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Short
Films
As
well as a steady raft of high-end commercials passing through the Digipost
Audio suites, the first four months of 2008 also saw three New Zealand Film
Commission funded short films through the DP audio rooms.
Short film mix days are fairly intense as with everything in the
short film world, time and funds are short. In the mix I try to create a
comfortable environment for people to get their projects completed without
technology getting in the way. I also like to keep the process flexible
enough so that directors and producers can keep their options open and get
the chance to listen and think things through properly.
These three
films were mixed in Dolby Digital for cinema. We also created Dolby Digital
DVD and television versions of the sound mix.
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This is Her
Passenger Films |
This Is Her is a dialog driven story with narrator from start
to finish. This made getting dynamics into the sound mix interesting as the
level of the film was set by the narrator. We also remixed the Golden Horse
song Why Don t I Feel for Dolby
Digital. The process ended up being helped by the fact that the album had
been mixed with pro-tools. We were supplied the original session files with
all the plug-ins and automation data which loaded onto our pro-tools system
giving us a great head start, especially as the song was made up of over 150
audio tracks.
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The Road Out Of Town
The Cartel |
The Road Out Of Town has quite an ambient feel about it, with very little
dialog replacement (ADR). We wanted to create a dynamic mix with a sudden
loud start to shake things up a-bit and set the tone. Over all this film
called for a less is more approach to keep it real. We worked hard to create
interesting textures and giving the sound field a wide, open and uncluttered
feel.
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Bridge Resolution
Films |
Bridge is mostly set in one location and the
entire dialog track was replaced (although I hope know-one would ever know) we
worked really hard on getting the perspective right. Creating close and
distant settings and making use of some fantastic convolution reverb
technology that allows you to capture a sample of an acoustic space (in this
case under and around a rail bridge) and apply that space to the recording. |
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The sound
tracks on all three films were a collaborative effort with sound, music and
pictures arriving from many different facilities (some of which are competitors
in the commercial world). These films presented us with a great opportunity
to work together and will led to more close working relationships for sound
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