Wow... amazing stuff.

ouch.... for craziness :)

But - thumbs up for the production... really, crazy...

So if all of us compared our performance with that... how many percent...?
0%= No cutting, just put whole clips and render, done.
100%=You are a super Editor!

The 'little' home theatre is really groovy. Complete with little starry lights inset in the ceiling ;-)

geoff

I need a beard plug-in.... SCS are you listening? Oh, fix the bugs first! (;

Thanks for sharing this. Very interesting!

One thing that did astonish me was the segment at Abbey Road Studios, preparing for the soundtrack recording:

"The musicians will see the music for the first time. They don't rehearse it, or anything like that. They just turn up, the sheet music is in front of them, and they play..."

I'd somehow always imagined that the musicians would receive a packet of music at home or whatever, and have a week or two to get familiar with it before the recording session, etc. I guess musicians like that certainly deserve to be called "professional".

Each musician in that studio is being paid scale ($100+/hr, probably more in London), so time is everything.

Although I carried the AFM card in the seventies, I vastly prefer working with amateur and non-equity musicians, so we can actually rehearse and get to know each other. There is a comfort level knowing that opening night is not just the second time they've played together.

Forget about paying the musicians, I couldn't afford 96 mic leads and stands to say nothing of 96+ Neumann mics, music stands and chairs.

Bob.

Yeah, rehearsing is for cowards, no?
I recorded music with some such professional musicians at Anvil Studios, Denham (before they moved in at Abbey Road). Not only did they play prima vista, but one of them (Pat Halling – google him if you like) looked cooly at the score I had sweated over for weeks, pointed with his bow and said: “Did you mean to put a sharp sign there?”

Also The Hobbit will be High-frame-rate (HFR) 3D format = 48 frames per second resulting in images that are more lifelike.

I began my career many years ago at a recording studio in Hollywood that had 2 large scoring stages. This was before (during and after) the big Musician's strike of 1980 that dramatically changed the face of scoring. In the good old days, almost every tv show and film was scored, lots of work out there. I can attest to the stories that some of the 1st violin session guys drove Bentleys and Rolls
Royces. Far cry from today. As far as first takes go, I worked daily on movie and tv scores and never did the orchestra NOT rehearse a cue unless it was just a slight variation of a previous cue, which is quite common. Most times, especially if it was a major theme, it would be rehearsed 2 times or more before recording, with the conductor and or composer making changes on the fly.

I'm having small chat with friend, pianist, ask her 'the same situation', play without rehearsal.
This ability is called as "Sight Reading"
Not an easy thing to do including herself.