Yep,
It horrifies me almost every time I watch a nature video, popular
movie, or TV show. I can't believe how extensive is the spread of
singing Hermit Thrushes throughout the world (yea right.) Even
prestigious productions such as "Nature" don't seem to get it right at
times. (Example: a documentary on wild horses in Montana had all the
right bird species but they put them into the background in an autumn
shot when the singing birds are nearly dead silent.) It wouldn't take
much for a nature sound consultant to help these people at least chose
the right background sounds from their sound effects library to fudge
with. There doesn't seem to be much interest in getting right though.
I appreciate you Richard for being one who is trying to get it right.
Kevin Colver
On Wednesday, December 7, 2005, at 08:17 AM, Richard Humphries wrote:
> I use the recordings that I have made in my work as a Sound Designer
> and Mixer for television. I work on a lot of documentaries, nature or
> otherwise, and I have a large collection of sounds I've recorded in
> addition to several of the major commercial sound effects libraries
> that I use to "sweeten" the soundtrack of the program.
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> It would probably horrify most of you to find out what we do behind
> the scenes of a documentary, in terms of realism (though you probably
> already know). Unfortunately, these days, budgets and timelines have
> become ridiculously small, so we usually have to make do with whatever
> we have on hand. (I used to get two or three weeks to work on the
> sound for a 1 hour documentary. Now I get about 3 to 5 days!)
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> I try to be as accurate as possible given the circumstances and I
> spend my free time recording sounds to help me in that effort.
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> -Richard Humphries
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> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
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