Phil McCoy's Blog Posts Tagged 'Ed Walker' (6)

First ADR Session @ Walker Studios

Saturday, August 1st, Nate and I popped in to Walker Studios to see Josh Truax (above) working with Ed Walker (below) and Ian Hubert to replace some troublesome lines of dialogue. When I say troublesome, I mean that the original track recorded during production in August of 2007 has some distracting background noise or spontaneous sound effect that distracts from the performance.

Ed operates like a… Continue

Added by Phil McCoy on August 2, 2009 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

Post-Production Audio: Update #5

Post audio news: Saturday was tremendously fun. Josh Truax (Nebraska) joined us at the Spiral Production Center to record a few scenes with the Oma character played by The Four McCoys or as they are known in Halo LAN party circles, 4Mc (Michael, Kevin, Nathan and Phil McCoy).

Ed Walker was at the controls and recorded the 4Mc Clan. Nathan will take the 4Mc tracks and explore… Continue

Added by Phil McCoy on September 15, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Post-Production Audio: Update #4

We are pleased to welcome Joseph Vales to the Post-production Audio Team. Joseph is joining at an opportune time to help out with dialogue synchronization, scrubbing, sound design and foley.

Dan and Ed have been catching up on the scenes that they have in their hands. And Jen Forbes has been busy rendering out individual scenes as well as reel 2. The individual scenes are used for synchronization of dialogue bits. The reels will allow… Continue

Added by Phil McCoy on August 28, 2008 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Post-Production Audio: Update #3

The accomplishments of the Post-Audio Team are starting to accumulate.

Ed and Dan have organized their workflow for optimum productivity. Each time a batch of scenes are rendered out, Ed pulls the original dialogue tracks, syncs them up and then FTPs the result to Daniel who applies noise reduction and his special mojo. From there, the tracks are FTP'd back and then laid into the edit timeline.

We recently realized that… Continue

Added by Phil McCoy on August 4, 2008 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Post-Production Audio: Update #2

Our first dialogue tracks have been scrubbed and laid into the edit timeline and believe me, they sound good. Ed and Daniel have built a workflow that is organized and efficient. However, we have discovered some tracks that will need ADR. In particular, there is a scene featuring Shannon and Nebraska walking and talking in a hospital hallway and the ambient sound just isn't low enough to hear the dialague clearly. Kelly McCoy (Shannon) is… Continue

Added by Phil McCoy on July 18, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Update: PR, Audio, Graphic Novel, VFX, Stuff

I am very pleased to announce the following:

Ken Jager has joined the team to help out with PR. Ken is an experienced and award winning writer and will help us prepare bios of principal cast, identify key selling messages, prepare Q&A sheets, and field press inquiries.

Dan Andrews (new to the team and working from California) and Ed Walker have started work on post-production audio. They are just now… Continue

Added by Phil McCoy on July 3, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments