Re: [MDOsprey] "Life of Bbirds" Technical Question
GAIL@UMDD.UMD.EDU
Wed, 28 Jul 99 14:47:35 EDT
Hi --
The answer is, they do not -- the sounds are, in the vast majority of cases,
added afterwards. Sound technicians have a wide variety of tricks to
mimic whir of wings, flapping, footsteps, etc. Once I watched a very good
film of a leopard walking through grass, and it crunched, crunched quite
loudly -- although I strongly suspect that in real life it was completely
silent like the leopard we saw (but did NOT hear) walking through dry
grass last December in Africa.
Either Discovery or Nature had a program where top wildlife photographers
displayed their techniques, which included editing tricks and sound dubbing.
Sometimes background sounds are recorded at the same time and remixed into
the final video, as well. But I suspect the wing flapping was added in the
studio.
Gail Mackiernan