What is audio post-production?
Audio post-production is everything that happens to a film’s sound after the shoot. Location dialogue is cleaned and edited, lines that cannot be saved are re-recorded, footsteps and props are performed again as foley, effects and atmospheres are designed, the score is written, and all of it is balanced in the final mix.
Audiences rarely notice good film sound. They always notice bad sound, which is why the soundtrack is so often what separates a professional production from an amateur one.
Dialogue editing and ADR
Dialogue comes first. Noise, clothing rustle and room tone are cleaned out of the location recordings, and where a line is lost it is re-recorded in the studio through ADR (automated dialogue replacement), matched to the actor’s lips and to the sound of the original scene.
Foley recorded to picture
Foley is the craft of performing everyday sounds — footsteps, cloth, doors, cups, keys — in sync with the picture. Jaafar Khalafat, the studio’s post-production and foley artist, trained at SAE Amman and records foley to the cut in the studio, building the half of a film the audience never looks at but always feels. See his work.
Sound design, score and the final mix
Sound design builds the world of the film: atmospheres, transitions and effects that never existed on set. An original score can be composed in-house by the studio’s producers. The final mix balances dialogue, music and effects so the story stays clear in a cinema, on television or on a phone.
Location sound
Good post starts with good production sound. The studio’s field kit — a Sennheiser MKE 600 shotgun microphone, Sennheiser EW 112P G4 wireless lavaliers and a Zoom H6 recorder — covers boomed dialogue, location interviews and ambiences.
Who film post-production is for
Static Studios works on films, series, commercials and corporate videos for directors across Jordan and the wider region. Book a session on the booking calendar or send the cut to contact@thestaticstudios.com for a quote.
