Wow. Just wow. Great article, Walt; thanks.
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Walt <[email protected]> wrote: > Apparently, if I can come up with a script, I can get Lindsay Lohan. And > from there, all I need to do is launch a Kickstarter campaign and everything > will fall into place. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/magazine/here-is-what-happens-when-you-cast-lindsay-lohan-in-your-movie.html?ref=magazine&_r=2&pagewanted=all&; > > Shorty: http://is.gd/AxgbPL > > -- Walt > > > > On 1/10/2013 11:40 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >> Mark is correct of course. Much of the sound for motion pictures and >> high-end commercials is created in post. Back in the day when budgets of >> over a million dollars for a 30 second commercial were fairly common, almost >> anything was possible. This commercial was made on a budget of only 300K, >> but all of the sound was done in post at a Hollywood post house. The >> restaurant ambience used five or six different tracks. >> http://stenquist.org/Paul/Dodge.htm >> >> Frequently, actors voices are dubbed in after the fact as well. I shot >> some commercials with Ed Herrmann for Dodge, where he had to read a 24 >> second script while hitting about five marks on a stage where a car was >> being assembled. Of course Ed was working on a stage in Hollywood and the >> car was being assembled digitally at RGA in NY, so he was working on an >> empty stage. What's more, he was shooting episodes of The Practice the same >> day and hadn't even looked at the script. He couldn't get it right, and >> after 20 takes, he threw up his hands in surrender and defamed the memory of >> his mother. I brought him into a sound studio the next week and we >> overdubbed half of his lines. There's software designed just for that >> purpose that helps the operator sync copy with lip movements, and Ed, being >> the consummate pro, did some perfect reads that were closely matched to >> picture. When it was finished, I couldn't tell which lines were dubbed. I'm >> not particularly proud of the commercial. In fact, it sucks. But it was >> budgeted at close to a million. I never uploaded it to the web, but there's >> a crappy copy of the spot on the web that someone must have recorded off a >> very bad TV: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtuqsKkPGW8 >> >> Paul >> >> On Jan 10, 2013, at 8:06 AM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Walt wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks for all the info, Steve. >>>> >>>> I do think it's strange that ambient sound isn't usually recorded in >>>> stereo. I always just assumed that chirping birds, passing vehicles, >>>> etc. were recorded in stereo to give a more life-like feel. >>> >>> Keep in mind that Cotty is talking about news video production. For >>> movies, etc. not only are the chirping birds and passing trucks in >>> stereo, they're added in post-production with stock recordings and >>> foley artists. >>> >>> -- >>> Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia >>> www.robertstech.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
