Audio tips for Indie Directors/Producers/DPs

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shawneous said:
Does anyone else have any tips for indie producers who want good audio?
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Read every post in the Audio section, and never, ever, ask questions here???

(Lightly veiled sarcasm ;)
 
you can do whatever you like in your films - thanks god i dont ned to finance them :-)
indie - nice name - does it change something ?:-)
 
shawneous said:
I need to be able to take an audio enthusiast and make them a competent mixer and keep tabs on them.
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Shawneous,
Please dont take this as an insult but while I do think you have some valid tips for Indie filmmakers, based on some of your previous questions and posts, such as when to use a -10db pad, It does beg the question how is it you intend to make a competent mixer out of an audio enthusiast, when you yourself have a fairly limited amount of audio experience?
I think your productions would be much better served if you were to hire someone that at least has some schooling in audio. There are many students from audio schools that at least have an understanding of signal flow, gain structure, type of mic to use and placement etc. that would love the opportunity to work on a movie set.
 
Ozduc- taking somebody with a strong interest and training them isn't that hard. You just have to be patient, and very studious. While I was editing for surfguru.com, I ended up learning videography and teaching their camera people how to shoot better... which made things easier for me in the long run.
 
Capt Quirk said:
Ozduc- taking somebody with a strong interest and training them isn't that hard. You just have to be patient, and very studious.
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I totally agree but my point was, it would be pretty difficult to train someone to be competent at something that you have very limited knowledge of yourself. For instance would you be able to train someone to be a competent DP if you didn't know what situation might call for the use of a scrim or an ND filter?
 
If'n ya don't know what you're doing, look it up and figure it out. It may take a bit of trial and error, but how many of the film makers here are proffessionaly trained DPs? I'm betting less than 10%. Yet, their stuff in most cases, looks pretty good.
 
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