The NewActon South building in Canberra has a comfortable little 35 seat theatre in the ground floor that is used by residents and can be booked for events and screenings. They have a reasonable rate for local filmmakers, and I have been to a screening of a local short I worked on there in the … Read more Kendall Lane Theatre
I have blogged about loudness for the web and mobile devices before (Mixing Levels for Mobile Devices and Online Music Loudness), and things are slowly starting to become a bit more standardised. The AES Technical Council released a recommendation paper late last year which is fairly in line with stuff I have previously included in my blog, … Read more More on Loudness Standards
Clapham Common Tube station in London has had all of it’s advertising spots taken up currently by The Citizens Advertising Takeover Service – a project undertaken to swap out the huge amounts of advertising with cute images of cats in order to reduce the effect of the ceaseless onslaught of advertising. Check out an article and … Read more The Citizens Advertising Takeover Service
While Queanbeyan has been in the news fairly recently due to “the potential for partially treated sewage material” to flow from Queanbeyan’s water treatment plant into the Molonglo River and on into Lake Burley Griffin, there is another water quality issue in our region that really should be brought to some more people’s attention and … Read more Queanbeyan River Rubbish
I got a little time to go out for some field recording the other weekend around the Burrill Lake area (just south of Ulladulla) on the south coast of NSW, where I found a great sounding patch of frogs in the Meroo National Park. I stumbled across them almost by luck during the afternoon, and … Read more Frogs of Meroo National Park
Production Sound Mixing by John J. Murphy is almost the only book I can think of that is dedicated wholly to the art of recording sound for screen productions. The only other I can think of is Location Audio Simplified by Dean Miles, which I have read in interactive eBook format. In Production Sound Mixing, … Read more Book Review – Production Sound Mixing by John J. Murphy
Way back in 2000 legendary film and film sound editor Walter Murch wrote an interesting article discussing the role of sound for film. He starts with a reflection of the importance of the sound role in the early days of sound films, and goes on to discuss sound design theory. Check it out on the … Read more Stretching Sound to Help the Mind See
The current ArchivesACT Find of the Month is about a $35 million film studio complex that was planned for the ACT in the early 1980’s, that never quite came to be. Check out details at: http://www.archives.act.gov.au/find_of_the_month
No Film School have posted up an interesting article discussing the film editing techniques of David Lean (Editor/Director of Lawerence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and The Bridge on the River Kwai). Sound is a careful consideration here, and really needs to be considered write from the script stage to enable some of these techniques to … Read more Cutting on Sound
Since it is Olympics time, someone posted up a link to an interesting article from last Olympics discussing some of the techniques that broadcasters use for “sound design” in the Olympics and televised sports in general. They are quite interesting. Check them out at: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/how-the-gorgeous-sometimes-fictional-sound-of-the-olympics-gets-made/259742/ http://www.fast-and-wide.com/more/wideangle/2697-the-sound-of-sport-what-is-real