Hi all, I’ve recently stepped away from producing and have started to focus more on location sound recording. I won’t go into why I’ve made this change in this post, but am looking for some advice on a project I have coming up.
We have a location for one scene that the director has their heart set on, but unfortunate it’s a warehouse location with some serious echo. I’ve given them a general estimate of what it will cost both in time and money to set up the location to have this echo radically reduced but being a low budget shoot that has already had its budget stretched a little too thin, they’re not keen on this option.
What they did ask me was what if they embraced the echo and tried to play it off as a stylistic choice? I told them I’d look into this. My main concern is that this will sound terrible as opposed to intentional. But my other concern, and my main question for this post, is how the scene is going to be handled in post production. It’s a dialogue heavy fight scene between four actors. Could cutting the sound together for this scene potentially be a nightmare for the person handling it in post production?
We have a location for one scene that the director has their heart set on, but unfortunate it’s a warehouse location with some serious echo. I’ve given them a general estimate of what it will cost both in time and money to set up the location to have this echo radically reduced but being a low budget shoot that has already had its budget stretched a little too thin, they’re not keen on this option.
What they did ask me was what if they embraced the echo and tried to play it off as a stylistic choice? I told them I’d look into this. My main concern is that this will sound terrible as opposed to intentional. But my other concern, and my main question for this post, is how the scene is going to be handled in post production. It’s a dialogue heavy fight scene between four actors. Could cutting the sound together for this scene potentially be a nightmare for the person handling it in post production?