Tebor wrote:

However, I do analyze the first Terminator more than the second as a filmmaker. That's a great low budget action movie to model and learn from. However, T2 should be taught in film school about how to make a great sequel (ya know with Godfather II and all that).

The second is also really good to teach for people learning audio postproduction. In fact, it was taught to us when I was studying to be a music engineer.

DarkMaze wrote:

Dr. Jeebus wrote: The second is also really good to teach for people learning audio postproduction. In fact, it was taught to us when I was studying to be a music engineer. Really? That's pretty cool. Any specific examples that you remember?

In our very first class, Intro to Sound Recording, we were shown the clip from the end (some sort of smelting factory or something. forget exactly where they are) when they kill the T-1000. We were shown a 30 second clip like 10 times and had to write down EVERY sound we heard, and we all missed like 30, lol.

Then in the Audio Post Production class, we were given a clip with the audio stripped (obviously there was no dialogue in this part), where we had to add sound back in. It was some office or something when they're running from the T-1000. He unloads like an entire pistol clip (and steps on glasses, which I recall being like an impossible noise to make), and Arnold hits in in the face with a shotgun. Good times.

If you wanna try out some audio stuff though, here was another fun project: we were given a small assortment of animal noises (there was a pig and a cat, I forget what else). We were also given like a 10 second clip of Godzilla where he was supposed to emit some sort of thunderous roar. We had to turn a pleasant cat's meow or something into Godzilla. Fun times

#edit: I didn't do this one, but another one was the fire fight in the Matrix when Neo and crew walk into some like marble building with a shitload of guns. I didn't do this one, but my roommate did. Unfortunately, in his one I could tell that he had used bowling pins to try to create the sound of marble shattering.

DarkMaze wrote:

Wow! The one thing I learned right away about audio post-production purely from trial and error is that pitch and speed controls are my friend. Did you have a textbook for the class, or was it all instruction- and "lab"-based? What sucked was that there were no film production courses whatsoever where I went to college.

Well I actually didn't make it to that class before switching majors . The most important book that they used for the Music Engineering program though was Principles of Digital Audio by Ken Pohlman. He was our professor, and that's the book you would use ANYWHERE you took digital audio courses. Dunno if they had another book for audio post, in which case I have no idea, but that's a good book to have anyway.