[alfa] Movie Soundtracks

["Nathan Goyette" <nathan_goyette@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

    It's OT, but the people who "improve" movie soundtracks are called
"Foley Artists" after the gentleman who pioneered the techniques.  Ambient
noise often makes the real sounds unuseable or unconvincing.

Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:35:00 EST
From: Pottree@domain.elided
Subject: [alfa] Re: alfa-digest V9 #1074

In a message dated 1/12/2004 5:29:29 AM Pacific Standard Time,
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:
The main characters also drive off in a Fiat 500... and there you can share
all my pain
in realizing the sound production had CHANGED the engine note ;\
Also a Ducati Monster visible. I think they changed the sound of that too
:-)
The sound of things like cars (and even most of the dialogue) is replaced or
added in post production; it is very rare to use sound recorded on a
location
for things like this because it is too difficult.  Even if synchronized
sound
is recorded together with the shooting  the film, it's most often used as a
"scratch track" or guide for the people who create the soundtrack you hear
in
the final movie.  Mechanical sounds are very often "created" out of the
wrong
sounds, or even several sounds at once, and are not naturalistic in most
cases.
Movies are better than real life!

Charlie
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