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I'm working on a simple challenge short and am having a pickle of a time just fooling around with the audio editing cleaning up inhalation breaths, tongue clicks, filtering out background noises, adjusting for tonality and monkeying with timing.
All that for a voice over.
I'm bracing myself for the day I gotta actually collect audio on a live set and hope the actors are professional enough to not require more than five takes just to deliver their lines well enough for me to make a edit.
I've yet to even begin a challenge involving actors, multiple sets, props, SFX, lighting, boom pole mics w/ operators and a DP. But I'm giving it a whirl this fall. Maybe. If I don't puss out.
Trying to make something look good (AKA, trying to communicate a story WELL) is complex as sh!t.
I'm working on a simple challenge short and am having a pickle of a time just fooling around with the audio editing cleaning up inhalation breaths, tongue clicks, filtering out background noises, adjusting for tonality and monkeying with timing.
All that for a voice over.
Been there. On one short, I became so obsessed with the voice over (recorded with not quite the best mic in the world) that I rewrote it. I re-wrote it in order to remove as many words with the letter 'P' as possible. That 'P-popping' is a bitch!
Anyhoo, I'm gonna give Old Wounds a read. When I was house-hunting (as a first time home buyer) I actually saw similar bathrooms. And yeah, kids lived in those houses. I now take a bottle of handwash wherever I go.
On one short, I became so obsessed with the voice over (recorded with not quite the best mic in the world) that I rewrote it. I re-wrote it in order to remove as many words with the letter 'P' as possible. That 'P-popping' is a bitch!
Just buy a pop filter? I picked one up for my mic for about £8.
Those pictures are pretty mind-blowing, Pia! Can't imagine how you were feeling when you realised what condition the place was actually in - probably like you'd just been dunked in that bathtub. Hope you got something to make the trip worthwhile, and hope that poor cat gets better soon...!
I think the biggest problem with screenwriters today is a lack of understanding of the filmmaking process.
The clarion of experience sounds!
Honestly, increasing familiarity with filmmaking from screenwriting on forward skews the creative writing process completely different than some of the pie-in-the-sky writing I'm blatantly guilty of myself.
So many things can kill a films quality. Everything can go right except for the sound and the whole thing is ruined. Ditto that for bad acting and bad editing. IMHO, great editors are true magicians. In my case there may not be enough material to make magic with.
Sound is hugely important and I can honestly say that I very seldom have a problem with it. The mic I have is expensive, but excellent. Very much worth the money. I've worked with other mics, but we always end up using the Sennheiser shotgun. I once recorded a fisherman talking while we were going full speed on his airboat!!
And I agree Breanne. I look at scripts differently now. Not if the story is good or bad, but certain things will stand out as I think of them actually being filmed.
Another thing is that I wrote this script. I'm the producer and director. I had a clear picture in my head how this was going to look. Then I had to adjust to what I actually had to work with and the film doesn't even look close to what was in my head while I wrote it and in pre-pro. I'm saying this to give some writers an idea of why their script might not turn out on film as it did in their heads while writing. It's not necessarily that the people making the film saw it differently than you, but most likely they had to adjust to what they had available to work with.
Btw, we might go back and try to get some more shots this weekend. Only problem is I thew "Stuart's" shop shirt away and we don't have the tux nor the Mustang....