No more secrets.
Here’s a nifty “Emergence” kind of sound: Reverse the first five seconds or so of your sound effect or music, add a little echo to it, then reverse it back. Mix that into the original beginning bit and voila!
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Child of tip – post production
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #142
Really, Beware of Thunder!
Before you plan a shoot, record the ambient sound from the location and go somewhere else and really listen to it. Make sure you aren’t missing something that’s going to bedevil you later, such as an elevator, nearby crowd noises, crashing sounds from across the street, whatever. It’s usually easier to find a new location than to clean up crap audio.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #123
And then get back to work on the next one.
Make a big noise when you finish something. Celebrate, dammit — finishing a movie is a Significant Event!
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #107
Death can be funny — if you give it time.
If you’re coming off a funny scene, give the next scene a few seconds to let your audience shift gears. If you don’t, then no one will ever hear whatever’s said in that scene, because they’ll be too busy laughing.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #99
Safer, too.
If you don’t have a Big Giant Machine to film (Big Giant Machines are very expensive props, so no one will blame you if you can’t get one), film people complaining about the sound of the Big Giant Machine just off-screen and then add the sound in post.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #85
3D in a relatively painless fashion
Blender is a fine way to start producing 3-D and it’s free.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #73
Ackbar’s right, you know…
If you can set your computer up such that it can have no connectivity (such as an alternate hardware profile or a radios switch) as a bootup choice, do so and label that position “Working.” Keeps you off the Interwebs when you’re trying to get work done.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #67
Aieee!
Easy on using the Wilhelm Scream as a sound effect. Ten years ago, it was cute, but nowadays enough people know of it that using it actually distracts from your movie and breaks the story.
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