> What is the Beeb's coverage??
Klas,
Unfortunatly the BEEB has changed from my day where every film crew
had a Sound Recordist. Now the Director or anyone "does the sound"
because you can do that with video. There has been a steady change in
blockbuster series like Attenborough's up to the present day when only
the pieces to camera seem to be shot with sync sound. Most of the
sound track is now laid wildtracks, which is easier and cheaper, and
the sounds are sometimes wrong. An example the other day was a wallaby
with the foot noises when it took off, not when it landed.
Music now chokes the sound tracks and is often inappropriate, which is
a return to Johnny Morris in the 50's an 60's who made the animal
noises himself. It seems that specialist wildlife sound recordits are
now too expensive for a more general sync sound coverage.
I have to say that the laid sound tracks are often very well done. For
instance a bird peeping away in a telephoto shot with nice close
sound, carefully cut into sync. It's like singers miming - you can
always tell because it is too good.
I have to admit being taken in with Attenborough's mimicking lyrebird
which I mistakenly thought was in Papua New Guinea as stated instead
of in Adelaide Zoo and was called Chook.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-29/lyrebird-dies-chook-adelaide-zoo/3750=
944
"Chook became a YouTube star after he was filmed imitating
the sounds of construction work, which he probably picked
up as the zoo's panda enclosure was being built in 2009."
"He was hand raised so he was quite human habituated. That
sort of gave him some special abilities as well. He was a
lot braver with humans because he was so used to them."
When Chook died about a year ago it had extensive obits, but had
obviously been taught its mimicking of cameras and chainsaws while in
captivity, not in the forests.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DKOFy8QkNWWs
David
David Brinicombe
North Devon, UK
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