About the author
If you want to know what prejudices to expect, or why the advice or terminology here may be a little different from that in some other book you have seen, it may help you to know where the writer is coming from. So … this is where I came from.
I began my working life as a studio manager in BBC Radio – for which they did not want ‘engineers’. In fact, the entry qualifications seemed to be ‘anything unusual, but different from the last successful applicant’, of which about 50% were women and a few were gay. Oddly, being a male mathematical physicist did not seem to disqualify me. My earliest faltering footsteps (the ‘spot effects’ later called ‘foley’ by others) included horses’ hoof effects generated with the aid of coconut shells. ...
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