FUTURISTIC MOVIE TIMELINE
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CONSULTING: SOUND FOR FILM
Lately I’ve been doing some consulting work with filmmakers interested in growing their audio skills. It’s been a lot of fun.
Here I’m working with Amy Scatliff, a film artist who’s been putting together some experimental documentary work related to meditation and her difficulties pursuing it. She’s serious enough about what she’s doing that she’s not afraid to approach it with self-deprecating humor, and she has good instincts with audio that make it enjoyable to push things to the next level.
We’ve gone over some basic ideas about location audio, gain staging, dialog edit, relative levels of voiceover/ nat sound/ music, and some approaches for how to adapt her closet as a VO booth. Pro tip: don’t be afraid to sit under a blanket while you’re performing voiceover! No joke.
Check out some of Amy Scatliff’s work at everydayfuturistic.com/fieldnotes.
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"MOVING FORWARD": NEW PRODUCTION LIBRARY MUSIC ALBUM OUT NOW
Recently released: a new collection of original production music by Mike Hallenbeck, available from Opening Line Music Group and such sub-publishers as BMG. Recent placements inlclude broadcast news and variety programming in the Nehterlands.
Entitled “Moving Forward”, the album proceeds from a rootsy folk-rock approach featuring chunky rhythms that drive strummed acoustic guitar, wistful piano melodies, and chiming pedal steel counterpoint. The tracks call to mind late 70s folk rock and contemporary Americana, with a dash of the Feelies and perhaps “Reckoning”-era R.E.M. sprinkled in.
A few standout tracks here, excerpted from the album’s Dutch outlet:
With a little luck, you’ll hear these underscoring home improvement shows and life insurance ads before too long! Enjoy.
More production music by Mike Hallenbeck
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