Last night The Dollop came to Canberra and did a live show and podcast recording to a full house at Uni Pub. The podcast story focused on Mad Dog Morgan, a bushranger from the region. It was quite a fun telling of a dark story, filled with murders and poor pronunciations of Australian place names. … Read more The Dollop Live in Canberra
Here’s a great TED Talk on avoiding Death by PowerPoint: To summarise the main points: – Only have 1 message per slide; – Don’t have sentences and speak at the same time; – Consider visual heirarchy, allowing the important content to be biggest; – Contrast helps with focus. Use a dark background; – Have … Read more Avoiding Death by PowerPoint
The film is completed! Well it is for sound at least. Yesterday the Re-recording Mixer sat with the Director and watched through and did the final tweaks. Just a couple of music level adjustments really at that point, mainly to do with new music cues that got put in to replace other cues yesterday. All … Read more SB Feature Film Post Blog Post 12
There’s a great interview with Modern Family Production Sound Mixer Stephen Tibbo that has been posted up on the Designing Sound website. It discusses some of his approaches and gear, with some specific episode examples: http://designingsound.org/2015/08/interview-with-steve-tibbo-emmy-winning-production-sound-mixer-for-abcs-modern-family/
Yesterday we went into Arc Cinema at the National Film and Sound Archive for what was meant to be the final day of mixing. The Arc Cinema is a beautiful, well-specced 250 seater theatre in a nice art deco style. You can check out more about the theatre at: http://www.nfsa.gov.au/arc/arc-experience/ It was really great … Read more SB Feature Film Post Blog Post 11
Yesterday I sat with the Director and watched the whole film from start to finish. The main reason was check over all the sound editorial stuff and see where we are at with the mix. We both came up with some things to add or tweak as we went through, but overall it is sitting … Read more SB Feature Film Post Blog Post 10
You might have watched the credits of a movie and wondered how many people actually work on films. It can vary quite wildly of course, but Stephen Follows has done some research and compiled some interesting stats. Check out his post at: http://stephenfollows.com/how-many-people-work-on-a-hollywood-film/
British writer and producer Stephen Follows has a great blog that discusses the film industry, with a particular focus on the UK film industry. There are some great posts on there including one that breaks down the budget of a £1 million British indie film, Papadopoulos & Sons, including income up to the time that the … Read more A Peek inside an Indie Film Budget
Colossal published an article this week featuring the art of a guy who has bought large advertising billboards to “unvertise”. I like it. Check it out: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/07/brian-kanes-unvertisement-billboards/?mc_cid=84ef55c497&mc_eid=b70530c66d
Over the last few days I have pretty much completed the dialogue and effects pre-mix, with just a few sounds still to be slotted in. Last night I went to see the Composer to check where we are up to with music. At out Spotting Session I was advised that the music would hopefully be … Read more SB Feature Film Post Blog Post 9