Dialogue Editing

Production Sound Effects 301
picture editing, ask the editor to set aside important wild sounds, room tones,
backgrounds, and the like. It’s enormously easier for her to drop these treats
into an Avid bin as she fi nds them than for you to blindly wade through the
original tapes.
If the location recordist provided some stereo backgrounds, use them. Real,
appropriate stereo atmosphere will add a great deal of depth to your production
tracks. Be on the lookout for small sounds like footsteps and body
motions that can play the role of Foleys. And fi nd doors, cars, and other PFX
within the original recordings that you can use to beef up the track and
enhance the reality of the scenes.