open movies to train mixing/sound design/editing etc

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mcnys

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hello,

i know it probably non existent, but still...

maybe there are some short open movies with just dialogue recorded, and nothing else, so i could process, edit, design, and mix sound myself, for training purposes?
 
I will say up front that that is not going to teach you a whole lot and you should not put any of them on your reel because sound folks can have a negative reaction to that and they know it wasn't done under "real" conditions.

That said I would probably go to the Internet Archive and download a B film from the 40's or so. There will not be a lot of FX and few on the dialog so you should be able to get pretty clean dialog.

A better learning experience is to apprentice to someone locally who know what they are doing. You will do a lot of "crap work" but you will also learn a lot about how things get put together. Non union houses will often be very open to free labor, and you might end up with some paying work out of it.
 
I would suggest participating in online film festivals. There's a lot of people that need some post sound work done, and I think it's a great learning experience, both in mixing, noise reduction, editing, room tone finding, etc. DVXUser has a quarterly fest, but I think it's on a hold right now?
 
Noiz2 said:
I will say up front that that is not going to teach you a whole lot and you should not put any of them on your reel because sound folks can have a negative reaction to that and they know it wasn't done under "real" conditions.

That said I would probably go to the Internet Archive and download a B film from the 40's or so. There will not be a lot of FX and few on the dialog so you should be able to get pretty clean dialog.

A better learning experience is to apprentice to someone locally who know what they are doing. You will do a lot of "crap work" but you will also learn a lot about how things get put together. Non union houses will often be very open to free labor, and you might end up with some paying work out of it.
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Well the thing is there is no movie scene in my country :) i think the most expensive movie shot in Lithuania had like 300k usd budget(and there are like 5 or so movies with this kind of budget that were done here). also i will not do this for a reel, i have experience with sound (doing video games sound for about 5-6 years now)...i just want to try in my spare time to record/edit/design/mix sound for a short film, and see what i can learn from that...well maybe even help some young movie makers with their movies in the future :)
 
In that case I would definitely head over to the internet archive and check out so old films. If you want to have some fun maybe old Flash Gordon or similar serials from the 30/40's Big SiFi (for the time) and no budget so close to zero FX.

I would also point out that you don't have to work on a low budget film in your country. I have worked on a number of films where I was thousands of miles away and never actually met the director. If you have a decent internet connection and a way to send/ receive large files you can work anywhere.
 
"I would also point out that you don't have to work on a low budget film in your country. I have worked on a number of films where I was thousands of miles away and never actually met the director. If you have a decent internet connection and a way to send/ receive large files you can work anywhere."

-- Same here, many times I've never met the directors or producers. We exchange files via a private FTP account I set up for the client.. though some are not particularly FTP/computer savvy, in that case I'll use a common browser based file sharing service. Phone calls are common though during the process. The only thing I don't like and can't control is what the client uses for PB.
 
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