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
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 Audible Range website have posted up a great article about the making of the original Star Trek sound effects, that includes a soundboard so you can sample the sounds on the site. Check it out at: http://audiblerange.com/categories/the-listening-life/kittens-kisses-and-razorblades-behind-star-treks-iconic-sounds/
Pro Tools Expert has been publishing some great posts discussing the process of conforming and re-conforming audio post sessions in Pro Tools. Here are the links to parts 1 to 3: http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2016/7/1/pro-tools-conforming-and-re-conforming-in-audio-post-production-part-1 http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2016/7/1/pro-tools-conforming-and-re-conforming-in-audio-post-production-part-2 http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2016/7/1/pro-tools-conforming-and-re-conforming-in-audio-post-production-part-3
Ever wondered what a Hollywood film budget looks like? Website The Smoking Gun has some interesting resources including a copy of the budget for M Night Shyamalan’s film “The Village”. The budget comes to over $70 million US dollars. According to IMDB, the gross box office income for the film came to over $110 million. … Read more The Village Film Budget
The MEAA’s draft market rates for screen industry crew are published here: Get Real On Rates Production Sound Mixer, Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor and Re-recording Mixers have a suggested minimum of $2,200 per week, with Boom Ops at $1,800 and other non-supervising sound editorial staff at $1,850. These rates are wages for time only, … Read more Get Real on Rates
Another older blog post from film-mixing.com discusses a few of the issues relating to doing a separate mix for DVD movie releases. The method for dealing with frame rate conversions for the audio from 24 to 25 fps is an interesting approach that I wasn’t actually aware of. Check it out at: Audio for DVD … Read more Audio for DVD
Using the LFE channel in 5.1 surround film mixing properly is an art and science in itself. Sreejesh at Film-mixing.com has written some great information about phase considerations and how he approaches the LFE in his film mixes. You can check it out at: https://film-mixing.com/2016/01/25/the-lfe-explanation/
Wired have posted up a neat little video feature of Skywalker Sound Foley Artist John Roesch. Check it out: Watch this on The Scene. http://www.wired.com/2016/04/skywalker-sound-foley-artist/
Gotham Sound, in conjuction with Tekserve and Avid, hosted a live event talk by the Production Sound Mixer and Supervising Sound Editor for the TV show Nurse Jackie. The show is based in a hospital environment primarily, which can be a challenging environment for sound. The talk discussed many of the aspects to capturing and producing great … Read more Sound for Nurse Jackie