Im about to embark on a indie feature road trip movie. This story thrives on improvisation with characters and "real life" people. What kind of tricks do you know that could help g …

There's numerous question on here about favourite examples of sound usage in a film, but what's everyone's favourite film about sound? I know it's a limited genre, but worthwhile c …

Has anybody had experience of removing location music from documentary dialogue? A filmmaker has approached me to tackle an issue with broadcast rights on the music coming from a s …

Verite, essentially b-roll footage. It isn't quite dialogue, but not FX either. I ( the sound effects editor)just received tracks from the dialogue editor that have zero verite …

I'm just curious to ask anyone who has produced sound for a nature documentary, how much of the audio content is recorded in the field or how much is the product of sound design?

Apologies if this has been asked before. I'm designing around voice tracks, some of them recorded in studio and some with a portable recorder on location (talent's house). I find i …

This is kind of a follow up to a previous question I had asked about audio cleanup. http://socialsounddesign.com/questions/10371/some-tips-to-soften-wind-noise The director has a …

Currently editing dialogue for a short documentary, and I'm wondering, do you guys out there split off PFX in the same way as you do with narrative film work? I'm mainly wondering …

This is a long stretch but I'm wondering if there are any dvds of TV shows with sound design/editing/mixing extras. Interviews or making of docus would be awesome, but even a comme …

Hi folks, I’m gonna ask something quite naiv. I finished the sound design for a documentary (my first doc as a director), I worked on pro-tools where I reached the step called “p …

I work in the world of TV programming with reality, documentary & docudrama series work, lots of promos, some theatrical trailer work, and some independent film work. My curre …

Hey everyone! I'm working on my graduate thesis. It's a documentary about Sound Design in Argentina and right now I'm on the pre-production process. I'm looking for any historica …

I watched the excellent documentary, Catfish. The sound was done by Coll Anderson. There's debate as to whether or not it is real. I wonder if we can tell from the sound if it is …