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So this year I’ve been working on some local film projects and having the time of my life! Through friends of friends I’ve become the go-to guy for location sound recordings as well as post-production audio on a handful of shorts.
Last weekend I worked on a little vampire movie. I showed up at Kelley Point Park at 6:00am, and we shot there until 6:00pm. Some highlights:
• Filmed a girl in the trunk of a car gagged with duct tape
• The lead actor got to pack a humongous syringe and threaten the lead actress from the back seat of a car. We filmed a bunch of this in a moving car.
• We did a serious action sequence—a vampire attack complete with dusty stunts and prop blood.
Check it:
link
This is hard, hard, hard, hard work! You wouldn’t think crouching and holding a shotgun mic could be so painful, but you try squeezing yourself into the back seat of a small sedan for hours!
The cut for this one should be done within two weeks. I have to edit the soundtrack together, putting my Pro Tools skills to work. Blending sounds from different takes is brutally difficult—especially with recordings from location shoots, where planes, trains, and automobiles are constantly passing. I wish I could have shut down the damn airport for a few hours so we could get clean takes! Ah well, it’s all part of the fun.
It also inspired some new music, which I will post later on!
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energygiant
yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
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Fredo
what gear do you use to record sound on location? I ask because I'm just about to do the same.
Sounds like fun man. 
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frnortnr
awesome.
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tantan
Fredoo:
For ambient recordings and dialog in low-noise environments, a Sennheiser shotgun: link
I use it with a wind blimp: link
Get some some gloves for handling!
For dialog in sequences with a lot of movement, or with a lot of ambient noise, you'll want wireless lavalier mics, I've only ever rented tho so I'm not sure what brand is best.
I run all mics through a battery powered preamp, here's a little one: link
The one I'm using is a multi-channel mixer, not unlike this guy: link
Expensive, but multichannel in / out and v/u monitors really is critical to give you much more control over your levels and variety of mics. All depends on what you're doing.
Because new video cams have decent a/d converters, I try to run all sound straight to camera. That way, the live sound is all synched which makes editing SO much easier. However, I also record redundancy to minidisc, just sending the monitor outs on the mixer to my little Sony--this gives a security net, and also gives me much more material to choose from for ambient noise, fx, etc.
Long winded answer, hope that helps.
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tylth
vampire movies! yay! can't wait for "the informers"
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Roshi
sweet!
I had an inkling you were working on something like this, but it's good to hear the whole truth.
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Fredo
Totally helps! Awesome setup you have there, tantan. Thanks for the great advice.
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tantan
yah d00dz it's awesome, I wish I could do this stuff for a day job!
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EsromCole
So when can we see the movie?
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tantan
I think it'll be on you tube in a couple weeks, I'll let you know!
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mechp
Awesome! I like the photos too!
I respect anyone who does live sound or on-scene recording... taking mics outside and trying to get good, non-field-recording recordings seems like such a complicated headache to me... kudos!
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mlbot
 I thought you said you were working on your vampire MOVES. y'know, jumping out of the shadows and biting people on the neck, raising out of a coffin without bending a single joint in your body.... that sorta thing.
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energygiant
what about night moves? link
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mlbot
even better!
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SenorFrio
Nice one Tanner! Sounds like a fun project!
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