Chapter 5
The Challenging Battlefield of Production
“I'm sorry, David, but the # $%*!ing director won't give me two minutes to slap a couple of wireless mikes on the actors, and there's no room in the # $%*ing office for my boom man, so I had to stick the mike on the floor under the desk, so don't blame me if it sounds like #$%*!”
– Lee Howell, commenting on production DAT-14 while working as a production sound mixer
Without a doubt, the most difficult and arduous recording process in the audio track development of a film is the on-camera production dialog recording. Here the lack of preparation and tactical planning rears its ugly and expensive head in the coming months of postproduction. Here the ignorance and apathy of other production-unit ...
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