DBAudio UPDATE

Hey Everyone,

Today Derek and I went to DB Audio to screen the finished film with new sound effects and Music. I honestly didn't really know what to expect, as how much more of a difference can some different punch and explosion sounds make?

I have to say that after watching it I was very impressed! the music has a sortof Jungle/Orchestral vibe to it, lots of drums- and they had a guy in recording Gorilla Sounds, Guerrilla breathing sounds (which works awesome in Robs pull through the tree scene) Soldier falling off branch yell, etc. The ending is no longer a let down, they managed to improve the feeling of suspense when on the waterfall and transition it to peace for the ending quite nicely in my opinion-

Unfortunately they found out nearing completion that the music they used from their new sound library was only licensed for use on websites, home use, etc for free- Things such as film festivals and such would cost a certain amount based on how much of the music is used. If it isn't too expensive I think it might be worth checking out some film festivals, probably limiting it a bit as we might have to pay for each... we will see.

You may be saying to yourself.. "but what we had was fine! what was wrong with our version?" The answer of course is that nothing is wrong with the version we have, but DB Audio expressed a desire to (for Free) do the entire Soundtrack/Effects. Wanting mostly to have it as a means of advertisement for their company on their website, and of course if the film ever makes money with their audio, they would like to have some compensation for their efforts, but they of course expect no money for this otherwise which is awesome.

If anything it was just cool to see an actual sound studio work, and to witness a quality of work that we can strive for in our upcoming films. They are also going to write us up an invoice so we can see exactly how much something like this would cost (who knows, personal project down the road, professional project down the road...) These guys were super awesome to work with.

I hope no one feels left out, the meetings with them tended to be very last minute and of course restricted to people in the toronto area.. also taking a couple hours out of the work day..

Feel free to respond if you have any thoughts

Nate