Movie Soundtracks in the making
I have done some research into the making of a movie soundtrack and what I find most fascinating is the amount of work that goes on behind the scenes to produce one! When you watch a movie on the television or in a cinema you passively listen to the soundtrack and just take it for granted. ... Firstly I have taken the art of making a movie soundtrack and condensed it into what I think are the most important eleven steps. ... Typically the dialogue is recorded on the set while the movie is being filmed using a variety of microphones and tape recorders. ... This may have been classed as the final step in movie soundtrack production a couple of decades ago before technology became so advanced, but now standard motion-picture practice today states that you must create a minus-original-dialogue element that can be used to create a foreign-language mix for the final step. ... That concludes what I think are the most important eleven steps of making a movie soundtrack. This whole process seems a very long process and more importantly a process in which an everyday ‘movie-goer’ does not appreciate or even realise happens.