From the director of NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD, Mark Hartley, comes this ode to the frenetic filmmaking in the Philippines!

Uncut.
Unleashed.
UNBELIEVABLE!

‘Machete Maidens Unleashed is a profile of exploitation film set in the steamy jungles of the Philippines, where enterprising filmmakers, specializing in garbage, could go and make the most of their movie dollar in a setting where you didn’t have to deal with unions and regulations. The result was a boom of coked-out action and horror movies that tossed aside all notions of human decency and catered to low-lifes everywhere.’

Here is where the NSFW trailer resides.

Enjoy (you low-lifes)

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(Via Pulp 2.0.)

Christoph Schlingensief ist leider heute verstorben. Vor vielen Jahren hat mich seine Sendung U3000 auf MTV beeindruckt. Das war wirklich subversives Fernsehen, was es sonst nicht zu sehen gab. Bei Youtube findet man ein Best of in zwei Folgen:

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(Via netzpolitik.org.)

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Continuing with the Sound Essentials series, articles created to provide resources and tips to learn sound design. Since I give the first list of recommended books, some people told me if we could recommend more of them, ans the answer is: yes. Buy software, buy gear, it’s ok, but also buy Books! I consider them as one of the best ways to spend money, and come on, they’re cheap. Excellent value for the money.

So, here is a list of more books (in no particular order), enough to don’t stop reading about sound this year.

The Sound Effects Bible - Ric Viers said it and did it. On this book he puts everything he knows about sound effects, from beginner topics to intermediate and advanced tips to create sound effects. You’ll learn everything from digital audio and software to studio equipment, field recording and sound design techniques. The Commandments Chapters are really great and has the wonderful ‘Sound Effects Encyclopedia’ section with tips and tricks to create a lot of different sound effects.

Soundscape: The School of Sound Lectures 1998 – 2001 - This book is a kind of magic source. Each time you read it again, you found more and more good info. The book contains fantastic articles, lectures and investigations made on The Shcol of Sound event between 1998 and 2001. Secrets, stories, tips, techniques, thoughts, and everything you want to know from the masters, edited by Larry Sider.

Sound-On-Film: Interviews with the creators of Film Sound- This is one of my favorites. The sound on film didn’t come from nowhere. What we have now has been the result of the efforts of many masters of sound. This book collects interviews, experiences, stories, and the theory of several of the most important figures in the evolution of sound in cinema.

Sound Theory, Sound Practice - A great book to know about the fundamental theory of sound in cinema, form historical aspects to deep theory and fantastic information on different prespectives, genres and the different ways to deal with film sound.

Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema – David Sonnenschein did a great work with this book, putting great information about how you can approach sound in cinema, with a really detailed guide covering psychological, narrative, expressive and technical aspects with awesome analysis of sound on film, quotes by other sound designer and a really great feature called ‘Try this’. This is one of my latest reads and I loved it.

Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures: A guide to the invisible art - Some times people don’t think about dialogue as a very important part of a movie. This book gives you a journey through the world of dialogue recording and editing, with theory, techniques and tricks to get the most of the dialogues in your productions.

If you want to read the contents of the books before buy it, or don’t have money or a good way to get any of those books, I made a list of sound design books on Google Books. Some of them has a large preview of many chapters available to read and some are more limited. Check:

• Soundscape
• The Foley Grail
• Sound for Picture
• Sound Design and Science Fiction
• Sound Theory, Sound Practice
• Sound-On-Film
• Sound for Film and Television
• The Dolby Era
• Game Sound
• Audio Programming for Interactive Games
• Computer Sound Design

Enjoy!

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(Via Designing Sound.)

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Part 2

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Part 3

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Part 4

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I will post some notes to each episode soon.

Episode 1

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Episode 2

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Episode 3

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Episode 4

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Episode 5

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Episode 9

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Episode 17

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We will leave in a couple of hours, and I will be offline again, approximately a couple of days.

We just finished our 7th episode yesterday, it will be online this evening. We tested my Zylight Z90 with the one which belongs to the studio equipment on board, the bluetooth link feature is really nice! I would love to spent more time on creating light, but it usually is not possible because of time schedules.

I will post YouTube links next time!

I tried the GoPro HD inside the well lit engine rooms, it was a successful recording. I did use not this material, because it did not fit in the producer´s vision, but now we know what is possible and what is not.

In the afternoon, we edited and choose the music.

Day 9 is th day we moved on the ship. In the afternoon, we did some additional shooting at the brewery. Andreas actually brewed beer, and these were the missing pictures.

There was some confusion with our cabins, but now we are almost ready to go, if I had a table to setup my studio equipment… The room is very small to work for two persons. I hope to get a table during the next hour, waiting for a call…

I tried the GoPro HD inside the well lit engine rooms, it was a successful recording. I did use not this material, because it did not fit in the producer´s vision, but now we know what is possible and what is not.

In the afternoon, we edited and choose the music.

Day 9 is th day we moved on the ship. In the afternoon, we did some additional shooting at the brewery. Andreas actually brewed beer, and these were the missing pictures.

There was some confusion with our cabins, but now we are almost ready to go, if I had a table to setup my studio equipment… The room is very small to work for two persons. I hope to get a table during the next hour, waiting for a call…

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