Tuesday, May 13
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(above) Jimmy Tomasello on acoustic and vocals  

Rob Fetters, Chris Arduser, and Bob Nyswonger, also known as the Psychodots, came into town this week for four days as part of our spring PRODUCTION-IN-ACTION. Part I took place Monday and Tuesday in the Flashpoint music recording studios as the band re-recorded Not a Pretty Face with Bernie Mack (below) engineering. During the afternoon session, RA students took the controls, punching through vocal parts for verses and choruses.

Part II takes place today and tomorrow on a soundstage where FP Film students will be involved in the shooting of a video for the song with Peter Hawley directing and Amy Rising producing.

Game and Animation students, who helped with our set-up on Monday, are also creating a game to go along with the video.

All in all, it’s another terrific immersive-learning experience for FP students.

Bernie, 
Just a quick note to let you know once again what a truly great experience we had yesterday.  We were so happy with the whole process and the sound of the CD.  I really can’t wait to hear what it will sound like once you and the students do some work to the tracks.  Everyone was so professional and friendly and made us feel like we were in great hands.  I think all of us felt that if the opportunity came around, we’d be thrilled to come back for another session.  Again, thank you so much.
Gail Katz
 

(Above)  Band Group Photo

(Above) Gail Katz on Vocals

Footsteps, cloth, and props. It’s messy; it’s physical; it’s a day in the life of a Foley Artist. Flashpoint Academy, in a continuing effort to bring high-profile, industry professionals inside the studios and classrooms of its educational facilities at 28 North Clark Street was fortunate enough to host Vincent Guisetti yesterday in two workshop sessions.

There was a simple theme to Vincent’s message: Foley effects can breathe life into faithful, but otherwise sterile, soundtracks for motion pictures. Though it’s not complicated, it does require an eye for frame accurate precision and a feel for the natural rhythms and cadences of actor’s movements. “You have to be willing to get inside a character’s head. In essence, become that character while you are performing Foley,” he said. Vincent treated our students to many of the stories of working on roughly 350 films, TV shows, and cartoons including Passion of the Christ, Mr. Brooks, Hostel parts I & II, The Pursuit of Happyness, Talladega Nights, Behind Enemy Lines, and the last five years of SpongeBob SquarePants.

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Bass

Acoustic Guitar

The Jug

Fiddle

Stomping

Vocals

Guitar

Bass

Mic Pre’s and EQ’s

Drums

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: Flashpoint, The Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, has purchased two TRUE Systems P-SOLO single-channel microphone/instrument preamplifiers and installed them in two sound-for-film suites in its new 32,000 square-feet production/post complex.

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AT 4050 on Vocals and Royer 121 on Banjo:

M200 on Acoustic Bass:

Drums:

421 and 451 on Sax:

Gefell M930’s on Acoustic:

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