The lad makes a point!
AI companies want to legalize theft journal.hitrecord.org/p/ai-compani...

Let’s have a go at a new paradigm for news and see how it goes:
Sound recordist / camera operator

Because arguably the sound of the message is MORE important than the visual in a news setting.

They skimp out by hiring a single lighting camera person who has sound kit.
Unfortunately that makes sound an afterthought, as that lighting camera person is focussed on their main job, which is lighting and cameras (and often more than one camera).

So disappointing when BBC News bits have significant, central VT pieces with absolutely shockingly bad sound.

It’s not surprising however; because the BBC neither employs in-house sound specialists nor pays appropriate rates for experienced freelance ones.

Our crew took over the location late one afternoon and we wrapped not long after midnight. Great effort by everyone involved!

Based on a play written and performed by our fine lead actors here.

After a couple of short cutaways at the start, the full conversation is recorded as two simultaneous one shots, in two locations about 30m from one another.

This was one of those takes.

Here’s a fun short film I recorded, and then did post on, a few years ago. It’s been on a two year trip to all of the festivals picking up awards.

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The result of one take, and barely a full tech rehearsal…

Great work by all the crew and the amazing kit that enables work like this.

Recording dialogue, triggering audio samples and sound effects, while mixing to speakers in four independent zones, and creating a usable edit mix track on a one shot, “as-live”, 20-ish minute, video game promotional tie-in, horror experience with an expensive talent. Easy 😅

Here’s the Apple Link:
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Look a picture of me doing some work on a film!
Production Sound Mixing for Portraits of Dangerous Women.
Now available to buy and rent on most platforms you can do that on.