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 Topic: "Dearly Departed" audio question( Topic Closed) |
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jayzehr
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 Topic: "Dearly Departed" audio questionPosted: 7/02/08 at 12:24pm |
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For anyone who has done this show--How did you handle the offstage organ during the funeral scenes?
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GoldCanyonLady
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Posted: 7/02/08 at 12:51pm |
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I haven't done that show, but I would use taped organ music and play it back stage using some sort of amplification. When we want sound to be like the real thing (toilet flushing, telephone ring etc) we do just that through our laptop and use old PC woofer and speakers etc to broadcast it back stage. The sound comes through nicely and that way it sounds like it is coming from the right place.
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Barb Hofmeister,
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jayzehr
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Posted: 7/02/08 at 2:21pm |
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I was hoping to do that. The problem I'm seeing is that there are changes in the music that are contingent on lines of dialogue and I'm not quite sure how to work that.
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MartyW
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Posted: 7/02/08 at 3:07pm |
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We taped it in sequence and timed with a run of the lines.. then the lines needed to time to (ahead) of the music.
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Marty W
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GoldCanyonLady
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Posted: 7/03/08 at 10:20am |
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Our sound effects person sits at the computer behind the flats and listens and hits the play button at the right time. We have used this for all of our sound effects and some have been complicated. Works just fine.
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Barb Hofmeister,
MountainBrook Village Players, Gold Canyon, Arizona. |
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Mr. Lowell
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Posted: 7/03/08 at 11:52am |
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We had a girl upstage playing an electric piano that was set to "organ" mode. She appeared as a very elderly lady and got some good laughs.
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Mr. Lowell,
Lighting/Set Designer & Tech Director, for the Linda Sloan Theatre, in the Davison Center for the Arts, at Greensboro Day School |
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JoeMc
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Posted: 7/04/08 at 6:03am |
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I don't know the show, but when ever we have had dialogue, that is inter dispersed thru a piece of music &/or song. We have just pburnt it on a CD, with each cue separated on the tracks. One that comes to mind had a t least 25 music pieces, some of less than a bar, through a section of dialogue. The audio bod just hit the next track button when the cue come up. Worked great!
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"Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
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Kathy S
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Posted: 7/21/08 at 2:58am |
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We had our "Veda" play an electric keyboard backstage. It worked great. She also was one of the Joy of Life Singers and played the accordian for that scene. |
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