Music of Sound

ah the endless task of keeping software up to date…

this error message made me laugh – very zen!

DailyFilmDose blog has a great collection (with youtube links) of the best ‘long takes’ (ie an uninteruppted shot with no picture edits) in cinema history…

Some I remember vividly eg the start of The Player, that fight scene in Old Boy & the car chase in Children of Men… but others made me want to go rent the DVD & watch them again. Great to see Bela Tarr included – EVERY film of his could/should be on the list…
Funnily enough it reminds me of trying to play ‘who will blink first’ with my nieces & nephews when they were tiny babies – they always win! The same would apply with these clips – the longest take possible when shooting on film is limited by the physical maximum length of a film roll, which Bela Tarr mentions in this interview is 11minutes, but again it raises an interesting difference between shooting film & shooting digital eg HD – a film like The Russian Ark is just one single looooong take… and thats it! Intriging….

check out this video of a Tesla coil being modulated by some kind of control unit which is calibrated to generate synth like tones – wouldnt be out of place in a Daft Punk song!

Found via the excellent Matrixsynth blog

Finished temp mix #3 for 30 Days of Night, layed back & checked the HD master, then raced in & Gilbert Lake & Mike Hedges mixed my NZ Film Festival logo theme!

15 seconds, 21 tracks & my virtual orchestra performed happily…
Lead with the double bass (of course!) & some percussion (including a couple of arizona rattlers) with no complaining from the string section thank you!

It plays before EVERY film so I had to pre-age it to make sure it doesn’t annoy anyone…. but was also sorely tempted to record myself going ‘Shhhhh’ & put it in the surrounds…. & maybe some threatening mumbling about turning off your cell phone during movies!

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