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  1. Rode NTG-2 Shotgun Microphone and Movie Scoring

    by , 03-06-2012 at 03:23 PM
    I wrote this last July and never posted it.

    This weekend was the annual 48 Hour Film festival. The idea is you have 48 hours to make a movie 7 minutes or less starting from scratch. You don't know the genre, required props, or required character names beforehand. At 7:00pm on a Friday night there is a huge rush to toss together a story, locations, cast, etc.

    I brought out my sorta-portable recording rig (which isn't) and setup in a spare bedroom (probably ...
  2. The Significance of Bumping

    by , 10-10-2011 at 02:35 PM
    The correct spelling is probably bumpin' or bumpN or something like that. I'm white. I look white. I dance white. I'm calling it bumpING.

    Once upon a time I was into to the rather progressive stuff and rarely listened to a song that was shorter than 8 minutes. I took the cerebral side to the music I made and recorded very seriously and avoided anything that wasn't up to “my standards”. I went through the same thing with movies. If the movie was something the “popcorn crowd” ...
  3. Why Fireman Don't Make Good Recording Guys

    by , 04-12-2011 at 10:02 AM
    There's never enough time in the day for me. I try to fill each and every second with something that is going to get me more work completed or give me knowledge.

    Here lately I've noticed time slipping by faster than ever before. I think part of it is me turning 31 in a month. The year is past 1/3 over so I was reflecting on what I had completed this year. For a guy who works as long of hours as I do, the list of big things I had achieved in 2011 was a little disappointing. ...
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