CHAPTER 15

Sound for Production

The digital revolution has not exclusively revolved around the gathering, editing, and presentation of images alone. The past ten years has seen a veritable sea change in the tools and techniques of gathering, mixing, and replaying audio as well. There was a time when distribution on video or through broadcast TV meant that people would be listening to your film on little 3-inch built-in speakers. Today American households are fast equipping their home theater units with super high fidelity, digital surround sound audio. What this means for the filmmaker is that the audience can hear everything! So we are compelled to create the best possible sound tracks possible to accompany our carefully composed and exposed ...

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