I sent off audio files to be mixed by a sound mixer, but a lot of the audio is not that well done. Some of the audio sounds like it was recorded in a studio, and does not sound like it's actually there in the room. The mixing was not applied. Especially some of the foley, which sounds like it came from an obvious library of sounds, and did not sound like the same movie. I payed the guy off cause I didn't want to go through any more trouble with the contract and I already talked about that one here before.
I now have sent all the video footage to a colorist, but the movie came back with the color looking very much the same. All I can tell is that it has been de-saturated a little and it looked like it has been dimmed, and looks faded. Doesn't look good really. I gave him specific movie examples of color grading I liked, but it doesn't look like that all. I mean even I could have turned down the saturation a little and made it more faded. I didn't need to hire a pro, if that's all he was going to do.
Plus the look does not match from camera to camera, and one of the reasons I hired him was to color correct the cameras look the same. But the difference are still just as noticeable as before, but more faded looking.
So should I pay this contract if I am not satisfied? I mean I lost about $500 on the last one, and felt it was not up to par with good audio standards, and now I do not want to do have to pay again, since I feel that the colorist only seemed to make two quick changes, which could not have taken the two months I allowed him to work on it. Of course this is just a rough draft he sent me, and we I am suppose to tell him what I want done differently, but since the rough draft is just a couple of minor changes and the cameras are still just as mismatched, I wonder if it's even worth continuing with him and paying him, cause he probably will not be able to get it done well in the end.
What's weird is that these people I hire have much better demo reels than the actual work they do. The colorist new what he was doing in his reel, as well as the audio engineer.
What do you think you would do, or should do, in this situation?
I now have sent all the video footage to a colorist, but the movie came back with the color looking very much the same. All I can tell is that it has been de-saturated a little and it looked like it has been dimmed, and looks faded. Doesn't look good really. I gave him specific movie examples of color grading I liked, but it doesn't look like that all. I mean even I could have turned down the saturation a little and made it more faded. I didn't need to hire a pro, if that's all he was going to do.
Plus the look does not match from camera to camera, and one of the reasons I hired him was to color correct the cameras look the same. But the difference are still just as noticeable as before, but more faded looking.
So should I pay this contract if I am not satisfied? I mean I lost about $500 on the last one, and felt it was not up to par with good audio standards, and now I do not want to do have to pay again, since I feel that the colorist only seemed to make two quick changes, which could not have taken the two months I allowed him to work on it. Of course this is just a rough draft he sent me, and we I am suppose to tell him what I want done differently, but since the rough draft is just a couple of minor changes and the cameras are still just as mismatched, I wonder if it's even worth continuing with him and paying him, cause he probably will not be able to get it done well in the end.
What's weird is that these people I hire have much better demo reels than the actual work they do. The colorist new what he was doing in his reel, as well as the audio engineer.
What do you think you would do, or should do, in this situation?
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