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Nine ways to create a world class sound mix for your film

By on March 7, 2013 in Sound

Last night I saw ‘Sinister’, a horror movie directed by Scott Derrickson. It freaked me out. Plain and simple. And it has stayed with me too. And believe me, I have seen my fair share of horror movies. So what was so terrifying? The soundtrack. The score by Christopher Young was heart bangingly original. Add [...]

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How To Record Your Own Foley Tracks At Home

By on November 7, 2012 in Sound

Having reviewed many of the films for 50 Kisses, one common thread is emerging. A lack of solid audio post production, and in particular, a lack of foley. The video above gives you a really good overview of a professional foley artists job – and you can do the same too. Foley tracks are created [...]

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That Syncing Feeling!

That Syncing Feeling!

By on April 29, 2008 in 35mm print, Sound

Today I took the 35mm print of Gone Fishing to Videosonics for the guys who did the sound mix to check out. We had previously screened at Cinesite (for picture) where we thought the sound may have been out of sync. After checking today, I can now confirm that there are in fact no problems [...]

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Viewing the first 35mm print

Viewing the first 35mm print

By on April 24, 2008 in 35mm print, Grading, Sound

I have just returned from the very first 35mm screening of Gone Fishing – EVER! Even though we shot 35mm, we scanned and post produced digitally, and even premiered digitally. But to get the film out to the ‘world film festival circuit’, we needed a 35mm print. Mitch Mitchell at Cinesite stepped in and did [...]

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Soundtrack for Cannes

Soundtrack for Cannes

By on April 3, 2008 in Post Production, Sound

One of the problems with presenting Gone Fishing out in the world is that the soundtrack is very dynamic. The loud bits are very loud, the quite bits are very quite. Great if you are in a cinema, not so great if you are in a noisy café in Cannes! To combat this, I have [...]

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Mastering new BluRay at Abbey Road Studios

Mastering new BluRay at Abbey Road Studios

By on March 15, 2008 in BluRay, Sound

I just had a strange experience. I set up a meeting with BluRay guru Richard Osborne at Abbey Road Studios and tubed over – I hadn’t realised just what a Mecca that zebra crossing outside the building is to Beatles fans and tourists. I had to fight my way past giggling groups of Japanese women [...]

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Dolby Digital MO disk collected

Dolby Digital MO disk collected

By on March 10, 2008 in Post Production, Sound

Last Friday I collected the MO disk of the Dolby Digital 5.1 mix for the 35mm prints of Gone Fishing. I had a brief glimpse into the Dolby transfer bay, which was a surprisingly compact room, looking more like a machine room at a small post production company than an audio lab. But then I [...]

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Translating Gone Fishing

Translating Gone Fishing

By on February 23, 2008 in Sound

Translating Gone Fishing has turned into both a bigger job than expected, but at the same time, easier job than I feared, mainly due to the incredible help I have received. Subtitle Workshop has proved to be a great little free tool, a little clunky in places, but nonetheless, it does what it says on [...]

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PAL DVD of Gone Fishing Complete

PAL DVD of Gone Fishing Complete

By on February 15, 2008 in DVD, Software, Sound

Yesterday I completed the PAL DVD for ‘Gone Fishing’. This DVD is for showing to festival co-ordinators and people who may be interested in the new features I am writing. For now, it won’t be available to anyone else, not even my family! (as I explained on the blog before, we need to keep tight [...]

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Final Mix Tweaked and Complete!

Final Mix Tweaked and Complete!

By on February 12, 2008 in BluRay, Sound

Last night I went back to work on the final mix for Gone Fishing at Videosonics. There were two aspects to what we were doing. First off, there were three small creative changes to the sound mix, things I picked up while viewing the film outside of the studio environment. We changed two and left [...]

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Dolby Licence is secured for 35mm prints

Dolby Licence is secured for 35mm prints

By on February 11, 2008 in Sound

We have just secured our Dolby Digital licence for the 35mm version of Gone Fishing. When we screened the film at BAFTA, it was presented on HDCamSR with full 24bit uncompressed six track sound. For 35mm prints, we need a Dolby encoded version, and for that, every short film needs a Dolby licence. So tonight [...]

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Planning the sound re-mix tweak

Planning the sound re-mix tweak

By on February 7, 2008 in Post Production, Sound

Since the premiere I have wanted to do a few very minor tweaks to the sound track. And I mean minor. When you see your film out in ‘the wild’ as it were, you always see something new that could be changed. This is the value of having the time to go back and make [...]

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HD Sound Encoding

HD Sound Encoding

By on January 20, 2008 in BluRay, HD in post, Sound

I am now working out how to make an HD DVD or BluRay disk for Gone Fishing, so I can show it on courses and at home in HD – and also, send it off to festivals (if they start to move in the ‘domestic HD delivery format’ direction). While the difference between DVD and [...]

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Six in, one out… 'Muxing' the soundtrack

Six in, one out… 'Muxing' the soundtrack

By on January 6, 2008 in DVD, Post Production, Sound

Now the final mix is complete, I wanted very much to listen to it in Dolby Digital at home, on my own 5.1 system, as well as start the process for making a DVD of the completed film once everything else is done. The only problem is that I left the final mix on Friday [...]

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The Final Mix Is Complete! And it sounds AMAZING!

The Final Mix Is Complete! And it sounds AMAZING!

By on January 4, 2008 in Post Production, Sound

In nearly peed in my pants with excitement as I heard the final mix for ‘Gone Fishing’ It is simply AWESOME! I have just spent the whole day with a team of audio wizards from Videosonics as all the final audio tracks are mixed into the single surround sound mix. Editor Eddie Hamilton popped in [...]

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