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Recording Spirits - 25th February 2008

We're already well into the New Year and our project has gone up another gear. The boys at Media Hungry, Louis, Rhys and Jon are making great headway with some big visual effects shots for us and we have added three new people to our VFX team; Steve Newbold (above), Sean Dunderdale (below) and Ricky McMahon (2nd below).

We still need to complete quite a few more visual effects so that we can move onto the next stages of audio and final picture post production which include the final Visual Effects picture conform, Grade, Online, Dolby 5.1 surround sound mix and then 35mm transfer.

The music, audio tracklay, voice over and ADR has all been fitted in prep for our audio pre-mix.

One of the final audio recordings we needed to complete for our film was the ‘female spirit voices'.

We had the bright idea of using Anna Snow's wonderful voice. She is the lead soprano on our Hawk movie score and has the perfect Celtic voice to whisper those Welsh words in the ghostly manner I wanted.

Molinare, our Post Production partner is currently chokka block with audio bookings so it was proving quite tough to get in there, so we moved to our excellent Plan B of using Hawk composer Stuart Hancock's Highgate Studios.

This was the perfect environment for Anna as she was 8 months pregnant at the time of the recording and needed somewhere easy to travel to and having worked with Stuart many times in the past made it a relatively easy process for all involved. Various levels of whispering and breathing were recorded, which will be laid over each other at the sound design stage and placed into the time line to coincide with the reactions of one of our on-screen characters.

Within about 2 hours we were all done and another layer is completed on what we hope will make a great short film. For us the light is finally appearing at the end of this very long creative tunnel.

Meanwhile James Carter (Editor) and I have been working on Hawk Trailer II ‘Fire & Water' which will be released sometime in March, so watch out for that.

M J McMahon
Director

 

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