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10/08/2007 by Steve Foxon.
Hi. Just sitting here waiting for the ‘Mind’s Eye’ audio files to copy across, so thought I do a little post. I thought it would be interesting to list how I do things from start to finish when working on an Audio, although you may disagree :-). So here goes:
| 1. | Read the script, and at the same time note down all of the Sound Effects needed on my nicely prepared SFX Sheets |
| 2. | Receive the Discs & Marked up script from the Studio (i.e. it has the times of recording on) |
| 3. | Go through the script noting the recorded project time for each Scene, once again on lovely prepared sheets |
| 4. | I then do various things with this info, including sorting the order by the recorded project time and deciding which groups of scenes I will put in each Cubase project. This all helps speed up the dialogue & fx editing later |
| 5. | Dialogue edit - go through all recorded material cutting out bits and dropping in re-takes as necessary. |
| 6. | Produce a trailer. |
| 7. | Get together all the sound effects needed. I may do this earlier, depending on when the play is recorded and I receive the discs. I like to do this, as it makes it so much more straight forward when editing. |
| 8. | FX Edit - Basically putting together all the dialogue edits with the sound effects, adding the room reverb, stereo positioning etc. This is the lengthiest process of all, and of course the most demanding. |
| 9. | Add the music - Once the FX edits have been signed off by the director, I’ll move on to writing the music. After having a play around with different sounds to see what fits (for which I get a good idea when doing the FX edit), I will just go through from beginning to end adding whatever sounds good and right. I’m not one for writing things before hand around a theme. |
| 10. | CD Mastering - Once it’s all signed off and everyone is happy, there’s just the CD mastering to do, which involves marking up the track points, making sure levels are all OK and burning to a disc. |
| 11. | …and finally, I’ll give it a listen to make sure there are no glitches on the discs, and this is in fact the first time I will hear the whole thing all the way through non-stop! |
All together, that will take around 6 to 8 weeks, and I’m currently about to start step 5 with ‘Mind’s Eye’, so still a way to go yet!
Cheers.
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