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
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
Filmmaker Magazine have posted up a great interview with Production Sound Mixer Mark Ulano, who has been collaborating with Quentin Tarantino for 20 years. Phenomenally, they have managed to avoid any ADR in any of Tarantino’s films together in that time, which is quite a feat. Check out the interview at: http://filmmakermagazine.com/96680-20-years-of-collaborating-with-tarantino-with-zero-adr-production-sound-mixer-mark-ulano-on-the-hateful-eight/#.VwGpfxN96EJ
Back in August last year I thought I’d go relax a little after wrapping up a big audio post project by going out for a hydrophone recording in the local river. It was actually a really nice experience, as a platypus was hanging around. It is great to know that the Queanbeyan River is healthy and … Read more Platypus Recording in Queanbeyan River
A little while back I was interviewed in the CIT Woden Control Room by a few CIT students as part of ACTSIA’s Canberra Creatives series of profiles. The students did a great job (thanks Eddie, Vince and Jonathon) and you can check out a short profile here: Canberra Creative Presents Sound Engineer Tim Duck … Read more Canberra Creatives Profile
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
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/
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/
Dayne’s World took out the iView and Best Editing awards at Melbourne WebFest yesterday. Congratulations to Mike Nayna, Dayne Rathbone and all the rest of the crew that worked on it. It was a fun project to be involved with.
A few years back, Brent Heber, Australian Audio Post guy and Pro Tools expert/advocate, put together a short 20 minute video discussing the common mistakes made by fresh filmmakers with regards to sound. He starts by touching on the basics like choosing locations and microphones, before moving on to considerations for sync, timecode, and workflow. People new to filmmaking … Read more Film sound: common mistakes