Re: Recording a performance tomorrow, help needed!

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:03:18 -0700, "Richard Crowley"
<rcrowley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And the amazingly convincingly realistic sound of _Survivor_ on CBS
Thursdays here in the boonies.
.....
Never willst thou hear the slightest artificiality of sound (all,
presumably, outdoors) or see the slightest of boom mics in camera.

Doing sound for those "reality" shows is a regular topic
over on news:rec.arts.movies.production.sound

Thanks; I'll check it out!

If it is *real* "reality" you want, let's turn the camera around
and get a shot of the poor sound guy with half a dozen (or
more) wireless receivers, a 12-channel mixer, and a multi-
track hard-drive recorder hanging from a strap around his
aching neck.

Now *that* would be worth seeing. The 90% of the iceberg
that lies out of sight would be television for an adult
audience, though, so won't happen. Maybe a "making of" DVD?
I'd certainly spring for one.

I'll admit that I don't see why people even watch any of
those "reality" shows at all.

Don't know about any others, but _Survivor_ is a cross
between a study in Game Theory and a perfectly blank mind
as preached by the great Yoda. Or something.

Thanks, as always,

Chris Hornbeck
.

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