Chris Polczinski

Of all the TV/Film I watch Mrs. Maisel (especially ep 201) is phenomenal. Not sure how much ADR there was but I'm very impressed by the overall sound. The long steadicam shots must have made it fun.

"What are you doing?" -Editor "Shooting a plate" -Me "What's a plate?" -Editor "Can we turn down the camera fan? Maybe to adaptive mode" -Me "No I dont want to overheat the camera" -DP (I've had good luck with DPs lately)

Had this DP tell me over and over that his friend works for Skywalker Sound and says that all smoke machine noises can be taken out. The director (his friend) was really pleased by that and never listened to my 2 cents Haha. Guess it doesnt matter the frequency of the machine, proximity to mics, or proximity to frequency of the actors voice at all. Thanks DP. Recently worked on a movie where every time the aliens would make clicky/chirpy noises the actors would react. We shot about 15 pages near a construction site in a quarry where frogs were mating. Similar to above, I kept getting asked "does the construction kill us?" I'd say "if not the frogs would" and vice versa.

Hey guys. Ive been reading the "Production Sound & Video" magazing that the 695 mailed me and I'm hoping I can start an educational conversation about the auctioning of 600MHz. The following is my understanding of the matter and I want to obtain clarification on the subject. The demand for more spectrum has risen in cell phone companies to try and keep up with the rising tech demand. These cell companies know that their products work better at higher frequencies which also keeps the phone/antenna smaller. Congress, in order to make money, wants to auction off the 600MHz band thinking these cell companies want it. But the lower frequencies cause antennas to be too big for normal sized phones. The transmitting antennas also become much bigger in this case. Not only that, but congresses bad idea to auction 600MHz wont make enough money for it to be rewarding. These cell companies are going to have to pay to make their phones bigger and to change their transmitting antennas and the government will have to pay the TV stations to relocate away from the 600MHz. So instead of just switching everything around and having the government lose money, why not just let the cell phone companies use frequencies up to 5GHz? These are just my first thoughts as I read the article. Im hoping some well-versed RF gurus can chime in. It's very interesting. -Chris