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Audio Production and Postproduction

Author(s): Woody Woodhall
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763790714
  • Paperback    318 pages      © 2011
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Overview

This introductory, comprehensive text of audio practices is for both production and post-production sound. It emphasizes the importance of recording the sound properly on the set and also explains the post-production audio process as a creative collaboration that enhances the story and is not merely a “fix” for various audio problems.

This book guides readers through a series of exercises to better understand the relationships between the gear and practices required for optimal recordings and mixes. Rather than merely explain the concepts of sound wave propagation, the electronics of how sound is recorded, or the acoustics of sound reverberation in spaces, these exercises are designed to demonstrate and reinforce these crucial ideas.

This systematic approach from simple recording through sound editing and mixing gives aspiring sound technicians valuable hands/ears-on experience so they can achieve the same professional quality as those working in the industry!

ShowKey Features

  • Teaches professional-level skill sets
  • Achieves professional-looking results
  • All content is grounded in the new realities (and opportunities) of “garage-band” media production
  • Includes practical, class-tested exercises, labs, and fieldwork
  • Accompanying CD-ROM contains additional resources of recorded examples of - different microphone positions, various microphone polar positions, reverberant rooms, hard effects, ambiences, and room tones. Also included are additional utility files - 20 db tone and a three beep ADR cue track.

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ShowTable of Contents

Chapter 1  Plan for Sound
Chapter 2  Tools for Recording
Chapter 3  Recording Audio and Working On-Set
Chapter 4  Don’t Just Get the Shot
Chapter 5  Preparing Audio for Editing
Chapter 6  Organizing and Editing Sound with Final Cut Express
Chapter 7  Sound Editing in Digital Audio Workstations
Chapter 8  The Dialog Edit
Chapter 9  Voice-Over Recording
Chapter 10  Recording and Editing Dialogue Replacement
Chapter 11  Sound Design
Chapter 12  The Foley Process
Chapter 13  The Music Score
Chapter 14  Mixing, Filters, and Effects
Chapter 15  Outputting Sound and Backing Up
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ShowAbout the Author(s)

Woody Woodhall

Woody Woodhall, CAS is President of Allied Post Audio in Santa Monica, Calif. A supporter and advocate for independent filmmaking, he’s sound-designed and mixed many independent feature films and documentaries that have played in theatres the world over. For television he’s VO-recorded, sound-edited, and mixed hundreds of episodes of programming for VH-1, Discovery’s The Travel Channel, USA Network, Sony’s Game Show Network, and Comedy Central among many others. Woody is always striving to be at the leading edge of the ever-growing suite of creative audio and video computer software. He is founder and moderator for the Los Angeles Post Production Group, a monthly, membership meeting group of post-professionals in Hollywood. Besides writing for his blog WoodysSoundAdvice, he is also a contributing blogger to studiodaily on audio matters. He’s won awards for Best Foreign Film at the European International Film Festival for “Silent Radio,” a film which he post produced, sound designed, and mixed. He was awarded both a 2008 Telly Award and a 2008 Communicator Award for Sound Design and Mixing for E! International’s “The New A-List Hollywood.” He was also awarded Create Magazine’s “Best of Industry Award – Audio Services” for his recording work on JibJab Media’s “Second Term.”

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ShowAppropriate Courses

This text is appropriate for the following courses:

Film & Video Sound, Post-Production Audio I, Location Sound Recording, Sound Effects and Foley, Film/Video Audio Production

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