senior project, seattle wa

[Additon1]

Hello all. I am looking for some help.

Heres a little introduction before i start asking questions.

I started messing around with sound a few years ago, mainly home studio recording, and have a solid, general understanding of digital audio. Ive made hundreds and thousands of audio tracks of my music but have never extended myself to extensive on-site recording. A small team of my friends decided to make a collaborative short film, and each of us would get very involved with one specific aspect of it. Eventhough my background with sound hasn't cast itself into cinema audio, I knew that I would benefit from it greatly and it would be an amazing learning experience.

Our senior project requirements ask that we push ourselfs out into the "real world" and find a mentor to help us through our projects. I am looking for somebody who has a foot into cinema audio and is willing to help an eager student learn. I dont have a full schedule like most sound technicians so I can meet whenever you are available. This is not a time consuming thing for the mentor, i just need to meet with you a few times and let you drop some knowledge on me.

If nobody here is willing or able to be my mentor is there anyone/where you can foreward me to?

please post or email me at additon1@hotmail.com with any information you may have. I need to purpose my project and have a mentor squared away with my october 5th so PLEASE let me know if you can help.

Thanks a ton for reading this everybody,

Derek

[jayrose]

1. Post your query in the rec.arts.movies.production.sound newsgroup. There are some Seattle-based mixers there.

2. Unless you've got a solid theoretical background in circuits, digital audio, and acoustics, very little of what you "know" about music recording is going to be useful. And chances are most of your existing equipment won't be much use on the production side. Having a good ear, on the other hand, is invaluable... so you're starting out ahead of the game.

3. Understanding the workflow is just as important as understanding the techniques. Be sure you know what's going to happen in production, in editorial, and in audio post before you start.

4. Are you also doing post? That's a whole nother thing, and very different from music production. When I wrote my audio post book, I asked my friend Dave Moulton - a nationally respected audio educator and Grammy-winning engineer - to do the tech edit. He said 'there's stuff on every page I never knew about'.

5. If you can't find a local mentor, at least get a copy of my sound-for-video book (http://www.dplay.com/book/pgs2e).

[Charles Dayton]

You might also check out Thomlinson Holeman's book "Sound for film and video"

[Additon1]

where is rec.arts.movies.newsgroup or whatever?

[rraud]

http://www.recordingartsforum.com/