Uli Plank wrote:Blocks are not cut off for sound, but for avoiding people staring into the camera. Sound in movies is a very synthetic element, composed in post with ADR, Foley, libraries, etc. whenever you don't have controlled conditions. I'd rather collect rare views. Well, maybe some very specific sounds too.
Thanks, I’m quite aware of how TV shows and movies are made, having been brought up in the business. Of course, the whole point of cordoning off whole blocks in NY is to create your “controlled conditions”, and I’m happy to tell you for a fact that sound is indeed recorded in these situations in NY. Some of it is wild sound, some of it is dialogue that will be replaced by ADR and some of it is dialogue that will be used. Furthermore, by “peace and quiet” I also meant relative absence of pedestrians and vehicles.
Not that an argumentative lecture on how TV and feature films are made has anything to do with the subject, and more importantly the spirit, of my posts.
I was kind of hoping, in these trying circumstances, for something more constructive, maybe even with a bit of humour thrown in.