| Sound for Film and Television, Second Edition (Book & CD-ROM) | 
| Author: Tomlinson Holman
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (9 reviews)
Sales Rank: 201065
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0240804538
Dewey Decimal Number: 620
EAN: 9780240804538
ASIN: 0240804538
Publication Date: December 2001
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Product Description
Sound for Film and Television, Second Edition provides a thorough introduction to the fascinating field of recording, editing, mixing, and exhibiting film and television sound. It strikes a fine balance between aesthetic and technical content, combining theory and practice to approach sound as both an art and a science, as no other text has before. This edition includes new information on digital techniques as they have arisen in the industry, and expanded coverage of sound editing and design.
Written by one of Hollywood's leading sound experts, Sound for Film and Television, Second Edition provides a solid grounding in all aspects of the sound process. Basic principles are presented with illustrations demonstrating how they affect the day-to-day activities on a film or television set, in the editing room, and in the mix room.
*The only text to present sound design as both an art and a science
*Accompanying audio CD contains examples demonstrating key concepts
*Bridges the gap between production books and design engineering books
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 Sound for Film and Television July 28, 2008
Great book, very easy to read and follow... it's like a boot camp course. It's written by an eminence in the industry, Tomlinson Holman, who has a vast experience within the audio industry. If you are serious about post-production, this book is a must have.
Raul Torres
Puerto Rico
 Lazy Writing Makes This More Grueling Than an Instruction Manual November 10, 2007
This book is an excruciating read and, if it didn't hold information I need, I'd toss it from my book stacks with satisfaction. Holman is clearly not a gifted writer and appears to have little interest in attempting to achieve such status. What you get with SOUND for Film and Television is like a condensed instruction manual for the study, technical names and mechanics screwed together with lazy, careless language. Forget skipping through to the middle to read up on a particular microphone, the crammed description will be completely composed of references to complex information from past chapters. You will have to read it through, as arduous (and potentially impossible) as the task may be, to access any of the valuable details buried within.
Author knows what he is speaking about July 22, 2007
The book covers comprehensive topics about its subject: from psychoacoustics to (for example) sound editing techniques to (for example) film sound synchronization methods to (in the last chapter) dynamic range for various media for master prints. First that comes to mind when I remember the accompanying CD is the demonstrations of various microphone directivity patterns (but there is something more in it).
The topics aren't discussed in very deep levels (but are good enough), but are reinforced with author's wide experience I would like to admit (examples how the sound was worked out are taken from such films as "Jurassic Park", "Star Wars"). I found this book very interesting as I didn't know very much about film sound techniques, for specialists this book is of lower interest I think (although it contains some handy material, e.g. comparisons of various sound recording formats, etc.)
Contains some errata, but I cannot find it right now.
1 of 3 great books on film/video sound December 28, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book though it contains many errors in the mathematics of decibels. The other 2 greats books are: Audio in Media by Stanley R. Alten and Sound for Picture by Tom Kenny.
The Best Intro you will ever have April 13, 2002
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
An easy to read, logical guide to practical production sound. If you only ever read one book on audio this should be it.
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