- 1. For week ending May 21, 2021
- (CSUN - CTVA 358)
- ... The new guy, Blas Kisic, my replacement, was picked my me and is really sharp. He teaches classes for the sound union. My plan is to work with him and provide him with all of our lectures and materials, ...
- Created on May 17, 2021
- 2. Production Sound Class Projects
- (Sample Projects)
- ... both the editors and your clients. Above all, it must sound good and be usable for its intended purpose. You do not have to use my sample templates for your paperwork; but whatever you do submit must ...
- Created on August 19, 2011
- 3. Chapter 4: Personnel of a Professional Sound Crew
- (Series - Preparing for Your Shoot)
- The basic production sound crew consists of the Mixer, the Boom Operator, and the Utility Sound Technician. The Mixer is the head of the Production Sound Department (usually just called the Sound Dept.) ...
- Created on August 19, 2011
- 4. New Reduced Membership - $5 lifetime
- (News)
- ... our Sound community. So he has made arrangements that allow us to reduce our subscription fees to a token five bucks across the board. Yes, you read that correctly: five dollars for lifetime access to ...
- Created on January 18, 2022
- 5. We don’t do this as a hobby!
- (For Students)
- This article was written for Student Filmmaker Magazine. As an educator and former Hollywood sound mixer, I really wish that universities would devote less time teaching calculus and more time explaining ...
- Created on January 28, 2021
- 6. Using your production recording tracks strategically
- (Recorders)
- Using your recording tracks strategically: a multi-track workflow for location sound recording Today’s sound mixer or videographer has a choice of recording location audio to one or multiple recording ...
- Created on March 18, 2018
- 7. Syllabus
- (CTVA 358)
- Quick Navigation Course Information Texts Attendance Grading Criteria Office Hours Fees COURSE SYLLABUS for CTVA 358 Advanced Film Sound - Spring 2021 [downloadable pdf] Note: The ...
- Created on August 22, 2017
- 8. Syllabus
- (Sample Syllabus)
- Quick Navigation Course Information Texts Attendance Grading Criteria Office Hours Fees COURSE SYLLABUS for CTVA 358 Advanced Film Sound - Spring 2021 [downloadable pdf] Note: The ...
- Created on August 22, 2017
- 9. Film, TV, or New Media?
- (Fred's Blog )
- ... the games are produced by in-house animators, sound designers, editors, and mixers — and fall under that facility’s union bargaining agreements. Most of the time, though, this work is conducted by “independent” ...
- Created on September 15, 2015
- 10. Link to the 695 Quarterly
- (Networking)
- IATSE Local 695 has graciously offered to share their quarterly publication with our students and members of the sound community. Local 695 is the labor union representing production and post-production ...
- Created on September 01, 2015
- 11. IATSE Local 695 Rate Card
- (Production Planning)
- So how much does a Production Mixer earn? For the benefit of our readers, I have attached a PDF copy of the current rate card for the sound union. Please note that these rates are subject to change ...
- Created on August 29, 2013
- 12. Student Projects
- (Fred's Blog )
- ... sound was most impressive. So I assumed that when it came time to shoot a couple of short exercises on your own, the video projects would represent what you are capable of. I expected to see creativity, ...
- Created on December 15, 2011
- 13. Thoughts about Steve Jobs
- (Editorial)
- ... get into home computing until the early 1980's. My first machine was a used, Apple IIe. I needed it for desktop publishing -- as I was the editor of the sound union's newletter/journal, along with bein ...
- Created on October 07, 2011
- 14. Guide for Creating a Professional Résumé
- (Networking)
- ... drop. Since you will be expecting potential employers to phone you back, erase that silly answering machine message that served you so well during college and put something more professional sounding ...
- Created on August 29, 2011
- 15. Regarding Student Internship
- (Networking)
- ... the bottom up. If you want to spend time in a particular specialty, such as editing or camera or sound or screenwriting, then make contact with someone in that field. Except for a minor handful of famous ...
- Created on August 29, 2011
- 16. Deal Memos
- (Production Planning)
- Hardly a day ever passes that the FilmTVsound staff is not besieged with phone calls from novices and students wanting to know how to get started in Production Sound, or from professional mixers crying ...
- Created on August 23, 2011
- 17. Syllabus
- (Chapman)
- Quick Navigation Course Information Texts Attendance Grading Criteria Office Hours Fees COURSE SYLLABUS for FTV534 and FTV329 : Production and Set Management - Advanced Production Sound ...
- Created on August 19, 2011
- 18. Class Projects
- (CTVA 358)
- ... work and impress both the editors and your clients. Above all, it must sound good and be usable for its intended purpose. You do not have to use my sample templates for your paperwork; but whatever you ...
- Created on August 19, 2011
- 19. Chapter 9: Making a Budget
- (Series - Preparing for Your Shoot)
- How do you respond when a producer wants to know how much is good sound going to cost? Assume that this is a medium budget, corporate production, being shot on film. Non-union. Let’s start with a crew. ...
- Created on August 13, 2011
- 20. Welcome to CAS, MPSE, and 695
- (News)
- We are happy to extend a welcome to members of the Cinema Audio Society, the Motion Picture Sound Editors, as well as to members of IATSE Local 695, the sound union. Arrangements have been made with these ...
- Created on May 15, 2007