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Hi friends, Here is a video interview with Manik Batra, a reputed production sound mixer who has been working in Mumbai since 2008. He has worked on numerous feature films, ad films, Netflix projects, etc... In conversation with will be a series of video interviews of prominent people from our industry. This is the first one in that series. Manik talks about: How his journey began (00:10) Talks about his early days (01:05) The audio recorders he has worked on (06:10) His wish list for a film shoot (08:14) About ADR films (11:26) About sync sound shoots (13:27) About the shoot of '83 (15:26) About working on a Netflix project (19:56) About what needs to change in the Industry (23:12) About life during the lockdown (25:23) About shoots starting post the Covid-19 lockdown (27:23) Hope you like this. Until next time, CC Blog: www.thesoundblog.in Website: www.cheeragcama.com E-mail: cheerag.cama@gmail.com Twitter: @cheragc PS: The music used in...

I have been freelancing as a feature film production sound mixer and television mixer for quite some time now. Every shoot is a collaboration of many many people, belonging to different departments, each doing a specialised job and working towards a common goal...to make a good film or a good television show. A lot of planning goes into getting a day's work go off smoothly, but in spite of the best of efforts towards this goal, things do go awry at times….a new camera turns up without cards, a portion of a set collapses due to overnight rain, the colour on the walls of the set don’t turn out the way the director expected them to...and most filmmakers get going with the shoot in spite of accidents, mistakes, errors, setbacks and upsets. People improvise, innovate, change, adapt….but the shoot must go on. Every department faces problems. Be it the art dept, casting, production, camera, ….. everybody faces problems at some time or another. Some problems are purely due to...