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LOCATION SOUND
Particularly in film school filmmaking, sound recording is the neglected stepsister. Because dialogue replacement is usually too expensive for low-budget films to enter-tain, their effectiveness depends on getting good original dialogue tracks. This takes thought, preparation, skill, and the will on the director’s part to accommodate the needs of the location sound crew. Good handbooks are Tomlinson Holman, Sound for Film and TV, 2nd ed. (Book and CD-ROM, Focal Press, 2001); and Lewis Yewdall, Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound, 2nd ed. (Focal Press, 2003). For an enthusiastic and engagingly eccentric source for everything concerning sound, see the Equipment Emporium in Los Angeles at www.equipmentemporium.com. ...
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