It certainly has been an interesting year. We’ve dropped music as our focus and moved toward Film Production. Since this change we have met so many great people through all of the networking events Austin has to offer.
We started working on improving our studio space to incorporate a nicely sized Isolation booth for Foley, ADR, and any other recording needed.
Why Film?
Simply put, I feel that working in film is more of a creative industry. I’m not saying working with Artists (music) isn’t creative, it’s just not very creative for the engineer. What do we do? Primarily I hit the record button and do as I’m told. Reverb, delay, compression, etc….
Do you ever watch a movie in the theater or at home and become immersed in the story? This wouldn’t happen without the sound. It’s the mood and the atmosphere that follows the picture that brings you inside.
Ever wonder how they created the sound of the Batmobile in Batman Begins? Well, there’s a lion in there and probably a vacuum cleaner. But when you’re watching the movie you don’t think “hey that’s a vacuum and a lion!” you think, “That’s the batmobile.”
It’s really amazing and that creativity in the sound effects alone is awesome as well as the cues and mood created by the music/score. If you watched a scene taking place in a subway station, you would expect to hear subway noise, not the crowd noise of a baseball game. To create these soundscapes require not only the actual sounds but layers and layers of other sounds.
Anyways, I urge everyone to watch the special features in DVD’s, there is some awesome stuff to learn. I just wanted to give some of my personal opinion in our switch to film.
If you need Location Sound Recording or Post Production sound give us a call or email us!
Regards,
Ryan Mozek
Head Engineer
Placid Sound Productions
Tags: film production