FEATURE: Broken

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dsunter

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Hi Guys

I'm new to the forum but looking forward to learning from it. I thought I'd post the teaser for our first independent [no budget] movie called "Broken", we only have a few more days filming to go then it's down to editing. I'll try and keep you up to date with our progress and our mountains we'll probably have to climb.

Poster

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Here's the Teaser Trailer.


Please let me know what you think.

Many Thanks

Dave

Mods if I've done this all wrong feel free to remove the post
 
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dre83 said:
How's the sound ?

I mean the sound during shooting
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Hi,

It's getting there, we shot most of the action / scenes that didn't need actual on set audio using the inbuilt Mic of the Camera but for the scenes were we've had to rely on the Audio to tell the story we invested in a separate Mic.

Our next shoot will be using a Canon EOS 550D and we'll probably use the new mic plugged into the external in port.

I'm probably not looking forward to the editing on the scenes with the external mic. I've never cued separate audio before.

Once we get going I'll post back my findings :)

If anyone has any advice on Audio for Guns / Shot Guns etc i.e. best place to find [cheap or free] sound files that would be fantastic, a friend has lent me a CD of sounds from the BBC but the quality just doesn't seem that great.

Thanks again for taking the time to look at the trailer, hope you liked it.

I probably should have said the experience is better with your volume turned up :)

Thanks

Dave
 
Ow...and even with perfect recorded guns you will say to yourself "hmm..strange, in all those Hollywood movies it sounds different".

That's because you still have to adapt the sound to the situation. Add some reverb, equalizing......
 
dre83 said:
Ow...and even with perfect recorded guns you will say to yourself "hmm..strange, in all those Hollywood movies it sounds different".

That's because you still have to adapt the sound to the situation. Add some reverb, equalizing......
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Thanks Dre83

I know what you mean it sound far too clinical. I've been using Final Cut Pro to cut the movie together, in your opinion is it better cutting your scences together then adding the sound in another program?

It's the same with the adding of muzzle flashed etc. I think I'm going to cut together then add the effects in After Effects.

Done a very quick [7 seconds] test shot with muzzle flash and sound but it just looks so clinical, i.e. the muzzle flash is so clean compared to the rest of the scene so I'm going to have to add grain and colouring to it I guess. The film is filmed in black & white.

Again thanks for your replied and I'll have a look round for Charles Maynes.

Dave :)
 
Well Final Cut is good for video editing...but less for sound editing when it comes to "real editing". You're stucked with frames, and between frames there are still 20ms or more or less.

Final cut has also soundtrack pro..which is not bad.

I use protools or nuendo for sound editing.

See it as building a house... you can have a "do it all guy", but it's always better to have a plumber, an electrician,....
 
dre83 said:
Well Final Cut is good for video editing...but less for sound editing when it comes to "real editing". You're stucked with frames, and between frames there are still 20ms or more or less.

Final cut has also soundtrack pro..which is not bad.

I use protools or nuendo for sound editing.

See it as building a house... you can have a "do it all guy", but it's always better to have a plumber, an electrician,....
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Great analogy!

Unfortunately for me I'm the "do it all guy" for now :)

I'm yet to delve into Soundtrack Pro. Will have a look at protools and nuendo though.

Thanks again.

Dave
 
Too answer a number of questions.

Yes it's better to cut in whatever and then do the sound in a sound application. The best is to send it to a sound person.

The gunshots your thinking of are all layered up, ie there are a stack of sounds making up that sound. So what you have amy be fine if you much about with it a little and layer up. Also accuracy doesn't exist in action films. If it's a 22 firing start with a 38 or maybe even a 45. Make sure you get the impact sounds if they are hitting anything, it will really juice it up.

Advanced warning on the D550 I don't think there is any manual gain control so you may want to stick with an external recorder. Syncing isn't too hard IF you slate, pretty much a nightmare otherwise.

I would also recommend looking at the post stickies in the Audio section.
 
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