Category: Audio

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Audio: Portrait of a Sound Designer [Video]

February 17, 2014 / no comments / 351 views

Storm+Shelter have produced this wonderful short documentary on sound design, and the process of being an indie sound designer. “It’s early October and I’m standing on the side of a grassy hill, surrounded on all sides by ominous mountains and…

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Audio: Gravity

October 8, 2013 / no comments / 53 views

If you have followed IndieTips for a while, you should know that we are a big fan of SoundWorks Collection. If you don’t know what SoundWorks Collection is, this should catch you up to speed Founded by Michael Coleman, “The SoundWorks Collection…

Billy Crudup and Malin Akerman take direction during the destruction of New York. [Image from the brilliant Watchmen: The Film Companion, which is out Feb 6th from Titan Books]

Audio: Room Tone

May 17, 2013 / no comments / 46 views

When you’re on set, make a note to grab at least a minutes worth of room tone or ambience (sometimes called wild track). The reason for this is that when you are in post production, you may have to edit a…

Audio: Narrative Cueing

March 18, 2013 / no comments / 65 views

You can use music in film in a variety of ways, and I’m sure plenty of those methods will be posted through time on the site, but let’s have a look at narrative cueing. This is the type of music that helps…

Audio: Geographical Clichés

March 11, 2013 / no comments / 55 views

In a previous audio tip we had a look at what music can help emphasize emotions. For this tip we’ll have a look at how music can help identify a location and/or places in time. While these themes are so overused and…

Audio: Emotional Music

March 7, 2013 / 1 comment / 43 views

Music is unanimously a huge part of films and media. In our recent audio tutorial we mention that some professionals consider sound more important than visuals. Whether it be a classically composed score or a contemporary piece of chart music, when placed alongside…

Audio: SoundWorks Collection

March 2, 2013 / 1 comment / 56 views

You know it’s a good day when a SoundWorks Collection video appears on your Vimeo feed. Founded by Michael Coleman, “The SoundWorks Collection takes you behind the scenes and straight to the dub stage for a look into audio post-production…

Audio: Music Rights

February 25, 2013 / no comments / 23 views

Music rights can be a tricky business and acquiring the rights to a song can be more expensive than the new camera you’re saving up for. Let’s take a look at the three types of music rights. 

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Audio: Creative Foley

February 23, 2013 / 52 views

“Foley is the reproduction of everyday sound effects which are added in post production to enhance the quality of audio for the film.” The best foley comes from the interpretation of the sound rather than the literal sound itself. The sound of the giant boulder rolling down…

Audio: Silence

February 21, 2013 / 1 comment / 32 views

It may be natural to think that in an empty room there would be no sound at all. It may also be equally natural to think that if your scene took place in an empty room you would remove all sound…