Hi,
I am happy to see some discussions generated due to me sharing the preview
of my film "Leopards: The Last Stand". The preview can be seen here:
http://youtu.be/n-Yc5VNUN-o
I agree that Natural soundscapes of the place should be preserved and shown
in a film. However, I would like to draw your attention that in a country
with more than 1.21 billion people, the wilderness areas of India are not
as pristine as it used to be. Most of the places you can hear generators
running all the time to draw ground water for irrigation. Our muddle headed
forest department often tries to fill up water holes by pumping out ground
water. In such situations, when I record sound, a lot of times even with
the shot gun and parabolic microphones, I am getting noise. As a filmmaker,
I make a considered choice to edit out portions where I have got such
noise. I am also trying to place microphones closer and hope the action is
near the microphones. The music often hides the flaws ie. the low sound of
some generators at a distance. Also, in situations where I have shown a
carcass and flies, the sound of flies may make some people uneasy. So I
have kept the music there. I would love to hear your views on this.
I feel a foley artist cannot reproduce all the sounds that the animals
produce. The reason being, we simply don't know much about their
vocalisations. For example in my short here the vocalisations of leopards
in conflict situations are different. http://youtu.be/n-Yc5VNUN-o
These are not just growls.
I had done this preview to go with my review of the C300 camera (
http://www.indiawilds.com/diary/review-canon-c300-for-wildlife-filming/ ).
So it may appear as a commercial for Canon to some people. However, this is
my own production with my own money. It is a different matter that Canon
India now wants to use this for showcasing their camera.
Please continue giving your views and critiques.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Avocet <> wrote:
> **
>
>
> > 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/3750944
>
> "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=KOFy8QkNWWs
>
> David
>
> David Brinicombe
> North Devon, UK
> Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - Ambrose Bierce
>
>
>
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