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Five sound rules to live by

Five sound rules to live by

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Five sound rules to live by

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Sound is one of the least appreciated but most important parts of filmmaking. It's as much a part of telling your story, as the cinematography, art direction, or acting. And if you screw it up, the audience won't forgive you. They'll forgive a blurry shot, a boom mic in the frame, they'll even let a weak performance slide, but no one will forgive bad sound. It's simply too annoying. It's very time consuming and difficult if not impossible to fix most sound mistakes made on location. The hard truth is that it's much more difficult to get good and consistent audio than it is to get good and consistent picture. Audio simply takes more knowledge, time, and attention to get right. So in this movie, I'm going to give you five basic rules that will help you avoid the most common mistakes that lead to bad audio. First, I am going to start with my personal Five Sound Rules To Live By, which is a quick crash course in audio best practices. Then in the rest of this chapter I'll get into more…

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