Fish(er) Tales

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! These posts will give you a better idea about what this site is about. Start here, then go here, and here, and then here.According to Wikipedia “A shill … is a person who helps another person or organization to sell goods or services without disclosing that he or she has a close relationship with the seller.” I’d...

Over on Flowtown, Dan Martell came up with this interesting graphic on the Evolution of the Geek. Check it out on their site by following this link.   Not sure where I fit in to this chart. Hmmmm.

It seems like every technical field has its own jargon. And the film sound world is no exception. I’ve talked about this a bit in the past, but there’s always room to discuss more funny words and their actual meaning. Futz Sometimes you need to make sounds take on a specific quality. For instance, you need the music to sound as if it’s coming from a clock radio or a voice from a mobile...

Need a simple, homemade way to haul your gear around and keep it safe? Here’s a picture of a nifty trolley (from Ian Thompson) for lugging around and setting up your gear when recording film sound on-location. Gear stays safely packed in the cases. Boom poles are safe and within easy reach. And the two shelves are perfect for setting up and running the mixer/recorder. There is more detail at...

Here is a terrific Sound for Film Profile about the work done on the new film, The Social Network. It features Ren Kylce, supervising sound editor, and Michael Semanick, re-recording mixer on the film. They discuss the major and minor steps involved with bringing this film to life. This video comes from the outstanding series of profiles available from the SoundWorks Collection. Check it out: “The...

I’ve worked on a number of indie films. And it’s difficult to compete with Hollywood et al. Indie filmmakers shouldn’t even try. The best indie films stay outside the mainstream and that’s their power. And strength. What I’ve noticed, though, for indie filmmakers to succeed takes attention to only a few key areas. And Kelley Baker knows what he’s talking about....

This Sunday, October 10, 2010, at exactly ten minutes and ten seconds after ten o’clock in the morning, the digital date and time will be: 10/10/10 10:10:10. And if you miss it, you can catch that again 12 hours later. But after that, probably none of us will ever see that happen again!

The opening lines of a novel should really set the tone for the story to come. There are some great leads out there that always capture my attention. Some authors really know how to pull you in with just a few opening words.   There are tons of examples (as I’ve read hundreds of novels!). But my all-time favorite has always been the opening to Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest: “I first...