A Conversation Between Sound Production and Sound Post

Walt Disney Screening Room
500 Park Ave. at 59th St
Saturday, October 30th, 2010

10 AM Breakfast
11 AM Seminar

Eileen Horta Supervising Sound Editor, "Rescue Me"

John McCormick Sound Mixer, "Rescue Me"

Chris Newman Sound Mixer, Amadeus, What Happens in Vegas

Today’s production sound mixers have elegant tools at their disposal, but they work at a serious disadvantage: they have little or no connection to the post people.

The production sound mixers rarely have any idea what they truly have recorded. Almost all monitoring is done via headphones and many production sound mixers don’t hear their product on loud-speakers until their films open!

If there is no dialogue with the post, how can production mixers understand their work? How can they know what they can get away with? What are the standards? What is usable?

This workshop is to enable sound mixers to educate themselves about post production. Join Eileen Horta, supervising sound editor of "Rescue Me" and "Gilmore Girls", John McCormick, sound mixer of "Rescue Me," and Chris Newman, production sound mixer of Amadeus and What Happens in Vegas and special guests to explore the connection between production sound and post production.

Arrive at 10 AM with your favorite pair of headphones to have breakfast and pre-screen the "Rescue Me" scene on your headphones that the panel will be discussing onstage.

The next time your producer tells you, “We’ll fix it in the mix,” wouldn’t you like to know if it’s really possible?

Space is limited so you must RSVP by visiting http://www.socializr.com/event/gothamsound/fixit

Special thanks to Sennheiser and Sound Devices for their generous support in making this seminar possible.