Place the audience in context and focus their attention on a specific action. Atmospheres and sound effects are key elements of sound editing.
Sound editing: the first essential step in giving sonic life to your production
It may play a more or less important role depending on the type of programme. For example:
- For a news report: it is relatively light and most of the time consists of simple track cleaning and working on the edit points to keep everything smooth and intelligible.
- For a documentary: again, it will be more focused on voices and production ambiences. It may require careful work on ambience transitions, rhythm and music so that your documentary is fully enhanced.
- For a web documentary: it will generally be simpler than a documentary intended for HDTV broadcast. Nevertheless, the principles remain the same: voices, ambience transitions and music. But, due to the specific nature of online distribution, the sound elements must not be too numerous or too dense.
- For a fiction project: this is where sound editing takes on its full dimension, because ambiences often have to be added or recreated, and the main elements fully sound-designed (doors, footsteps, car engines, etc.).
- For a live music programme / live show: the techniques are very different from those described above. Such a production requires strong skills in music editing and mixing (a core, historical activity of Pascal 'pako' Flork), and more broadly a solid musical culture. Often, the “editing” work in music and live performance is about conforming the multitrack recordings to the picture edit, selecting and cleaning the multitrack sources and, when possible, retiming them to make the live performance feel more produced. Good music editing is already half of the mix done in advance.
A sound library rich in original creations and custom-made sounds
Sound design for film and HD
Cinema and HDTV films, as well as documentaries, require detailed sound work to illustrate as faithfully as possible what is happening on screen, but also off-screen, in order to place the viewer at the heart of the action. This work is even more essential for HDTV programmes which, in addition to image definition, are enhanced by 5.1 mixing (Dolby Digital format).
A large, original sound library
pascalflork.eu currently has a 4 TB sound library. In practical terms, this represents thousands of original sounds, prepared both for stereo programmes and for 5.1 formats intended for HDTV or cinema.
90% of these sounds do not come from commercial libraries, but have been recorded or created by Pascal 'pako' Flork. Today, it is all too common to hear the same door slams, footsteps or generic ambiences reused across many drama productions.
The sound library of pascalflork.eu is constantly evolving. It is regularly enriched with new sounds recorded in everyday real-life contexts.
Custom sound effects
pascalflork.eu also has dedicated facilities for creating sound effects: equipment, recording locations, and a practiced, creative and fast working approach.
Feel free to describe your needs regarding sound design and bespoke sound effects to pascalflork.eu.
Custom music
Pascal Flork has in-house music production capabilities. These are complemented by a wide network of songwriters and composers met over the years, which we can rely on – and with whom you can be directly put in contact.
