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I saw the Angelina Jolie film Salt, today at the Motion Picture Academy and it was another full house. Personally I enjoyed this film much, much more than the popular Inception. The plot was riveting and Angie's performance was top notch and I'm so glad Tom Cruise, who was initially asked to do the film passed. The film came in at 99 minutes, almost half of what Inception ran. Salt makes Knight & Day look like a cartoon. It is your typical "White Hats vs Black Hats" plot, with a few excellent twists. The film shot in Washington and New York looked great with Billy Sarokin doing another outstanding job. The mix was simple and it wasn't filled or should I say, over f…
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Public Service Message: While it may not be the most fun activity I would encourage everyone to make sure there equipment list with serial numbers is up to date and complete in the event of theft, damage or an unexpected out of country job. I just spent the last two days inventorying every item I own and actually found a few things I forgot I had.
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What a great learning experience it was, teaching at the Media Workshops this last week. Smart, lively and attentive students, great facility and wonderful faculty and staff. My gratitude goes out to Glen and Colleen at Zaxcom, Karl at Lectrosonics, John Belgique at Comtek, Ron Meyer at PSC and of course the inimitable John Coffey. Thanks so much guys I couldn't have done half of what I did without your help and generosity. Thanks to Jeff for allowing me to impart his experience and philosophy to the students via DVD, and thanks to Mark Ulano and Larry Long for their help and support with the class material, (it's usually Mark's gig) You learn so much by teaching and …
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As I sit here with a potent drink, I thought I'd share the events of today and see if this is the norm...That is, if my still trembling hands will allow me to type it. About three weeks ago I wrapped on a movie. It's the third I've done for this particular director. This is by far the biggest production we've done, the first that didn't feel like a student film, and the first for either of us on the RED. I'm also doing the post sound, so today I went to his house to take a look at the first 20 minutes of rough cut. Now, on location I recorded to my 744T, but I also sent a feed to the camera for him to edit with. I had heard that RED's audio was...buggy...but for…
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Perhaps you can add to this thread...
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Okay, I know the subject line is enticing. This is a great, no, fantastic blog post by Josh Friedman: Screenwriter/Sarah Connor Chronicles exec producer/writer Josh Friedman posted this on his webblog (http://hucksblog.blogspot.com/) today: SLEDGEHAMMER AND WHORE This is the story of a Procedural. So I'm at a meeting with a producer the other day and he's pitching me a tv idea. As way of emphasizing why I need him and his idea, he brings forth a piece of paper. On it, my credits. He doesn't actually hand it over to me but he says this: (Grab a glass of wine, or scotch, sit down and read the rest): http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/josh-friedmans-real-life-tv-pro…
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I started reading Josh Friedman's blog and I'm hooked. It is very entertaining and extremely inside this crazy movie making Hi-Def making town. So I'm just going to post a few paragraphs and then link to them in an on going series (pardon the expression). Boy in the Bubble So where was I? Oh. Right. I had this little scary robot show and for whatever reason couldn't convince enough people that it was a) scary enough robot enough or c) in English. Add that dim sum combo of factors to a red bean paste of non-monetizable early adopters dvring the show like motherfuckers and now I'm unemployed. Everyone says having your show cancelled is like a death but I've bee…
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Hey guys, how's it going? I need your help on this one. I'm in a low bugdet movie that includes car shots on A Frame combined with quiet talkers and open windows. Yippee ki yay!!! I said to the director my concerns and nothing changed except from the fact that the actors talk a bit higher. What I also do is record wild tracks. For this one i started using CCM 41's but the background noise (exterior and specially interior) was too high through these mics that I eliminate them. I ended up using only lavs VT500. So, based on your experience how do you deal with situations like these in order to get good tracks? Best regards, Marco
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I decided. Late, but still. -- Jan
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I asked a question on Tuesday about my older TS-2 slate and 23.98, Charlie Parra answered me on Wednesday, I took my slate in on Thursday to be upgraded. I just got it back today, Friday, work completed! I drove out to Valencia to give them the slate and Charlie thought they could do the work and suggested that they might be able to ship it back to me (save me the drive) as early as Monday. So, less than 24 hour turnaround --- amazing. I'm impressed... and all this from a company that really has a product with little or no competition. They have the best product and the best support, period. - Jeff Wexler
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Yesterday I made one of the worst mistakes ever, could only have been worse if I had been on a job (but thankfully, or sadly, I was not). I was updating my Deva and it lost power and died right during the update. Well, it didn't actually lose power, I leaned down and pulled a breaker on my cart power supply but it was the wrong breaker! Really stupid and almost unexplainable considering the care and attention I have always given to updates in the past. The Deva had to go back to Zaxcom where it has been restored. The lesson, of course, is to really be mindful of the procedures, with your gear and your computers, to always have a good stable power source (and don…
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I would like to wish all my freedom loving brothers and sisters here in the USA and around the world a very happy and respectful 4th of July and all that it stands for as we toil to form a more perfect union. A lot of work and sacrifice is in our history and much work is ahead of us, but let us take this day off and celebrate the day and what it stands for. I am proud, humble, and lucky to be living in the USA. CrewC
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The British director Ronald Neame has died in a hospital in Los Angeles at age 99. He directed the film Poseidon Adventure and wrote the screenplay for Great Expectations.
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I'm attending a four weekend class for pro tools starting this Saturday, sponsored by local 695. I'm very excited by this as it will facilitate our occasional playback work ethic and also allow me to refine and update my home recording which to this point has always been with a Roland 16 track VS1680. I admit I have dwelt far too long in the comfort zone of familiarity and minimal effort and am now venturing into a world that I'm sure many of you have resided in for many years. If anyone else is attending please let me know and be sure to introduce yourself at the class. Mick
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Anyone experience a hijack on this site this morning ? As I clicked on "jwsound.net" I was redirected to "blackinternet.se" where an exe file "activate.exe" was trying to run. Norton Internet Security stopped the file from running and put in in quarantine. Anyone else have this experience ?
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Thinking about how lucky I was to have worked with Hal Ashby, to have known him and to have had some of the best experiences of my career. Norman Jewison, the director who gave Hal his start as a director after working as an editor, said that Hal was "the one that made me feel like I had finally become a filmmaker." I feel the same way.
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Here I am in 1976 holding the original Les Drever mic mount. It was beautifully made, particularly the handle and angle adjustment. It utilized bands of spring steel that supported the microphone clip assembly that sat on 2 soft rubber pucks (attached to the spring steel by epoxy glue --- this was one of the weak points of the design). It had excellent shockmount characteristics and was very light weight. Notice also that I am wearing bell bottom jeans.
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This may be of interest to many in our sound community, those who are committed to democratic representative unions, some of these things revealed in the website "Viewfinder Redux" put up by the most active members fighting for a representative union. The link below is to one of the blog posts from my old friend Alan Disler. Viewfinder Redux Note: the Camera "Guild" is really just a labor UNION... they changed their name to avoid anyone thinking they should function as a labor union, committed to securing the best Wages and Working conditions for its members.
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Posted on RAMPS by Charles Tomaras; http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/abc/tv_news_audio_op_detained_with_pot_at_obama_event_in_iowa_159751.asp?ver=full
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Just wanted to say how privileged I feel to have been on and survived ten years of CSI. It's been, and hopefully will continue to be, a great ride and a wonderful learning experience. I've seen three wonderful and outstanding boom men, Donavan Dear, Kenny Mantlo and Brian Whooley, go on to be outstanding mixers. I've lost a head of hair and countless arguments, I gained a little weight and countless experiences and appreciated every up and down that this job has presented. THis isn't a retirement speech, far from it. I hope they come on one day and find me dead in my chair, book open and Sunday Times crossword completed. I'm game for as many more seasons as they can throw…
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I got an email from the post supervisor on the TV Pilot I did. She says: "Hi Jeff, Just wanted to pass onto you that both the sound supervisor and the post sound mixers commented on what a great job you did for our pilot 'Untitled Goldberg/Gordon Project.' Your excellent work made our jobs a lot easier through the entire process. Thank you again for your diligence and your hard work. I hope to work with you again in the future. All the best, Fritzi" I was pleased to hear from the production as a follow up. I think we did an okay job, not great, but I am sure they have had to deal with a lot worse. Thank you to all those here who helped me with advice a…
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thanks, Richard
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Thanks to John and the other Coffeyistas for the interview with two of my production sound heros, Gene and Steve Cantamessa. They are The Cats, as far as I'm concerned. Philip Perkins
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Anyone know what's happened to David's site. All the links seem to go no where. Malcolm Davies A.m.p.s. (Production Sound Mixer.)
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http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix
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