If you don’t have a second engineer to work as your tape up, to start and stop the transport, and most importantly to slate the takes and document all the best ones, then finding the take that you loved can be like finding a needle in a haystack. So if you do a really good one and you want to find it later, just take a moment at the end. Mark it.
Mark it with a sharp clap. And now when you go back to sort through all those takes, you’ll be able to find it right away. So you want to find it later, just take a moment at the end.
And note this isn’t part of any lesson plan. It’s the sort of conversational insight that happens naturally in a small class with only a few people where interaction is the key ingredient. So if someone who belongs in an environment like that, then someone who belongs in a Beat Kitchen glass.
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