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For this issue, we focus our attention on AUDIO DEPARTMENT just one of the sixteen different categories that comprise Local 695. We have four RENTALS SALES SERVICE articles from members who specialize in music for cinema and TV, and they provide www.audiodept.com Toll Free (877) 566-6526 us with their perspectives on doing play- 2700 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505 back, pre-records and live recording. Phillip Palmer tells us about the challenges of Glee, where he often handles up to six musical numbers per episode. Nashville has an equally ambitious agenda and Anna Wilborn tells us how Joe Foglia handles those tasks with grace and wit. Gary Raymond addresses the technical requirements of file formats for playback and Joseph Magee shares the lessons he’s learned over several decades of working with music in both production and post production. Playback and live-record have their own lingo and some equipment may be unfa- miliar even to working professionals. We’ve included a glossary of specialized 311 West 43rd Street, Suite 1100 ● New York, NY 10036 ● Tel: 212.586.1033 terms at the end of each article for the benefit of our non-technical readers and 1515 South Salcedo Street, Suite #130 ● New Orleans, LA 70125 ● Tel: 504.309.7112 members working outside these particu- lar disciplines. We think you’ll find good reading, and we are pleased to shine a light on a creative Best Animated Feature field that deserves more attention. Best Sound Mixing Fraternally yours, Best Sound Editing David Waelder, Eric Pierce and Richard Lightstone 4 ©2013 Disney/Pixar WaltDisneyStudiosAwards.com Monsters University 695 Quarterly - Issue date: Fall 2013 v1 Bleed: 8-5/8" x 11-1/8" Trim: 8-3/8" x 10-7/8" colorproof #2 Nov. 22, 2013 10:30am Live: 7-7/8" x 10-3/8" FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION From the President Dear Fellow Members, This has been a hard year issues that matter to you and engage. Join committees and for many of our members express your real-life experience in the development of as the business continues to policy. Your representatives can best focus resources when THE WOLF morph into more and more they have regular input; the institution draws its strength unrecognizable forms. I say to from the participation of its members. those most affected by these stormy waters: keep heart Exercise your right to vote in this election. Make yourself OF WALL STREET and positive in spirit. Take this heard. time to double down on the new knowledge needed to This holiday season is a time for reflection and strategy and BEST SOUND MIXING stay at the top of your craft. Take this time to become more this is where we should be placing our creative energies. fully informed about the obligation of service your union JAMES SABAT TOM FLEISCHMAN, C.A.S. holds for you and how to best access this resource for your I wish you and your families well and safe holidays to all. particular situation. When you act with knowledge, you leverage the strengths of professional union representation. Warmest regards and Fraternally, BEST SOUND EDITING Read the Local’s Constitution and By-Laws and the contracts Mark Ulano PHILIP STOCKTON EUGENE GEARTY under which we work, all available on our official website. President Know what you’re paying for and what your rights are. Don’t IATSE Local 695 be timidZaxcom_695_Nomad_HR.pdf about the relationship 2/3/12 with your 4:59:26 union. PM Define the AUDIOAUDIO WITHOUTWITHOUT LIMITS!LIMITS! 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Local 695 Production Sound Technicians, Television Engineers, Joseph Magee, CAS Video Assist Technicians and Joseph Magee’s twenty-plus years of work in music record and playback Studio Projectionists encompasses both production and post-production work. He has com- Certified & Chartered September 15, 1930 pleted work on more than eighty features and won two Golden Reel A California Nonprofit Labor Corporation Awards and a Grammy nomination. Incorporated July 31, 1951, State of California Affiliated with the A.F.L.-C.I.O., California State Federation of Labor, and L.A. Central Labor Council Phillip W. Palmer, CAS Phillip Palmer has worked in production sound for twenty-five years, 5439 Cahuenga Blvd. mixing for the last fourteen. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles North Hollywood, CA 91601 as the Production Sound Mixer on Glee for FOX Television. (818) 985-9204 (323) 877-1052 (818) 760-4681 fax [email protected] www.695.com Gary Raymond ——————————— Gary Raymond has provided Music Playback on more than eighty-five films and TV shows and has an Emmy Certificate for Best Sound for Scrubs BUSINESS Representative and Castle and Emmy nominations for Dexter. Recent projects include Love James Osburn and Mercy (the Brian Wilson/Beach Boys film), The Originals and Get On Up (the James Brown bio picture). PRESIDENT Mark Ulano VICE PRESIDENT Scott Smith, CAS Jay Patterson A forty-year veteran of the music and film business, Mr. Smith has handled the sound recording duties on over forty feature films and TV SECRETARY-TREASURER productions. He is a two-time Oscar nominee and the recipient of the Susan Moore-Chong CAS Award and BAFTA Award for Best Sound for The Fugitive. Mr. Smith is principal owner of Chicago Audio Works, which provides production RECORDING SECRETARY sound and related post services for film and TV productions nationwide. Elizabeth Alvarez SERGEANT-AT-ARMS Dean Striepeke Anna Wilborn Anna began her career in Post till bitten by the production bug in 2005. EXECUTIVE BOARD A native Los Angeleno, USC alum and second-generation Local 695 Laurence B.