When I heard that Mark Berger was not going to be able to make it to sound class yesterday I was a little upset. Mark has done a good job of exciting and teaching us one of the most neglected aspects of film, sound. However, luckily for us David Bergad was able to fill in. I’ve meet David several times before in this building, where he works on the Seventh Floor with all the big players at the SZMC. I always knew him to be very professional, humorous, and down to earth but I had no idea the level of knowledge of sound he possessed. He started out by showing us his resume http://imdb.com/name/nm0073933/ , it was quite impressive. He then wasted no time jumping into instruction about the different jobs in the sound department. His level of detail and understanding really helped in his explanation of each role. He talked to us about mixing and sound recording. He showed us examples of some of the work he has done and gave us the background story behind the sound in each of the movies he displayed. By far this had been one of the best lectures covering some many topics in just three hours. I hope he comes back to teach us again. There is really so much more to learn about sound. After all as David says it’s 50% of the movie.

I woke up this morning, having come off of a very long day, in quite a good mood. All it took was to think about how amazing the footage we got yesterday was. Colin went the extra mile and managed to get a 35mm adapter for the schools Panasonic HVX-200. The soft detail on the images made it look so filmic. The whole shoot made me remember why I want to get into the film industry. We all had so much fun. It was the first time most of us had used a 35mm adapter with Zeiss lenses first hand, we all felt like we had learned something in the process. I have been on some independent film shoots with decent budgets before outside the school and Colin’s shoot seemed the closest to that feeling than any other I had been on here. Colin was treated like a true Director. What ever he asked for, we as the crew, were there to give it to him. To see such great footage come from a student shoot it just gives me hope for my next project to turn out that good. I better start planning my next production.