Lost Tribute (48)
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This evening I was experimenting with some of my audio equipment to get some hands on experience with Pro Tools, which is the audio equivalent to Avid. While working at Avid Technology I purchased a lot of equipment from Digidesign and M-Audio, who are subsidiaries of Avid, so that I could learn more about audio production. In college I had a couple classes that gave me experience with audio editing, but I didn’t commit a lot of the information to memory back then.

So while playing with the new keyboard I let the computer record everything in case something interesting happened. I ended up playing a few chords that reminded me of Michael Giacchino’s compositions for the television show “Lost”. So I layered a few more tracks to the two-minute song and decided to post it on my site so that film students and independent film makers could use the song in one of their productions. I licensed it under a Creative Commons license, which gives you full permission to use it in commercial work and make modifications to it. You can listen to the song below or download it from the license box at the top of this article.

An interesting sidenote. While working at Avid I had a chance to meet the editor for the television series “Lost”. Steven Semel ended up playing a small role in one of the episodes as one of the “others” on the island. He was on set in Hawaii considering directing a future episode when he was asked to read for the small role while overseeing a casting session.

A few years ago I fell in love the the HBO television miniseries “Band of Brothers”. At the same time I happened to also fall in love with the video game “Call of Duty”. My two loves collided when I was asked to come up with a scene from a movie or television that I would have to remake the audio for a class project. Right away I knew that I wanted to try a scene from “Band of Brothers” because the movie had a lot of intense scenes with a lot of great sounds that I could try to recreate. Our school offered a sound library for us to use, but the collection of gunshots and tank fire just didn’t cut it. So I decided to try to recreate the soundtrack for the scene using only sounds from the video game audio library for “Call of Duty”. The end result is something I’m really proud of seeing that I was working with such a limited library and had no access to actors for ADR (Automatic Dialog Replacement). Video on the jump.