It's a good thing we each have useful work in this society, Kevin.
Ever try to get a job as a natural sound consultant (even as an
informed intern) with a film company? After all, they know
everything. I've worked on over 135 major features and whenever I've
had the gall to suggest to a sound editor or director that one (or
more) of the sounds doesn't fit, I generally get kicked out of the
room - but not before being told "Nobody Will Know The Difference."
Ain't that a shame? Of the 135 films, I've only worked on two that
did things right. ("Shipping News" and a recent one for Warner Bros.
called "Duma" - shot in South Africa about a boy and a cheeta and
which has 81 minutes of well-positioned natural sound from this
library).
Bernie
>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
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>On Wednesday, December 7, 2005, at 08:17 AM, Richard Humphries wrote:
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>> 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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>> "Microphones are not ears,
>> Loudspeakers are not birds,
>> A listening room is not nature."
>> Klas Strandberg
>> Yahoo! Groups Links
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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