Video and Film
Not so much film is available these days, but there are filmed commercials existing somewhere for Hooters, for which Mr. Ball served as location sound (recordist) and post-production (sound design and re-recording mixer). They were indeed recorded on an open reel Nagra with Ampex tape and shot on film. Audio editing was on Pro Tools v1. These were aired nationally.
Production credits include multi-regional television commercials for GMC, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac. Feature-length films include Jenny's Girl (Supervising Sound Editor and Re-recording mixer) and Lucifer's Fall (Sound Supervisor, Scoring composer, Re-recording mixer). National television credits for a full season of Turner South's Yokel, a half-hour episodic, included Supervising Sound Editor and Re-recording mixer.
On PBS, two half-hour documentaries: "The Mysterious Lost State of Franklin", and "Fort Loudon: Forsaken by God and Man", narrated, then mixed in stereo and 5.1 surround, by Mr. Ball.
Here are three media pieces.
Production credits include multi-regional television commercials for GMC, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac. Feature-length films include Jenny's Girl (Supervising Sound Editor and Re-recording mixer) and Lucifer's Fall (Sound Supervisor, Scoring composer, Re-recording mixer). National television credits for a full season of Turner South's Yokel, a half-hour episodic, included Supervising Sound Editor and Re-recording mixer.
On PBS, two half-hour documentaries: "The Mysterious Lost State of Franklin", and "Fort Loudon: Forsaken by God and Man", narrated, then mixed in stereo and 5.1 surround, by Mr. Ball.
Here are three media pieces.
- The first is from Mr. Ball; an excerpt from the documentary The Mysterious Lost State of Franklin, with narration, Sound Design, and Re-Recording mix as credits. This half-hour doc will air nationally on PBS seven times over the next three years; the premiere is July 1, 2012, at 10:30pm. It has already aired many times on ETPBS and is the #1 most-bought DVD project in ETBPS history.
- The second is a student piece created with interdisciplinary media, all from within Pellissippi's Media department. Using pictures provided via Ron Goodrich from a Pellissippi photo journalism class, a student creatively cut the photos into a video stream. They were given wide creative license, but were instructed to let the pictures tell the story and not to use typical Ken Burns-like slow pushes or simple slideshow formatting. This means using Final Cut or Media Composer to create an innovative movie from a still shot sequence. After the creation of the video, the student was then required to create an original soundtrack to support the emotional and wordless narrative, whether they were musical or not, and were given guidance on how to approach such a task. Since only 3 keyboards are available (and none in the edit suites) this was a challenge to the students at many levels. Some remarked it was the most fulfilling of all the hands-on projects in Pro Tools II curriculum. It is the first project inside the Video Production Technology program which looks forward to a development of the audio curriculum into a proposed standalone 2-year AAS degree. This degree would include three emphasis areas for the student to choose: post-production, sound design/scoring, and recording technique.
- The third is a student mix of a national television commercial (albeit for Denmark). The video was locked; all sounds were already in place. Each student had to place a few sound effects in proper places, select music for a certain sequence, clean up one dialog clip, remove clicks and pops, insert proper EQ and dynamic processing, and mix the entire piece with appropriate balance. They were also introduced to the ITU1770-2 specification for television broadcast to ensure audio is in compliance with the new CALM act which is now law, regulating audio levels for broadcast. The CALM act with ITU1770-2 (A85) compliance was passed by Congress; it became effective December 2011. Pellissippi students were learning about it in the spring of 2011. This standard has been implemented world-wide. It is felt by Mr. Ball that all media graduates should be very aware of this US law-enforced standard and how to achieve compliance in their first job.