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Just a short note to mention that I awoke this morning to the news of the tragedy in Christchurch, NZ. My immediate thought was of our friend Mike Westgate. I mailed him immediately, and he is safe and OK (he is, of course, based in Aukland, North Island). What a week of world events!! Kindest regards to all, simon b
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Am I the only one doing this? Instead of futzing around breaking down the Deva, comtek, wirelesses and a mini mixer to go and sit in the front with the driver, I had our friendly yet constantly ribbing grips load my whole cart on the insert car. No fuss, zero hold up and I had everything at my disposal that I would have on a non moving location. They secured me in with some speed rail and ratchet straps and other than some wind issues with my antennas, it went very smoothly. We rarely have insert car work but whenever it's called for in the future that's the way I'm doing it.
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Location sound mixing is out of the question. I can barely walk. Missed some serious work. ): Anybody else ever had herniated discs?
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Just curious if any other folks have days like this. Took on a small job, two day shoot, pilot for a reality show. Involves a small business, it’s owner and 3 employes. Very customer focused , with a diversity of very interesting customers from all over the world buying items or having a very specialized serviced provided for them. Anyway , producer / camera op #1 arrives with his 2 Cannons ( black cameras that shoot HD have XLR ins , no TC ) Pops them up on tripods, one is to be static and he is going to move around with camera 2 on tripod. I try and find a place to set up, place is small, wire up owner and 2 of the staff, test all mics, run snake to 1 camera, al…
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Is anyone else having problems accessing local 695's website?
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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 …
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Hey guys... So today was a FUBAR day for me. Working Sundance with a bag system and xdcam. Shooting parties and the like. Anyways 3/4 through the day my camera op says the audio sounds weird. I was sending audio via a hop so I plug into the camera and listen. FUBAR. TOTALLY screwed. Anyways is was my fault. Had the level on the SR to high and didn't realize it. Tone from the mixer was great. Was rushed and didn't take a good listen from the camera on voices. Long story short we are re-shooting some interviews and stand-ups tomorrow. And I feel stupid. Moral of the story : Always make sure your levels are right.(duh) Always make sure the ca…
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Very pleased to see Larry Fisher here --- Welcome! As for R.A.M.P.S. party at NAB becoming JWSOUND.NET party, this is something I would not like to see. The R.A.M.P.S. tradition should go on even as the R.A.M.P.S. usenet group loses some of its luster. That said, this year I will be unable to make it to NAB --- working on a movie that won't wrap until late April. - Jeff Wexler
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My daughter attends UCLA. She knew I wanted a UCLA ball cap, but frugal as she is (nothin' wrong with THAT trait in a college student!), she wouldn't pay the $50 or whatever it was for a bonafide hat for her dept. (Theatre/Film/TV). So she made me one--I now have a UNIQUE UCLA ball cap, that all the other UCLA dads can just go ahead and be jealous of. She even hand-embroidered the letters "TFT" on the back, like the real ones have. phil p
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"What kind of a peace do I mean and what kind of a peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and build a better life for their children–not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women–not merely peace in our time but peace in all time." - John F. Kennedy, June 10th, 1963
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When I agree to do a job, I am hired to do the sound recording for a given project. A simple concept most would say, but what obligation do I have to be filmed doing my job as a part of another media project related to my gig or used at some point in time in ways not yet determined or thought up? What side of the camera am I on? What side is the important one? The reason I ask this is the ever present "behind the scene's crew" shooting us shoot the commercial. It used to be this happened w name talent Super Bowl type spots every now and again. That was then. Now these mostly nice folks are shooting us shoot on many mundane everyday spots. Maybe 50% of the jobs I do have t…
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Funeral this week for a grip friend of mine--very well known guy in the SF film community. In addition to family and non-work friends there was a sizable contingent of movie crew people, who mostly ended up sitting together. It was a nice, sombre, Catholic mass. When, during the priest's homily, a plane flew over the church, several crew people, out of habit I guess, glanced at me: that location production "are we gonna cut?" look, and then realized how absurd that was.....we smiled to ourselves. phil p
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A first for me today. I worked with a cameraman who wasn't born when I started out.
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http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7392161/
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I have just read the absolute best interview ever with my father, Haskell Wexler. Anyone interested can read it HERE - Jeff Wexler
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I ate a little humble pie at the start of this season. Up to now in my hubris I have always stood firm on the fact that I consider myself a mixer not a recordist and so have, for the most part, shunned the use of ISO tracks except where absolutely necessary. Now that post have mandated the use of ISO tracks whenever wires are used I have seen first hand how they can assist the dialogue editor in assembling a clean track thereby circumventing the application of looped dialogue to the scene. Sometimes. Along with my education in the use of pro tools this lesson has moved me further into the realm of modern recording techniques and loosened my grip on traditional methods t…
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http://www.reverbnation.com/store/view_item_merch/artist_390948?item_id=365434&merchprice=22.99 Your thoughts? Ty
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I had a shoot at madame tussaud. They did not want to stop the AC while shooting 1 2
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I dont think they make the statues from Wax anymore but the the museum manager refused to shut the ac off. And It was the noisiest AC I have ever heard. The shoot was yesterday and today production is complaining about the AC. Whos fault is it?
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From Deadline Hollywood and Nikki Finke: Reliable sources tell me that Eddie Fisher has died. He was 82. The singer and entertainer and TV star of his own show and co-star of films Bundle Of Joy and Butterfield 8 had his heyday in the 1950s. In 1953 Fisher was given his own 15-minute TV show called Coke Time, sponsored by the Coca-Cola company; it was so popular that Coke then offered Eddie an unprecedented $1 million contract to be their national spokesperson. But Fisher is best known for having been married to Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, and Connie Stevens and for fathering multitalent Carrie Fisher and TV actress Joely Fisher. He created quite the worldwide sca…
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I was in negotiation for a reality show. It was following 8 women around las vegas. Production wanted only one boom direct cable to camera and no wireless because they did not want to spend the extra buck. I told them that it would be very difficult next to impossible and refused to do it. They hired somebody else. Today I get an email from production pretty much laughing and making fun of me, saying it is working just fine with one boom. Are these people serious?
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I'm sure I'm not alone in hating certain aspects of sound recording. Marydixie, my boom op, hates people kissing or eating food. Lips smacking drives her nuts. Not much of a drive, but still.... I have a long list of peeves when it comes to recording actors. Here are two. # 1 is actors who when they say action all but swallow their voice and push no air at all. No one in life talks like this. When I see/hear this, which is all the time, I see them acting and it is more apparent than they suspect. Amateur hour IMO. The noise floor roars as the mumble core their way through a scene that the other actors can't even understand and they start mumbling as well. #2 actors wh…
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Screenwriter-producer Irving Ravetch died yesterday at Cedars Sinai Hospital of a lingering illness. He was 89. Ravetch and his wife and writing partner Harriet Frank Jr were nominated for two Academy Award for writing Hud (1963) and Norma Rae (1979). They co-wrote eighteen other films, including Hombre, Conrack, The Rievers, The Long Hot Summer, The Sound and the Fury, Home From the Hill, The Cowboys, Murphy’s Romance and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. In addition to co-writing Hud, Hombre and The Rievers, Ravetch also served as a producer on them. Ravetch, who was born Nov, 14, 1920, in Newark, N,J., is survived by his wife Harriet Frank, Jr. as well as his sister…
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This is from the deep pocketed environmental group "Heal The Bay".
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