I also have my own private collection I’m always out recording wherever I go.” Still, this project presented its particular challenges.
“At Skywalker Sound, we have a huge sound effects library of sounds that have been recorded since Star Wars, and we have the commercially available libraries as well. Much of this involved use of library material. So I had to manufacture the sound of thousands of people clapping in sync.”
There’s some songs where the audience is clapping along to the beat. “I have crowds in the background, crowds all around you. “In archival footage, the crowds are usually mono or stereo, and it’s just whatever’s bleeding into the vocal mics in some cases,” he says, adding that he was tasked with creating the crowds for each specific performance. Sound effects editor Pascal Garneau notes that creating authentic crowds in the concert scenes required delicate work. “We want to honor them, and we want to make it sound as close to what the filmmakers wanted as possible.” “We’re not interested in changing the Bee Gees’ sound,” Greber emphasizes. Rerecording mixers Gary Rizzo (an Oscar winner for Dunkirk and Inception) and Jeff King did the final mix. Greber adds that the sound editing team worked with stereo masters of the band’s songs, as well as with some stems (multiple tracks that made up a song).
Kamau Bell Interviews Multiracial Kids in HBO's '1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed' Trailer (Exclusive) It's as close to a total-immersion experience of the Bee Gees as one can have, short of listening to every record they ever made, and the live performance clips by themselves are worth the price of the disc.W. The menu opens up automatically on start-up and is very easy to maneuver around the supplements, in addition to the title-track video, include an hour's worth of interview segments with the group members, in which each one speaks at length on various biographical and musical subjects that couldn't be fit into the documentary as a whole. That oversight aside, the disc is beautifully produced, with a loud audio track that pumps up magnificently on a speaker system and is a match for the best audiophile CD sound.
There could (and should) be several dozen chapter markers, where there are but five at the 75-minute mark. The disc itself has only one notable flaw, in the chaptering, which isn't remotely as detailed or generous as it might be, considering the number of songs, significant biographical sections, and other highlights contained on it. Even the space given over to Andy Gibb's career and life is chosen judiciously and seamlessly interwoven into the larger story of the group. The program takes 45 minutes just getting to the beginning of 1969, but it never drags in its pacing - the balance between interviews and music (much of it excerpted from actual live performances) is perfect, bouncing between factual material and emotional recollection while focusing on the musical expression of both. The level of detail and the honesty in the storytelling are daunting, and even casual viewers will want to watch this disc several times simply to take in different aspects of the content.
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Part home movie, part reference book entry, and part best-of from whatever musical period in their history it happens to be covering, This Is Where I Came In covers just about every aspect of the Bee Gees' personal and professional lives, neatly interweaving the three stories and the multiple permutations of each. Biographical videos don't get much better than this - in fact, short of a ten-hour epic like The Beatles Anthology box, they just aren't any better.
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