Professional level editing is getting more and more important in the independent community. On one hand, massive blockbusters use high-end production equipment to deliver films with staggering budgets. These monstrously budgeted behemoths require teams of hundreds of people to bring to life. Many people can apply the techniques they learn on the lower end to fitting into a mainstream production film studio.
With that said, some films are vastly inferior than they should be because of poor editing and sound. Choppy and nonsensical editing will severely detriment the flow of an otherwise quality film. This includes techniques that cause a proper flow in the story and do not distract with their weirdness, choppiness or awkward angling.
But it is not only film editing that can severely decrease a film’s quality. Sound design is paramount in establishing a certain atmosphere and enhancing a certain mood. This may include AVR overdubbing when the vocal takes are either unusable or never recorded. Sound design also includes song overlays or use of certain songs during specific scenes or montages. Sound design services rely a lot on sound mixing. This is the process of balancing out the background noise, the overlaying soundtrack, and the character dialogue so it all fits together and plays off the other well. This type of mixing and mastering is done post-production and can be a major arbiter for making a good film great.
To a lesser extent, color correction is important. Coloration may be needed to fix a scene, or it could be used to enhance a mood. For example, the Steven Spielberg classic Schindler’s List employed black and white filming throughout. The only time the color was red as in the famous scene of the young lost girl (who was later shown in the film again). This is a creative use of color correction and another technique employed in post-production.
Sound design services implement all these varying strategies to make for a better film. Whether it is a purely commercial project or a creative pet project. quality sound design is important to increase the poignancy of the work. Great sound design can be award-winning and it can move a certain emotional response to the front and center. Visit Chromavision for more information.
Sound design services implement all the varying strategies to make for a better film. For more information visit the website or Like us on Facebook.
