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The Totem Pole
by Guest Mick- 9 replies
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1.19.07 Studio...early morning. A.D. "OK, Roll!" Boom man. "Let's wait for the heater to cycle down" A.D. "Rolling, rolling." Boom man. "We just need 10 seconds, it won't be long." Director. "Let's roll! Now!!" Boom man. "It's still noisy." A.D. "Gotta go, gotta go." Me. (via headsets) "Speed." Boom man. "Speed" 1st.A.C. "Marker." Director "....and...action...no, no cut, cut. There's a flyaway on her head, just there...see it?" A.D. "Cut, cut. Hair! Makeup!" Hair and makeup rush in and proceed to futz. Wardrobe joins the fray and rollers off invisible int from areas not even on camera. DP tweaks a light here and there. PA runs to…
Last reply by old school, -
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Since my incident on set last month, I've been reflecting on what could have been done to prevent this from happening. Two things stand out. First is this pervasive "F-Sound" mentality on many set's I've been on. Too many times any guy with a Canon 5D thinks they are gods gift to images which put a strain on the rest of the crew. Most times sound suffers the most as they go off an make a good demo reel of cool shots, but a crappy movie. In my case specifically, the DP is Italian and brags on set how he shoots MOS back home. That's great homey, but welcome to the USA it's called Sync Sound.. Check it out, it's been around a while! More so than egomaniacal DP's, I've come …
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Blog Post by Daniel Greenfield: Once again the movie industry is throwing itself a lavish party, one in a series of them, even though there is surprisingly little to celebrate. Movie attendance in 2011 hit a fifteen year low and while the industry isn't doing as badly as its counterparts in the music industry, beneath the greasepaint and glamor, it is panicking every bit as badly. There's still plenty of money to be made, but the industry has the clear sense that it has lost its audience. And it has. The movie industry began, as so much else, with the mass production of theatrical entertainment from classical drama to low vaudeville spectacle. Pu…
Last reply by Sean McCormick, -
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Love or hate President Obama, he did end the Iraq War and is bringing our brave troops home from that tragic mistake. One more to go Mr President. Happy Holidays to all. CrewC
Last reply by studiomprd, -
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I have had the pleasure n frustration of teaching others the art of sound recording for film. It is a long process that really only makes sense when one does it a few million times. Doing is learning. When I first started learning,(still learning), the craft, I had an advantage that most of the new generation does not. We had dailies. Shoot all day and on the following day at lunch or after work we saw n heard our work projected to a large screen and over a simi nice sound system. What a great way to learn what worked or didn't. Not just the sound. Picture, acting, story telling, directing, all of it. Better than any film school for learning all aspects of the craft. So …
Last reply by Nova, -
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Musing today on past jobs and crazy situations that I found myself in over the years. I thought it might be interesting to hear about the craziest most challenging, weird or just plain funny predicaments that we've encountered in our careers. I'm sure there are so many in each of our anecdotal arsenals that it would take a book, but just choose one that sticks out, so to speak. I posted some years ago about an Unsolved Mysteries that i did about Elvis's early years in which they hired a look alike based on the fact that he could, (so he said) play the guitar. Of course, having said whatever it took to get the job we find on location in Memphis that he hadn't a clue. I th…
Last reply by Jan McL, -
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I got to thinking about Sound Women after Peggy Names posted here yesterday. When I started out in 77, there were very few women working in sound. Peggy, DG Fisher, Sunny Meyers, Pam Raklewicz, were pioneers forging the path that most take for granted today. They faced very old school thinking and customs on the sets back then, but proved that they could do the job as well as anyone out there. Maybe even better. I had the good fortune to work with DG a few times, and Pam boomed for me for over a year n a half. We had fun and did as good a job as we were able. Walk on any commercial set these days in L A and there is a 60 to 70 percent chance the boom op is a woman. Th…
Last reply by Daniel McIntosh, -
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I'm sure I have talked about this before (but here goes anyway). Cameron Crowe and I discussed this thing where you hear a song and it immediately transports you back in time to a specific event or experience and it always seems to take you to the same place (usually NOT to the first time you heard the song but always to the same place). We call this The Theory of Definitive Listening, the moment in time that is defined by listening to the song). I had that moment today listening to "Start Me Up" on the radio --- instant transportation, in vivid detail and clarity, to the stage left wings of the huge set built at Sun Devil Stadium where we are filming "Let's Spend the Nig…
Last reply by Michael P Clark, -
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Sound Summit starts at 10am CDT April 22nd https://thesoundsummit.org/
Last reply by Patrick Tresch, -
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhdkAB1mqT0#t=56
Last reply by mikewest, -
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I feel blessed to have worked on a movie that has become my favorite of all time --- this scene specifically, my favorite sing-along scene that I have ever done. Thank you Cameron Crowe for the joy of working with you.
Last reply by Blair Morris, -
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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.
Last reply by Philip Perkins, -
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Earlier today, I posted "RIP Sidney Lumet", (http://jwsound.net/SMF/index.php?topic=8477.msg71580#msg71580). But I cannot stop thinking of all the great movies this man Directed and wrote as well. It is also sadly ironic that another New York filmmaker, Dennis Maitland, passed away last week. Dennis mixed three of Sidney's films "The Pawnbroker", "The Group", and "The Anderson Tapes". When I think of New York, I think of Sidney Lumet. Here is a fitting tribute by Pete Hammond, "A common thread in everything you will read about Lumet in the days to come will indeed be his service to writers and actors, as well as to New York City, a location he used many times i…
Last reply by old school, -
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It seems more and more that the blurring between our work lives, play, family and sleep, has come about with active and voluntary participation on our part. It is just a fact of our "modern" life.
Last reply by Don Barto, -
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So there I was, right after the film break before lunch and I see an error message on the mirror section of the Deva V readout. OK, nothing new, just erase the DVD and re-burn all the stuff we shot before lunch. Say what! The readout on the hard drive section now tells me that there is no longer any information on the hard drive. Huh? I only reformatted the DVD, nothing more. I look through all the partitions on the hard drive. Nothing, nada, bagel, zip. How can this happen? I called Glen who referred me to Howie who told me that there are some issues with the software version I have on my Deva. OK, good to know,you mighta told me when I upgraded it but better late than …
Last reply by John Blankenship, -
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My family and I have been doing lots of cool stuff this weekend. One of the things was going to the San Elijo Lagoon to check out the wildlife. On our way back we passed this open field were a bunch of hot air balloons were getting ready for flight. We parked across the street and I took this video. I've never seen them take off before. Just float in the sky from a distance.
Last reply by Marc Wielage, -
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I was having a office clear out and came across over a hundred what I call thoughts for the day. I used to hang a different one on the cart each day. Most I've made up during the endless hours waiting for D.o.p.'s to finish lighting and some I've nicked off other mixers and I thought this one was particularly poignant. The Sound Mixer's Prayer Lord, Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change and the courage to change the things I can and give me the wisdom and cunning to hide the bodies of the talent, directors, producers and production managers I've had to kill when they have really pissed me off. Malcolm Davies. A.m.p.s.
Last reply by JackHenry, -
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The call time today on "Rush Hour 3" was 7:30 am at Culver Studios. I got to the studio early, as usual (since it is only 15 minutes from home, lucky me), had some breakfast (For Stars Catering --- first class) and then midway through setting up for the day's work, Jaime, the 1st AD, called us all onto the set. Brett Ratner, our Director, was sick and would not be coming in today, so we were told we could all go HOME! I half expected that Jaime might say that Brett wasn't coming in but we would still shoot, shoot something, because I was at that moment thinking about whether we could shoot without the director. I know it rarely happens, but the reality is that the directo…
Last reply by tim apter, -
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“The Deep Note, the distinctive synthesized crescendo that is THX’s audio trademark, is one of the most iconic sounds in all of film. For the effects firm’s 35th anniversary, they’ve now shared the sheet music behind the sound.” https://io9.gizmodo.com/thx-just-shared-the-original-sheet-music-for-its-deep-n-1826357817 Cheers, Evan Meszaros
Last reply by al mcguire, -
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Has anyone fed the Red camera Time Code ? We're shooting at 24p, recording Audio at 24p, per the Red camera people's advise, and trying to feed it TC, it drifted by about a second, even while staying plugged in, disconnecting and re-jamming.... ? I know 23.98 was initially the only TC that the RED would accept, but we're on Build 15 and since the RED people assured us that it now should accept 24p from Audio recorder, we can't figure out why it's not working.
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Last reply by garybruckner, -
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James Corden drives around London in the rain with Adele, singing to playback. Well done, WAY fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_3070556225&feature=iv&src_vid=O6REBmZ0NDY&v=Nck6BZga7TQ
Last reply by Doc Justice, -
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Hello, Soundies -- A project I'm prepping has a scene with Rush Limbaugh (or, a reasonable facsimile), and I'm hoping to find a good-sounding, good-looking version of his microphone - the legendary GOLD ElectroVoice RE-20. I hope there's one out there that I might rent - please tell me ! Thanks -- Glenn Berkovitz glennb@pobox.com (Hollywood)
Last reply by Rick Reineke, -
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Of course everyone is knocking TC in this part (some of the meaner comments talk about "midget rock", etc.) but I think it looks pretty amazing. from some magazine site: "The first look at Tom Cruise as womanizing rocker Stacee Jaxx in Adam Shankman’s big-screen adaptation of the Tony-nominated Broadway musical Rock of Ages has hit the Web on Tom Cruise . com The ’80s are in full effect with a backlit, shirtless Cruise sporting long hair for the character, who, in the stage show, sings Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or Alive” and is a part of other numbers including “I Wanna Know What Love Is.” "
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