Day 4 at the Big Bang (My Last Day)

The last day of an enjoyable week. Unfortunately they were a little quiet today so there wasn't alot of work to be done or go and see, I was scheduled to sit in with Matt who was going to be doing a track lay but due to time table changes was unable to do this. So the morning manly consited of me doing running duties. The first thing I had to do on arrival was to deliver a package to a graphics company, the rest of my morning was spent asking people if they'd like any drinks or lunch ordered.

When sat waiting with the runners there was a phone call to reception from Fred (the online editor I worked with yesterday) he asked if I was available to come up and capture the tapes for deadly 60 as he was busy, so I went up

to his offic

e and spent about an hour capturing tapes. (On my own, I was quite pleased that they had trusted me to do this alone) This was a relatively simple task to me as I have done this kind of thing before, although I did come across some minor trouble where there was an error in the time code, which was fixable by stopping the capture and rewinding the tape a bit because It had run off the end of the tape.

After lunch break I was sent to go and sit in with Pete. Pete was doing a mix for a low budget film called "end of the road" One of the troubles Pete had was he had no video to work with because the company hadn't given it to him yet, so he was going through the edit and sorting out the dialogue taking out lip smacks and also enhancing the speech with effects.

Pete was also taking out any irrelevant sound by using EQ filters so that the voices were clear and easy to hear. Whilst doing his work Pete explained how its important to ramp each piece of speech in with some atmos of the same room so that you don't end up with a hard edit.