Gangsters,Guns.And.Zombies.2012.DVDRip.Divx-Extremlym

Movie: Gangsters, Guns & Zombies
IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2151633/
Detected quality: DVDRip
Release date: 01 November 2012
Language: English
Subtitles:
Genres: Comedy, Horror
Cast: Huggy Leaver, Doug McCarthy, Jennie Lathan, Cassandra Orhan, Fabrizio Santino, Frank Rizzo, Josh Myers, Vincent Jerome, Dean Boor, Sharon Lawrence and others
Director: Matthew Mitchell

LMV Productions (the client)

The Set-up

The client wanted to record a group of actors who are discussing the film they worked on. This recording then would be used in the extras section on the DVD.

Our team (Kieron Johnston, Dan Hennessy, Janos Horvath) decided to use a H4N field recorder with two built in mics along with two ambient mics to record the actors’ chat.

Having 4 microphones placed horizontally (in front of the group in the studio) helped us to get equal level of sound from each member.

The Post Production

We ended up recording over 90 minutes of the talk. Matthew’s request was to edit out all the brand words from it. I thought that is going to be an easy job but it turned out to be a hard thing to do because of the actors’ accents. After I finished my first edit and sent it to Matthew I received an email from him saying that I missed out at least 20 words. He also attached a sheet to his reply, which had the words that I missed out with their time of appearance. This helped me a lot and I managed to cut them out over an evening.

The technique that I used to make smooth sounding cuts was to place a compressor on the dialogue track, side chained with the actual movie soundtrack. This setup allowed me to have an automatic volume increase on the films soundtrack whenever the level of the volume is pulled down on the dialogue track.

My overall experience on this job is not too positive due to the fact that I did not have to use much of my creativity during the editing process.