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Martini Shot

Boom Shadow

Rob Long drives around and gets lost, and then does what people do when they're in the car and trying to figure things out: he turns down the radio.  It's a metaphor...

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By Rob Long • May 30, 2012 • 3m Listen

If you look at the production schedule of any television show, you'll notice an awful lot of stuff that comes under the heading of "post-production." There are color corrections, transfers, dirt fixes, mastering, onlining, sound mixes, all sorts of little adjustments to the sound and the picture – sometimes a week's worth of fiddling – so many processes, so much hard work, that it's hard to remember that in the end, the thing you've touched up and fussed over is just going to be blasted through the air...

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