Location Sound Workshop at RFS

Published on: 20th September, 2009

Though we might think of film as an essentially visual experience, we really cannot afford to underestimate the importance of film sound.

Audio seems to be one of the most challenging areas for beginners and even experienced filmmakers alike. Video professionals typically find sound one of the most challenging aspects of production.

A meaningful sound track is often as complicated as the image on the screen.

The entire sound track is comprised of three essential ingredients:

• The human voice (Dialogue track)
• Sound effects (Fx track)
• Music (Background music track)

This Location Sound workshop will focus on both mixing and recording sound tracks. This workshop will look at a variety of microphones and techniques, as well as the theoretical background information needed by the film school students. The course is aimed at the film students to improve their sound mixing and recording techniques. This workshop helps the students looking to find out how to get better sound for their films.

This workshop is lead by Mr Elangovan, Chennai based Sound Recordist. Elangovan graduated from Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. He has more than fifteen years of experience in all genres of film and video. Elangovan has worked with various Indian and foreign film crews.

Select audiography

• ‘Pedaling to freedom’, a PSBT documentary, 2007.
• ‘Framed’, an Indian English feature, 2006.
• ‘Chennai, the split city’, documentary, 2006.
• ‘Popcarn’, Tamil feature film, 2003.
• ‘Dalit Christians’, BBC documentary, 1995.
• ‘Madras eye’, 16mm, docu-fiction, Italian production, 1997.
• ‘The bee, the bear and the kuruba’, 16mm documentary film, 16mm, 2000.
• Sound recordist for a video production on tribals of Nilgiris produced by IKON
• TV Network, Netherlands, 1996.
• ‘Living tradition – Shilpi Speaks’, 35mm. documentary, 1991.
• ‘Lalgudi Jayaraman’, Documentary, 2008.

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