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Brendo
August 10th, 2007, 03:43 PM
I have an assignment for university where I need to mix a short film (I think minimum length 5 minutes) in 5.1 surround.
Does anyone have a film they need a mix for? Strange asking this on an audio forum, but it's worth a try, I guess.
Tim Halligan
August 10th, 2007, 03:56 PM
Interesting.
Just the mix, or the dialogue editing, premixing, design, foley, and music editing also?
If it's just the mix, you're probably looking at a day or two...
...if it's everything else, you could lose weeks of your life.
Good luck with it. It can be way more fun than music...but you may also want to kill yourself.
Cheers,
Tim
Brendo
August 10th, 2007, 04:33 PM
i think we're meant to start from just dialogue... just on-set sound. composing original music is optional but regarded highly when it comes time to mark them.
eagan
August 10th, 2007, 05:49 PM
If it were me, Brendo, I think the most obvious route would be to nose around and find a university with a good film and video program somewhere there local, or at least on the same land mass anyway.
Then, see if there is some online forum associated with that bunch, or, if nothing else, make up a little notice to have posted on a board there and send it to somebody in the department at that school. You ought to find somebody who will jump at the offer and be beside themselves with glee at having this kind of resource fall in their lap.
JLE
gilligan204
August 10th, 2007, 08:17 PM
http://www.winnipegfilmgroup.com/index.aspx?FS=0&CF=1
Check here :)
theres probally a budding film maker looking for some help
Brendo
August 11th, 2007, 01:26 AM
If it were me, Brendo, I think the most obvious route would be to nose around and find a university with a good film and video program somewhere there local, or at least on the same land mass anyway.
Sure - the reason I posted this was because I was reminded by talking to someone local who I know from high school, who's doing digital animation at the same uni. so that may pan out or may not.
eagan
August 11th, 2007, 02:33 AM
Oh, wait. So there is a film and video department right there, at the university where you're doing this? Well, alright, yeah, I would think somebody there would see an opportunity in this.
JLE
Brendo
August 11th, 2007, 05:33 PM
film - second year, not third year
animation - third year
uh... theyre unreliable and it looks like they wont finish their shit by when i need to have mine done by... so i'd lose marks for their lateness.
eagan
August 11th, 2007, 06:21 PM
What about somebody who has an already finished past project, and the audio stems are sitting in somebody's archive?
I mean, I don't know what's happening in the world of university film and video students these days. I never was one, but have a boatload of friends and acquaintences who either had been in film/video programs or were musical critters and got drafted into doing soundtrack stuff for friends who were. But everybody I know was doing this a LONG fucking time ago.
So I don't know how fancy student projects like that are getting in the audio department right off the start. But I'm guessing that it's still pretty uncommon for somebody to do a student short in 5.1 sound, and there are a bunch of past projects somebody has on the shelf, originally done in stereo or even just mono, where they might think "you want to rework this into a 5.1 surround soundtrack? yeah! cool! have at it!".
I have no clue. Just a thought for whatever it's worth.
JLE
Brendo
August 12th, 2007, 05:33 AM
Student projects are fucking abysmal unless you get involved from "go". Directors talking over lines of dialogue and sound effects... no atmos, only the dialogue, everything else stripped out badly...
No fun.
Tim Halligan
August 12th, 2007, 02:22 PM
Student projects are fucking abysmal unless you get involved from "go". Directors talking over lines of dialogue and sound effects... no atmos, only the dialogue, everything else stripped out badly...
No fun.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that things get any better in the "real world".
It's your job to create the atmos, the sound effects, and decide what needs to be ADR'd...then blending all of that into a seamless whole.
It's what I like to call "audio alchemy".
Instead of turning lead into gold, you turn shit into television. Yes there is a difference. :Twisted:
Cheers,
Tim
Brendo
August 12th, 2007, 02:28 PM
sure - however, these kids manage to even fuck up the fuck ups.
gbacklin
August 26th, 2007, 10:07 AM
I have an assignment for university where I need to mix a short film (I think minimum length 5 minutes) in 5.1 surround.
Does anyone have a film they need a mix for? Strange asking this on an audio forum, but it's worth a try, I guess.
Did you ever get anything to work with ?
Take Care,
Gene
Brendo
August 26th, 2007, 11:47 AM
a couple of guys i know in person are... being very vague.
MacGregor
August 26th, 2007, 12:09 PM
a couple of guys i know in person are... being very vague.
If everything else fails have a go at the 3 'The making of nothing'
parts of this year's Team Womb.
Especially the Slipperman episode should be great in 5.1 :lol:
Mac
gbacklin
August 26th, 2007, 02:09 PM
a couple of guys i know in person are... being very vague.
I sent you a PM....
zenpool1
August 30th, 2007, 06:39 PM
a couple of guys i know in person are... being very vague.
Hey Brendo-
We have this cool new thing called "Goo-gle"...:lol:
Try some of the film making forums-
http://www.indietalk.com/forum.php
Pees,
Kirk
Goes211
August 30th, 2007, 08:42 PM
Don't make the mistake of thinking that things get any better in the "real world".
It's your job to create the atmos, the sound effects, and decide what needs to be ADR'd...then blending all of that into a seamless whole.
It's what I like to call "audio alchemy".
Instead of turning lead into gold, you turn shit into television. Yes there is a difference. :Twisted:
Cheers,
Tim
Halfway around the world...but we're working the same gig here... :lol: :lol: :lol: