Sound class day three
Posted June 25th, 2009 at 05:44 AM by gafftaper
A few more random thoughts from class to share:
-If you are in a high school with no money and VHF microphones. Put the receivers as close to the stage as possible. Now line the area around them with aluminum foil and experiment. Hopefully you can find a way to block out all the other signals except the ones you want.
-Looking for some sound design music that fits a style but is a little different. Check out Pandora. It lets you enter a musician and it creates a play list of similar songs for you to listen to. Cool way to find music that's appropriate for a show and a little less known.
-Sound design inspiration: If you can't find an obvious musical style choice in the script, try this. Research the life of the author, try to determine what type of music the author may have been listening to when writing the show.
-Celtex an interesting pre-production software. Obviously very useful in Hollywood. Its definitely got some cool tricks that would be helpful in theater as well, but I'm not sure how useful it will be for me as it appears to take a lot of time to setup if the script you want isn't in the database. Check it out.
-Sound design inspiration: Doing a show in the 40's? Listen to the 40's station on XM radio or the music channels on your cable tv.
-And my favorite tip. If there was a fire backstage or some sort of an emergency that required you to evacuate the audience... what would you say? Who would say it? Write a script that is to be read. Decide who reads it (for example sound op on God mic?). Train that person what to do. Post the scripted message on the wall near the person. Don't say, "there's a fire backstage" say "we are experiencing technical difficulties".
-If you are in a high school with no money and VHF microphones. Put the receivers as close to the stage as possible. Now line the area around them with aluminum foil and experiment. Hopefully you can find a way to block out all the other signals except the ones you want.
-Looking for some sound design music that fits a style but is a little different. Check out Pandora. It lets you enter a musician and it creates a play list of similar songs for you to listen to. Cool way to find music that's appropriate for a show and a little less known.
-Sound design inspiration: If you can't find an obvious musical style choice in the script, try this. Research the life of the author, try to determine what type of music the author may have been listening to when writing the show.
-Celtex an interesting pre-production software. Obviously very useful in Hollywood. Its definitely got some cool tricks that would be helpful in theater as well, but I'm not sure how useful it will be for me as it appears to take a lot of time to setup if the script you want isn't in the database. Check it out.
-Sound design inspiration: Doing a show in the 40's? Listen to the 40's station on XM radio or the music channels on your cable tv.
-And my favorite tip. If there was a fire backstage or some sort of an emergency that required you to evacuate the audience... what would you say? Who would say it? Write a script that is to be read. Decide who reads it (for example sound op on God mic?). Train that person what to do. Post the scripted message on the wall near the person. Don't say, "there's a fire backstage" say "we are experiencing technical difficulties".
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