As a follow up from the last blog post, we organized to meet up on the Wednesday of week 2, within this meeting I was pitched the initial project idea alongside other important information. For this meeting, everyone who would be working on the film was in attendance; this included the producer, script writers, director, the editors and the secondary sound guy. The director initially pitched the film idea to us all before asking us to chime in where we saw necessary, as I believe that i’m mainly involved in the project on a technical standpoint, I didn’t have much to say in terms of script writing or general creative direction. The secondary audio engineer did however so after the session we quickly came to the conclusion that I would be taking a more hands on approach to the on location recording whilst he would take more control during the post section, therefore playing to our strengths.
The main point I wanted to take from this meeting was a schedule of sorts, getting across the point that me and the other audio engineer would need around 10 days to 2 weeks to work on the film after a picture lock, allowing for a fleshed out piece of sound design after. We agreed that it would be benificial to get a picture lock 10 days before the deadline, we were also told that the producers didn’t require us to make a score so this meant we could focus more on the sound design side of the film as posed to designing a score.
After the session was complete, the producer sent me over various documents including a synopsis of the project and an in depth schedule of when I would be needed.