'AUSTRALIA' - Behind the Scenes - Location Sound

Wayne Pashley, supervising sound designer for Australia, gives an overview of how he combines on-set recordings and post production sound effects to let viewers see the movie with their ears.

[@curtisjudd]

Great overview of cinema sound!

[@MagnumDB]

What is is about Australia that they continue to produce great filmmaking behind the scenes videos? This, the Kodak Cinematography Masterclass series, and FXPHD all put out great things.

[@Kas0n]

So lovely to see/hear ;) location sound here, so often the extras only cover the stuff that goes on after the main production has happened!

[@theboomshadow]

Such a fantastic in depth look at the sound world! Thank you for this!

[@CurriedBat]

Great video! Awesome movie as well. Awesome, if a bit sad.

[@lovitz69]

He didn't record the whole movie on the 744t. If you look carefully, there is Apogee and MOTU rack equipment in there. He was recording to a computer ( ISOs, and Stereo mic probably ) and using the 744t for timecode and recording the two track mix for the editor.

[@bakersfieldmusicnow]

just amazing...much love!

[@Prabhath_the_Dawn]

That was really helpful. Thanks so much :)

[@jcp1984again]

An impressive location workstation there.

[@JacanaProductions]

Wow, excellent video!

[@lovitz69]

We strive for the best regardless of what post plans to do. Good example of this is the shootout scene in " Heat ", the gunfire was recorded on set, but was going to be replaced by the sound editors. Michael Mann heard the recreated soundtrack and rejected it, favoring the production sound instead. You just never know...

[@TheCeembee]

@Superfoot as an location recordist/mixer you should record at average of -20db with peaks hitting -10. the thing is to have nominal gain at every stage - from mic to tx/rx to mixer and finally to recording medium. avoid hitting the limiter. with 24 bit recording option there is no need to go hotter as all the garbage (noise) is in last 4 bits (correct me if Im wrong) as for mic wit leather guy it is a schoeps on the pole

[@SubhasisMukherjee]

You guys have done an wonderful job. Excellently explained. This video should be the Holy Bible for the indie film-makers. Thanks a lot.

[@RhombusUniverse]

Very interesting video, loads of info :D

[@Delta-iz4sk]

was a nice insight

[@lovitz69]

I would say most US shot films are 80% production sound. There's more and more of it due to accelerated post schedules. Some films are the exception, but generally 80% or more.

[@WatsonWu]

Nicely done. :-)

[@Superfoot]

Nice. Did you record the dialogue of the guy in the leather jacket, the guy who spoke about the 5 elements and Guntis Sics? If so what mic(s) or lavs where you using. What settings and levels would you recomend on the mixer recording dialogue. I love the way this clip sound.

[@JacanaProductions]

Baobab tree? Leant something new about Australia today.

[@therapy36]

wao, what i was looking for

[@delahozz]

Nice!!!

[@lovitz69]

Your french? Have you heard of Bernard Bats? He recorded " Ronin " with Robert De Niro, that track I'm sure is mostly production sound ( to my ears ), and very well done.

[@edhwin]

gracias

[@Nico7780]

So if you are shooting in the street with some city background for example, is that kind of shot being re-recorded ? With a boom mic you always have some ambience and such, so do you mainly focus on lav' mics ? I'm wondering because in France our goal is to do everything we can on location to avoid re-recording (mainly because that's an expensive process)

[@AustinSpace20]

More recording tracks. The 744 is only 4 tracks, and the deva comes in 10 and 15 track models.

[@michael86734]

cool do they record external or on to camera

[@Nico7780]

And on the set, is sound one of the priority for the rest of the crew or you hear a lot of "we will figure that out in post !". I'm a french sound engineer, I'm just wondering how do you work oversea. We have this big myth that in america, sound is being completely done in post-producion on a lot of movies.

[@Greenjah81]

Agree.

[@nosmoking2628]

-20db means you've got to drag it up in post. Just an aside: they ran the movie recently on TV. Noticeably, there's little dimension in the sound -- talent 10 metres away sound the same as those up close. Too studio in-your-face for my liking. Location guys did a good job though.

[@SoundSpeeding]

I wonder if he was using BoomRecorder or Metacorder?

[@TheCeembee]

pulling -20 is common (iso file recording level standard pretty much). I personalty mix a bit hotter.

[@user-xj8de4pd3j]

Great work! I find sound in film more important then picture. Could anyone suggest if second hand SD 744t is equal in sound quality to Tascam HS-P82? Im thinking what to buy

[@isaacbrooks5412]

SD. Amazing company, good tech support, and the 7-series is really light weight, has amazing sounding preamps, limiters, and high quality of construction. IMHO.

[@davidconsumerofmath]

What is the 360 degree microphone that they're using @9:30 ?

[@riccardomejia]

Looks like a ST450 MKII SoundField Portable

[@davidconsumerofmath]

Riccardo Mejia thanks I'll check out the ST450 MKII SoundField!

[@CocktaiLMolotovX]

5:50 what microphone is used?

[@adamshaheen300]

not sure what specific one, but i think its a pencil mic with a pop shield covering the top . Lots of different models out there, this one will be very high quality, hope this helps :)

[@TheHPMProductions]

What was the surround Sound mic. What model? Are there any for like 500 to 1k US Dollars

[@luanaudio]

Yeah would like to know that too

[@OK1SKZ]

SoundField ST350

[@Nico7780]

Why would they spend that much time, money and gear on location recording since the thing is going to be re-recorded in post ?

[@ramunagarphotographykrishn1867]

hi

[@mariemarcellus367]

Ram Lakhan ,