YOU TOO CAN WORK IN POST!

Saw this over at Brent Herber's excellent Pro Tools blog, had to post because it hit so close to home. Have a few Q and A's in the pipeline, should be up soon.

INTERVIEW: NOAH TIMAN

KIDINTHEFRONTROW.COM interviewed New York based production sound mixer Noah Timan recently. Timan who wrapped on Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" a while back, is very honest and forthcoming with his answers one of which is abridged below.







KITFR: "Do you ever find times when the director chooses something visual, or a performance, over the importance of the sound recording. And how do you deal with that? It must be frustrating, I'd imagine. Can you think of any instances where your work has been compromised against your better judgement?"

NT: ...There is often a very dismissive attitude on set toward the production track. Other crew members, like you yourself have suggested at one point, have often bought into this idea that a high percentage of the film is going to get looped, no matter what. So they say, “Well, why I am going to make sacrifices of my own work for the sound department when their tracks are not going to end up getting used anyway?” Or they say, less thoughtfully (and based upon zero personal experience in the realm) “this can be fixed in post.” Sometimes, in the latter case, they are right — but they are often completely unaware of how much work is involved by the post team to accomplish that, as opposed to far simpler solutions that often exist on set if there is some small semblum of patience and cooperation...

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THE IMAX PROJECTOR SOUNDS OFF!

Film Sound Daily reader slash IMAX projectionist Derek Helmer, sent me a link to his blog which features some posts in and about the IMAX projection booth he works in (I've posted some of my favorites below). I am a huge fan of feature film presentation in IMAX, even with the recent hub-bub about their retro-fitted theaters, hopefully IMAX gets that screen size discrepancy and proper charge therein sorted out. Regardless, I am anticipating an IMAX screening of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" in the coming weeks and you can currently see "Transformers 2" featuring a longer cut and "to-scale" robots in some shots. Anyway, enjoy some IMAX projection glamor below.

• A recording of the IMAX projector doing work.

• A shot of the 70mm platers used for "Transformers 2".

• An IMAX print of the "The Dark Knight" given the run-through.
  

IMAX Montage from Derek Helmer on Vimeo.

VIDEO INTERVIEW: ICE AGE 3: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS

This month's Michael Coleman produced video interview features Randy Thom's work on "Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs". Thom a connoisseur of sound for animated features, has 2010's "How to Train Your Dragon" and Bobby Z's "A Christmas Carol" next on his plate.

"Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" Sound for Film Profile from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.