Just had an article published over at Shockwave Sound. Entitled “Sound for Picture : Faking It” it’s aimed at highlighting some basic principles about faking perspectives for real world sound and effects for those on a relatively small budget.
Hopefully it’s not too technical and easy enough for those who don’t have an audio mixing background to be able to understand.
I reference a recent short film I mixed – busker – whereby I had to fake the perspective of someone playing a guitar in a subway from about 7 different perspectives using a totally clean track as the starting point.
A lot of the time it’s as much about how the change in perspective works and whether there’s the right visual information in shot to maintain authenticity or instead opting to go for what feels right next to the images. 9/10 times the feel and the images seem to win, and being absolutely acoustically accurate comes 2nd.
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needs to be given and not the random misinformation that is at the
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