SHORT: So I directed a pilot? Hmmm

Hey Ben,

Nice job on the pilot. It's quite funny, and even though I've spent literally about 5 minutes with these characters, I already find them engaging. The production quality could be improved considerably, though - particularly the sound and the editing. The dialogue kept fading from Left to Right headphone, and also fading from quiet to loud at different points (particularly in contrast to the sound effects like the gunshots). The editing was a little slow - it felt like the editing was hurried and several shots cut in too quickly so that we have a pause before the actors begin the core action of the shot.

Also, the camera was a little messy - kind of "here and there," so to speak.

Don't let all that get in the way of moving forward, though. The pilot was fun, and I look forward to seeing more. Will subsequent episodes be available on YouTube as well?

-JMT
 
thanks man. yeah i know what you mean, the edit went a little messy and the wind on the day was horrible so that didnt help. I have shot episode 2 and i am editing that one as we speak. Im glad you liked it so far
 
Dialogues come out of the center (or "ghostcenter" when it's only 2 speakers). In a 5.1 they come out of the center speaker, sometimes panned to L or R a bit....Like when someone would enter in from the leftside of the screen... But some do that, some don't...it's something personal. For example if someone would be out of the screen at the left side having dialogue speaking in the direction of a bathroom. The dialogue would be panned a little left, and the reflecions would be right side... Don't think about it to much...

So that means: if you record sound on camera Left and Right you'll get 2 audiotracks. Because you used a boom which was I assume directly plugged into the camera, you only get one channel, so you only have left or right. Well the thing is to delete the empty track and to pann the other track in the middle. So then it will always be in the middle.

The other channel will then have the sound of the internal mic, which is mostly a stereo mic, stereo = left and right different information, which means if you record sound in stereo (with a stereomic or 2 mics) a dog right will sound right and the duck left will sound left.
Then you can delete the "non-boom" track.

Now, the dialogues are mono (panned in the middle, one track) so that they come out of the center. But the ambiances are stereo. So those you have to add later on. Which is the raison you see a list of 20 people only for "soundpostproduction" in Hollywoodfilms... Don't worry..that's just the big budget ones... For low and no budget films people are happy to have at least one :-p
 
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