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Kicking Bird is the story of Martin "Bird" Johnson a 17 year old high school kid from the wrong side of the tracks who runs to escape his horrible life. With his Mother in prison,his Father has deserted the family and his bitter Grandfather beating him there’s nothing else to do but run! One day the sleazy high school cross country Coach see’s Martin out running his entire team and thinks this kid is his ticket to a college coaching career.

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What’s in "58 Things You Had Better Know About Sound Before Making Your First Feature?"

One of the most important things in any movie is sound. And the most important sound? It’s the dialog, stupid! If you can’t hear or understand the dialog, then you’re hosed. You’ve got nothing.

8.) There are three basic microphone pickup patterns, omnidirectional, cardioid, and hypercardioid. Omnidirectional is a microphone that picks up everything in all directions. A cardioid microphone picks up in a single direction, like a lavalier, or a wireless mic. A hypercardioid is a “shotgun” mic. It picks up everything in a cone-area of about 50 degrees in front of it.

20.) Don’t ever refer to your audio mix as sweetening! Sweetening is what you do to ice tea! We do not put sugar on our audio, ever! We mix sound; we blend the various elements together.


25.) Use your imagination when it comes to the sound track. What can you add as far as sound effects that will help tell your story? In Das Boot, the filmmakers made the submarine a character using sound effects. What can you do in your movie?