Boomboom Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Pablo: right on: ''In this cases good communication with your director (who in this case happens to be the shooter as well), and understanding what they want/need to capture to tell the story is essential. I'd say that in this particular show your sound is only as good as your director will allow it to be.'' Justan: it's 22nd today... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hemmerlinj Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Did a shoot in newspaper printing facility. There are no quiet places. Unless you leave the place, and that kind of defeats the point. They also had some sort of wireless system for the communications between machines and computers. And it being in a big metal building. Wireless was a pain in the a$$. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justanross Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Pablo: right on: ''In this cases good communication with your director (who in this case happens to be the shooter as well), and understanding what they want/need to capture to tell the story is essential. I'd say that in this particular show your sound is only as good as your director will allow it to be.'' Justan: it's 22nd today... Yes I know! I get to go home for acouple days then I'm back out here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirror Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Try a tuna canning factory. Good times...good times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Blankenship Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Indy 500... trackside... in the pits... during the race... Of course, I've also been in the celebrity suites with Jack Nicholson and other notables during the race -- best view you can get and a catered buffet. Not complainin'. Then, there's the National Drags, standing just a few feet away from one of them top fuel babies takin' off. Yikes! It vibrates your entire body violently from the inside out -- I've never felt anything quite like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Wielage Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Try a tuna canning factory. Good times...good times. As long as it's the SUBWAY Tuna! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Feeley Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 As long as it's the SUBWAY Tuna! I guess this should go in a "cheap-ass producers" thread, but my concern is we will be told, "I think this dead fish is tuna... I found it on the tracks of the subway." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berniebeaudry Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 As long as it's the SUBWAY Tuna! I hate Subway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisH Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 I am currently crammed into the central bunk of a party bus with 12 drunk reality cast members reecording to two 788ts while we drive 2 .5 hours to Jacksonville. When we get there we get out and go to live active bars where they get drinker. Nuff said... Ugh I can't wait for the feature I'm doing in march! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Reilly Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Chris, is it pure cacophony monitoring all that? Do they have tunes playing as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hemmerlinj Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 Did a shoot yesterday in Battery Park. Right on the water. Every ferry service has a boat coming in and out. Planes flying out of Newark and or landing at JFK or La Guardia flying constantly and directly overhead. And those damn helicopters flying over. Another shows up just as the sound of one fades away( I believe they flyover on purpose to see what we're doing). Now if this was a reality shoot I would have been fine. Untalented people tend to talk much louder. But this was scripted and it was a very intimate scene, complete with the tears flowing and the whispers of endearing comments. I wish I had my sound level meter. I have no doubt that the talent's voice level was lower than the noise floor at this location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason porter Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 Just shot in the engine room of an oceanliner. Extremely loud, hot, greasy, stinky and easy to get lost. The only thing worse was a steel mill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimMansen Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 Had to do a stand-up at a large factory with enough background noise to make regular conversation difficult. Our concened producer asked if there was any chance that we could use the audio. I said it would be really tough. (It was done long before such wonderful plug ins were available). I used a Sanken Lav on my Lectro transmitter. Boom would have just pointed at the noise in the BG. I told him to do the piece twice. One with actor in waist shot and again with tight head shot only. I told him he could probably use the close shot. He was dubious but later commented to me that it was amazing how much better the sound was with the close up view of the actor talking. "You could hear him much better". To me a interesting lesson learned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Smith Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 Damn, maybe somebody can develop an app like tthat for all locations! --S Today the Disney Broadcast engineer showed me how he can turn sounds like 'atmosphere music' on/off with his phone. We were on main street, and he said watch this.. a few pushed buttons on the iPhone, and WHAM.. background music went off on main street. He said he can control lights too.. including the castle lights. All for filming related items. Wow... that rocked. -Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zack Posted March 2, 2012 Report Share Posted March 2, 2012 My worst location ever so far was the interior of a KRAFT plant. Average SPL was 95dbu. Best was Mojave in the middle of BFE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Wielage Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 I love the SPL meter apps available for the iPhone. That way, if we're in a loud location, and the director asks me if this is going to be a problem, I just show him the phone readout. Then I say, "going into the Red is very bad." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zack Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 I love the SPL meter apps available for the iPhone. That way, if we're in a loud location, and the director asks me if this is going to be a problem, I just show him the phone readout. Then I say, "going into the Red is very bad." That's exactly what I did that day too, but did they care? Lol hell no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harris K Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 An active Dave and Busters. They killed a couple machines, but drop in a lake. Me and the producer still high-five because they did no adr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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