ianreynolds1

This is really interesting. Thanks! I never thought I'd willingly listen to the sound of a wireless going out of range.

I agree with literally everything you've all said. I just watched it again right now. I don't know if I've ever felt so excited about something, at least not that I can think of recently. That bird of pray trick is awesome, too. Good for them! Doug - is this the video you've mentioned? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoYq2bDaGt4 Soundpod - You're right in a way! I was reading last night that they built in cut points like the chopper, just in case, but it turns out they didn't need to use them. Eric Ledet - my sincere congratulations goes out to you, as well as Geoffrey, Jeff, and Chris Cooper. This show is fantastic in every way. CM - I agree totally with the failure to notice, at least right away. About halfway through it popped into my head but I couldn't pull myself away long enough to realize, until I re-watched it afterwards. Marc - I agree about the work of the VFX crew, and should add the Audio Post team did a fantastic job as well - there were multiple layers of dialogue and effects, bullets whizzing past, the ringing of the ears, and so on. I'm glad we all seem to be in agreement!

Not to spoil anything for those that haven't seen it - but I just watched the 4th episode of True Detective, and I wanted to say that in addition to the gripping tension of the final scene, it was also technically fantastic. IMDB tells me that Jeffrey Humphries was the Boom Op, but doesn't say who the mixer or other on-set crew were. Christopher McGuire was the steadicam operator as well. As a youngster it's incredibly inspiring in addition to the drama I mentioned. Regardless, if any of you come across this post, I just wanted to say congratulations on a fantastic scene, possibly my favourite one in years.

Marc, and others, your responses are all so much more measured and respectful than what I was thinking reading that post. "What, are you stupid or something? Are you serious?" That's all I could think of. I started doing this the middle of last year, and I'm so thankful all of you here are so knowledgeable to read, especially when reading that post. Yeesh.

Thank you for the updated info

It was especially terrible on the new Arrested Development. Sorry if anyone here worked on it. I don't mean the quality of the audio itself was terrible, I mean the fact that, as you said, former president Bill Clinton, they regularly had the shoulder actor's dialogue clearly not in sync.

With this being more traditional music video-y, how would they do the sound on this one? Just the traditional FOH mixer type set-up, and record from there?