Tech Sound Unit 38

Sound - Unit 38

Who does what?
- Sound recordist (during production,seen on location, usually holding a boom pole. It is there job to record sound)

- Sound mixer (mixes,balances sound during post production. Makes sure everything is correct)

- Foley artist (Creating sounds that mimick real sounds on the screen)

- Composer/score writer (Composes music for onscreen images)

- Sound Designer (Designs and plans the sounds before anything is recorded. In charge of all recordings)

What do we record?
- Dialogue (Individuals, groups)

- Real world action (e.g placing of chair)

- Background/atmosphere (animate,inanimate,ambient)

- SFX Sound effects (Foley,real world sounds)

- Sync (when the audio is in time with the video. MUST be in time with video so people can understand it) Non - sync (Dont need to be in sync to make sense) Out of sync (When the sound doesnt match the action and doesnt make sense)

- Sound mixing (Balancing all sounds, making everything level)

- Wildtrack (A recording of background/ambient sound. If there is unwanted sound in the audio you can cut it and replace with the wildtrack)