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A long time ago I had the opportunity to record opera singers, so since, I listen to voice recordings.
I follow location recordist Simon Hayes socials. Hayes is a location recorder on movie sets. The location recording engineer selects boom mics, hidden on-body mics, and plant mics, to record the actors, recording them all and keeping microphones out of the picture. It is not like putting a giant large diaphragm vintage microphone in front of a singer in a studio.
The location tracks are passed to the post production process. The actor tracks are usually mono, then panned to spatial in post. They are selected or replaced by ADR. Then all the processing, sound effects, and music beds are added. We get the final result in movie audio mix formats on up to ATMOS.
The sound is a big part of the impact on the audience. The emotion in the face coupled with the emotion in the voice is different than re-recording voice in ADR.
For the film Wicked, they tried to use, as much as possible, sound recorded live along with the picture. I'm looking forward to seeing it in ATMOS.
Obviously the YouTube is Wicked marketing, but maybe useful to ASR.
There are also, if you look, discussion by other location recordists on how they did Game of Thrones location recording.
I follow location recordist Simon Hayes socials. Hayes is a location recorder on movie sets. The location recording engineer selects boom mics, hidden on-body mics, and plant mics, to record the actors, recording them all and keeping microphones out of the picture. It is not like putting a giant large diaphragm vintage microphone in front of a singer in a studio.
The location tracks are passed to the post production process. The actor tracks are usually mono, then panned to spatial in post. They are selected or replaced by ADR. Then all the processing, sound effects, and music beds are added. We get the final result in movie audio mix formats on up to ATMOS.
The sound is a big part of the impact on the audience. The emotion in the face coupled with the emotion in the voice is different than re-recording voice in ADR.
For the film Wicked, they tried to use, as much as possible, sound recorded live along with the picture. I'm looking forward to seeing it in ATMOS.
Obviously the YouTube is Wicked marketing, but maybe useful to ASR.
There are also, if you look, discussion by other location recordists on how they did Game of Thrones location recording.
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