the wikipedia article for sound design (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_design) is pretty comprehensive, and is nicely written. it doesn't cite any...
I thought it might be fun to light this little firecracker and throw it out into the sound-conscious ether... what do you think about it? In our ongoing effort...
A wonderful point, Randy. No more should filmmakers think of a sound job as "pasted on" to their creation. (Mark Mangini said some of them think of it as a...
I'd agree with all this Randy. I've been part of projects where the sound was thought out from the beginning and the whole film turned out to be a wonderful...
The sound process actually does begin quite awhile before it gets to me, it's just that it begins with a "picture" editor, and he/she is always the worst sound...
And then, the right shoes on the right surface can be functionary - or creative if there is some character suggestion, as in having delicate step for a man in...
The worst thing a director can do in most cases, is have the picture editor at the mix. All they want to hear is their Avid mix, and are mostly not interested...
I agree with all of this, and all the follow up threads. What I would add, from my very lowly standpoint (student and low/no budget films in Scotland), is that...
Hi there everyone... "Fix it in the mix".....cant tell you how many times i'v heard this expression and it infuriates me. Just the notion that we are "fixing"...
Well, maybe I'm in the minority, but I consider a big part of my job is to make bad dialog sound good. I have a problem with music editors/composers/picture...
Hi Marc, You are not alone in this regard. Even Walter Murch was asked to do what Harry Caul did in The Conversation, using those almost impossible devices to...
Wow...I might be opening up a can of worms here, but here 'goes anyway... Believe me, I hate (as much as the next sound supervisor) the dreaded "temp love"...
True, some picture editors... and by the way, that term comes from the fact that another word for the movie is the "picture," not because a "picture editor's"...
Like many here who work on lo/no/micro budget films most of my projects are repair gigs - trying to rescue horrendous production sound, doing ADR sessions with...
I think almost every sound in a film performs multiple functions, informational and emotional. A sound whose intended job is to make a moment seem "real" will...
In almost thirty years of mixing movies I think a picture editor has been present at every mix I've ever worked on. And yes, many are intensely territorial...
Yep, too many filmmakers cling to the fantasy that the sound people they hire can do magic to save their films. It's a convenient fantasy for them because it...
Hi dear List. Hi Randy, hi Pedro. I must say that over the years (14years now) on this bussines (audio- music, soundtracks and cinema) I end developing a kind...
Ricardo Cutz
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Jun 10, 2008 1:33 pm
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Hello all, and Welcome Ricardo I quote the end of the first mail from Randy on this topic, that I couldn't answer before. "The overwhelming majority of films...
Pedro Stelkic
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Jun 10, 2008 3:02 pm
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I dis have the opportunity of working briefly with director Peter Greenaway before I moved to LA on an interlocking session for his movie "Nightwatching". It...
But, I'm talking about picture editors who like to present themselves as experts on the soundstage. And certainly, there are picture editors who do a good job...
Hi Pedro, I completely desagree with you or I`m a complete fortuneted guy My last experience was "The dead girl feast", premiered in Cannes this year and the...
Ricardo Cutz
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Jun 10, 2008 5:35 pm
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Hi, Ricardo! Your reports about getting involved so early with sound design are wonderful to hear. I'm seeing similar things happening here too. Let's hope...
Hi Randy. Yeah. I`m glad your are happy. Your post make me thing that my conditions of work aren`t bad as I usually imagine it to be, :) I can`t tell it...
Ricardo Cutz
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Jun 10, 2008 8:35 pm
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I realize that the temp track that picture editors create is basically the equivalent of making notes with sound (effects or music), rather than writing them...
Howdy, What kind of databases do you all use or recommend for the non-sound management aspect of our jobs? Does anyone have experience with Wiredrive or...
Hi Ricardo I'm very glad that you can share with directors and editors the overall design of sound. What I said is that there is no person that actually is...
