Duncan is right about "the visceral thrill of the engines and the sounds". The Dutch F-16 made my day with its ear-bashing, chest-battering afterburner; I haven't enjoyed a show like that since the days when English Electric Lightnings used to rip the skies apart. So I hope you do a good job with the sound (it was a long, long way behind him on one run), but I'm not sure that any electronic equipment could survive reproducing the real thing!
You are absolutely right - the engine sounds are all important and we go to great lengths to record accurate location stereo and limit the use of music in our final programmes in favour of the location sound. You can even turn the narrator off on the DVD.
The 60 sec highlights you have viewed is just a taster and it has to be online quickly to do its job and there just isn't time to post-produce the sound as well as the vision.
The sound embedded with the picture may not be useable; it could have recorded innappropriate PA or extraneous sounds like an ice cream van! Our lenses are so powerful you probably cannot even hear the aircraft approaching at a distance.
In post-production that means a lot of work bringing sound in from a different clip, even a different event! The levels almost certainly need altering which is an extra process and maybe even graphic equalising.
Think of these clips like the smell of food being cooked - the real treat is coming soon.
Folk visit airshows for the visceral thrill of the engines and the sounds and all you do is run it mute with heavy beat music all over it. Where is the sound of the many Merlins of the BBMF? It may be a 60 second taster, but does it need a kid pointing at goodness knows what for some seconds?
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Re: Bournemouth Air Festival 2010 Highlights
Duncan is right about "the visceral thrill of the engines and the sounds". The Dutch F-16 made my day with its ear-bashing, chest-battering afterburner; I haven't enjoyed a show like that since the days when English Electric Lightnings used to rip the skies apart. So I hope you do a good job with the sound (it was a long, long way behind him on one run), but I'm not sure that any electronic equipment could survive reproducing the real thing!
Re: Bournemouth Air Festival 2010 Highlights
Hello Duncan
You are absolutely right - the engine sounds are all important and we go to great lengths to record accurate location stereo and limit the use of music in our final programmes in favour of the location sound. You can even turn the narrator off on the DVD.
The 60 sec highlights you have viewed is just a taster and it has to be online quickly to do its job and there just isn't time to post-produce the sound as well as the vision.
The sound embedded with the picture may not be useable; it could have recorded innappropriate PA or extraneous sounds like an ice cream van! Our lenses are so powerful you probably cannot even hear the aircraft approaching at a distance.
In post-production that means a lot of work bringing sound in from a different clip, even a different event! The levels almost certainly need altering which is an extra process and maybe even graphic equalising.
Think of these clips like the smell of food being cooked - the real treat is coming soon.
Adrian
Adrian Campbell Marketing Director PlanesTV.com
Re: Bournemouth Air Festival 2010 Highlights
Yes! I agree with you Duncan. It could have had the sounds of the Aircraft. But I guess we have to buy the DVD
from Beryl (Sydney Australia).
B Allen
Re: Bournemouth Air Festival 2010 Highlights
Wish I could have been there. Lucky people to have so many Airshows to go too.
B Allen
Re: Bournemouth Air Festival 2010 Highlights
Folk visit airshows for the visceral thrill of the engines and the sounds and all you do is run it mute with heavy beat music all over it. Where is the sound of the many Merlins of the BBMF? It may be a 60 second taster, but does it need a kid pointing at goodness knows what for some seconds?
Duncan Truro
Re: Bournemouth Air Festival 2010 Highlights
my brother goes every year always very good and free.
d vayle
Re: Bournemouth Air Festival 2010 Highlights
quality like always, super work
Re: Bournemouth Air Festival 2010 Highlights
excellent - hope Leuchars is as good
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i say well done
Re: Bournemouth Air Festival 2010 Highlights
well done
The Older I get - The faster I was !
Re: Bournemouth Air Festival 2010 Highlights
That looks bloody good