Brent,
You are to be saluted for your efforts to produce an authentic sound
track. So many producers are content to place the cliche warbling
vireo/hermit thrush recording into any neighborhood, beach, city, or
countryside they are filming. I believe I recall these birds singing
in England, a USA neighborhood, and Hawaii in the movie Pearl
Harbor! It's amazing how many Savannah Sparrows sing in suburbs on
TV commercials and movies while sticking to open fields and
countryside in real life.
Martyn Stewart tells me that the BBC has been outstanding in their
insistence on using authentic natural sounds for the habitat and
situation portrayed in film. They set a high standard rarely matched
by others.
Let me know if you need advice for the western USA. I hope some of
my east coast buddies will step up to the plate and help you with
this project. You might want to give more detail on the habitat you
are reproducing - neighborhood, farm, open country, deep woods,
coast, wetland? Each will have a signature sound.
Good Luck,
Kevin Colver
On Jul 2, 2008, at 6:01 AM, Brent Burge wrote:
> I'm working as the FX Sound Supervisor on a project set in
> Philadelphia in the 1970's, and as we are working on it here in New
> Zealand, we are determined to make the soundtrack as authentic as
> possible, within the constraints of distance, and 30 years of
> changing Philadelphia !
>
> In particular, I'm very interested in trying to find sounds that
> would evoke that period in the soundtrack, particularly in the
> Natural Ambiences - Insects and especially birds.
>
> I was wondering if anyone had any information as to the kinds of
> birds that might have been prevalent in the 1970's that we should be
> trying to focus on finding recordings of.
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> or if any of you could point us to a resource that could be of help
> to us.
>
> Thanks so much in advance.
>
> Brent Burge
> Supervising Sound Editor (FX)
> Wingnut Creative
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