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Melissa Pons

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Category: Documentary

November 11, 2017February 10, 2018melissa pons

Using Sound Design to reveal the under layers

Two films I am involved in inspired me mostly to write this article. I have been giving this matter a lot of thought, which bursted particularly while working for 8 months on history and social related TV programs with a regular interview / stock footage format (which unfortunately felt kind of flat). One is an […]

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June 25, 2014September 22, 2016melissa pons

Documentary Production I – Some Answers

Hello! For whoever not familiar where this article comes from, you can read the first one here. In there, I ask a lot of questions for an evolving documentary film where I have the luxury to have a lot of time to think of. Recently, we made a video teaser-like, in which some of the […]

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June 3, 2014January 2, 2016melissa pons

Awareness with Field Recording

Hello! As you probably know, lately I’ve doing a lot field recording for Iterance, a documentary I am working on. We have been recording and filming at places that were once functioning factories. All these places are now ruins, so they are partially destroyed with interesting remaining of what once was. While the picture is […]

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January 15, 2014October 5, 2015melissa pons

Documentary Pre-Production

Last week, audio work for a documentary, from Sérgio Miguel Silva just started and I feel grateful for the opportunity to intervene from the very beginning, as sound will also have an essential role telling stories and portraying voices that the visuals won’t be able to do so at a full extent (although incredibly powerful […]

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