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Audio for TV Series Community: Final mix takes place at Paramount Studios, everything else happens at The Barn. you got what you got.' " Binder and his team do the majority of the editing, sound design, ADR, Foley and premixing at The Barn, a studio owned by Binder, located just north of Burbank. His company, IMN Creatives (www.imakenoise.com), started out providing audio post services for feature films like Paranormal Activity and The Possession of Michael King. Community is their first foray into TV, and Binder was thrilled that they made the decision to do the show. "I now think everybody doing theatrical should have some experience of working in TV. It forces you to constantly use those muscles that allow you to jump in the cockpit and habitually attend what you're doing so you can really be creative on the spot." Binder feels the hardest part of TV is having to be creative quickly. When a client asks to hear the color orange, and something they never heard before, Binder is able to deliver. "If your muscles are trained and you don't get intimidated by the fact that you have to move fast, the magic comes a little easier." All the group walla is recorded at The Barn. The entire facility is set up for recording, so if they need to record a "group walk-by down the hall," they can do just it. Binder prefers to use multichannel mics, like the Holophone H2 and the DPA 5100 (which resembles a large bicycle seat in shape) instead of a standard boom mic. "The Barn was designed to be a recording instrument. It has hallways, and dry rooms, and live rooms, and bathrooms, and since we built the facility from scratch, I wired everything. A walk-by in Community is literally someone walking down a hall, and it's recorded in LCR." The Barn's location is so quiet, they can record outdoors, and they use iPads to stream the video, so they are able to record outdoors in sync. Binder recalls recording the walla group outdoors for a paintball episode. He had the walla group shouting things like, "I'll kill you," and screaming bloody murder at the top of their lungs. After recording what they needed, Binder and his team went back inside to record the interior group wallas. During their recording, he heard a loud knocking on the door. "I opened the door and, I kid you not, there were three cops out there, with their guns drawn, saying there was a disturbance reported. Someone said they heard a woman screaming for her life. Of course when we opened the door they could see that it was a recording environment, but even so, I took my hands out of my pockets very slowly, and said, 'I swear to god we're just recording some sound here.' Nonetheless, Shared Storage for Your Long-Term Archive. Winner of the 2012 Hollywood Post Alliance Engineering Excellence Award S Y S T E M S , I N C . S Y S T E M S , I N C . S Y S T E M S , I N C . ® Shared Storage for Your Long-term Archive StrongBox is a powerful archive solution, purpose-built to keep your files safe, accessible and at your fingertips. Files stored in this NAS target can be accessed from multiple editing stations or end users – no call to engineering required. Harness the cost-effectiveness of LTFS, empowering faster, more seamless workflows. Spend more time creating - less time managing data. Post0413_034-36, 38-40,42,51-AudioRAV5FINALREAD.indd 36 Bring On Your Big Data! www.getstrongbox.com 3/26/13 7:41 PM