Gideon's Promise
PSA | 2022
Dialog editing/mix
I was proud to work on this PSA for Gideon's Promise, an organization I admire.
I was brought on board to do a fair amount of cleanup to the dialog, as well as the mix and master. There had been a mishap on set that cause some of the lavaliere audio to be unusable which meant that a few setups only had boom-microphone audio available. Because they shot in gigantic bricked-walled rooms, some of the dialog sounded incredibly boomy with a lot of reverb.
De-reverbing and de-noising can be pretty tricky. It's very easy to overdo it and end up with audio that sounds unnatural and garbled. I used a variety of methods and tools, including iZotope RX10, to clean up the problematic audio, and treated the overall mix in such a way that (hopefully) the listener would be unable to identify which interviews had poor audio.