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Your list does indeed contain many of the common mistakes and technical errors made by amateur filmmakers but are really just symptoms of a far larger and worse problem. They just don't understand the basics of what is sometimes called "the language of film" or the art of any time based...

Without going through your references I can't be sure of their accuracy or the context you're quoting but I know that Orson Welles and others were re-recording sounds played in acoustic locations in the 1950s, well before Murch. I'm sure you could probably find something about it on the web if...

Couple of questions: 1. Which dialogue? Different characters' dialogue has different effects. There's some ring modulation on some dialogue, plus a lot of EQ/bandlimiting, compression, reverb and other effects of varying amounts on other dialogue. Although ... 2. Why? There are numerous...

You seem to be missing the point, sound is our passion and that's why we don't want to be producers! Producers are producers for one of three reasons: 1. They started in film as a producer and that's what they want to be, 2. They turned to producing to give themselves more freedom/power, say in...

It really does depend. Randy Thom is usually the first person that Zemeckis calls. I've been involved in films from the development stage (and am currently). Coppola bought Murch on board when Apocalypse Now was shelved and no one else was working on it. I would say that in amateur indie films...

I'm not sure that saying is applicable in this case, the OP doesn't even have a horse yet ... or a cart! He's hoping people will give him a horse (and a cart), even though he doesn't know which order they fit together or what to do with them once they are in the right order. Have I been rude...

To be honest, most of my work is like that. I know little or nothing about the film until the locked-off edit is ready and then, when the director realises it's not the masterpiece he/she thought it would be, it's up to me/my team to try and save the film by shoe-horning some audio interest into...

I'm going to disagree. It's certainly a challenge to make a film which is "great" for the budget, a film which is great compared to other $20k films but it's almost impossible to make a "great film" for $20k. In other words, a film which is great even if you had no idea of it's budget. "Great"...

"First"? On occasion, possibly but generally I would say "at the same time" and of equal priority, along the lines sweetie has stated. I'll live in that fantasy world and at the least I'll have James Cameron to keep me company. James Cameron does in fact do some of the physical sound editing...

No they don't. Not sure, where do Spielberg, Cameron, Scott, Jackson, Nolan, Coppola and all the others, live? Unless we're the ones financing the films, we all have to take orders to some degree. Given the choice, I'd of course prefer to take orders from an actual filmmaker, rather than...

1. Why are you stuck alone with your projects? Have you tried looking beyond just the people you know and getting to know other people? I can't believe that in a prosperous, developed European capital city of nearly 2m people, there's no one at all "interested in filming". 2. Making films for...

In theory, yes, you can be sued. Whether or not someone does actually sue comes down to a number of factors; who the person is, how many people are likely to see your film and therefore how much harm it could cause, how much money they have and/or how badly insulted they feel and therefore how...

The correct position for a boomed shotgun would be above and in front of you, pointed at your throat/top of your chest at a distance of at least 18" (45cms) or slightly more. When used indoors, a shotgun mic is affected by room acoustics and particularly by any acoustically reflective surfaces...

The NTG-3 is a good mic, far better than anything else in your list but it needs to be positioned independently from the camera, IE. On a boom. Even the most expensive mics available are not going to get you decent sound if mounted on the camera, probably only a little better than a home video...

The NTG-3 is a very good shotgun mic for the money. However, being a shotgun, it's best suited to recording outdoor production sound. It can be used to very good effect indoors but it requires more skilled use/placement and also depends on the indoor space/acoustic. Yes, you are. A shotgun mic...

What a bizarre question to ask. No, of course the viewer is not intrigued enough to find out, there simply wouldn't be enough time in the day to start with but more importantly, consumers of anything (inc., those who purchase screenplays) become largely immune to all the advertising they're...

Yes, it is possible, in fact it's pretty routine. There's commonly distance/perspective issues in production sound or between production sound and ADR, not so common with VO though. The closer dialogue can be made to match the further dialogue or the further dialogue made to match the closer...

It's possible but unlikely. You've got the sync rights, the master rights and the clearances of the individual performing musicians to consider. Whoever created/broadcast that video must have sorted out sync rights, performer clearances and dealt with the issue of a master license to start...

You need to find out who owns the rights to the video and go from there. There are a lot of potential variables here, clearances from the musicians, composition (syns_rights and recording rights. Even if it's been uploaded legally on Youtube or somewhere else, that doesn't mean it's public...

It's a shame to own a Ferrari but have to fit a Ford Fiesta engine in it! It it were me, I would be looking to hire a decent recorder and mic, per gig, until your income makes it worthwhile owning something decent. If you buy a 680 and 4053b, it could well be that within a year you will have...