Brandon Lee Vs. Hugh Grant
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008If you’re reading the title and thinking What the hell does this have to do with audio? you’re right to be confused.
The other day I was recording a client and we got to the point of “well, I played a note, can’t you just make it longer?” Of course I can. But why should I?
Which brings me to my point:
If you want Brandon Lee in your film right now, you better be ready with wide pockets to cut a check to ILM as he’s sadly no longer, well, hireable. They have a whole slew of tricks to put the deceaseds’ likeness in celluloid.
But let’s say you have Hugh Grant in your film. Why not just film another take?
And that’s the crux of my idea today. We as engineers have crazy tools. It seems like magic to “mere mortals.” And it really is- we can change pitch, length, timing with some effort.
But if we don’t have to, why not just run another take?