Charlie Productions : Re-Recording Mixer

This is the proper name for it. Jules insists on it, despite us always thinking of him as our 'Sound Designer'. We'd be hard pushed to tell you what the differences between the two jobs are - in fact we'll have to simply lay that one at Jules' door.

But this is our experience of the experience. The Re-Recording Mixer will be in charge of your sound post, laying together the sound already recorded from the shoot, both dialogue and extras, whilst re-recording any dialogue that needs to either be changed or done again because the original isn't useable for whatever reason, and then laying in all the extra sound effects to be had from stuff they go out and record, stuff they've already got in their library, and stuff that they make up in their studio along with foley artists - or indeed Ben rubbing a soapy banana vigorously ...

It's all terrific fun and we love to be involved - it being a process of adding sounds, it is tremendously creative, right up to the point when it all has to be mixed together, when it becomes nitpickery on a scale just as high as doing a picture grade, but without the ease of pointing at a particular point of the screen and saying "not that".

Instead our cloth ears and battered minds struggle to identify the correct words to convey the feeling we have that says we're not quite there with the mix, with whichever effect is on whichever sound - and they all affect one another.

It's certainly enough for us to know that we LOVE to work with a Re-Recording Mixer - someone who has the ear and the skill to draw out the correct aspects of each element of the sound design in ways that we'd still be struggling to do, three years on...

Charlie Productions believe passionately in doing things and always trying to stop in time for tea.

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