Steve and I leave for Kyneton about
7:30am.
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The setting up of the recording facilities
and recording of the foley is very smooth. Steve engineers the
session and Gerry wields his synchronised magic.
(At this point I should confess that I am a foley-geek. The
adding, re-inforcing and replacement of incidental & envirmental
noises & effects has always fascinated me. Star Wars' sound
design got me started. I try and hide my disturbing enthusiasm
from Steve and Gerry.)
The foley sessions help with the earliest footage where we are
just using the on-camera mike (a cardinal sound sin) and the
radio mike moments where there is no other sound except Dick's
voice.
God, Gerry is Good. Soon we have camera bags scrunching, footsteps
landing on cement, etc. The bits he does to cover Dick's hands
holding, grasping and patting photo prints are spot on.
We also had time to add noises for the Dingo at Avalon Beach
(collar sounds, paws padding on the gravel and dog panting.
The lone
bicyclist proves a challenge and we are soon out and around
looking for a bike wheel to record. We're out of luck and finally
settle for some bike chassis shake.
Only near the end, when we have to dub the finished mixes back
to the camera do we have any technical problems - and that is
simply a matter of finding the right combo of inputs and switches.
It's all over by 3:30. I'm really pleased - especially with
dog noise!
Avalon Speedway
Lost Highways
2-1
Charger with
You Yangs behind RS inside
2002/1/10 13:47:25
LS no movement
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I have put about 90% of the foley in
place.
I showed LH to my old friend, Max Davis, and he made some very
helpful suggestions as to how it could be made leaner and better.
(Max is an old buddy of mine - we spent many mispent hours in
the early 90s talking about the films we wanted to make, and
the scripts ideas we had. Max went to AFTRS and I wound up at
Empire Ridge doing multimedia.)
I'm now making a few suggested removals and rearrangements and
am already noticing the improvements... The end is so close
I can smell it...
My notes on Max's Feedback - mainly
the removal of my more juvenile editorial impulses and one or
two repetitions.
I found a scanned copy of the Nikon
FE Manual on-line. I have added several modified pages that
include images of Dick. Subtle, huh?
