A bit of a change today when a friend of David’s brought in a binaural head named Fritz. Apparently these are very rare (only 22 of them in the world!). What is it? At first it seems simple : a mannequinesque head with microphones planted in the ears to simulate the experience of listening. Understand, there are actual ears because the shape of the ear does indeed effect the way we hear. To be more accurate it helps us orient sounds in the space around us. To highlight this effect David had arranged to have this head put into the center of a fight scene to (hopefully) emulate the experience of the fight happening around the hero. The fight scene is pretty intense (seems like about 10-15 people are involved). All in all, it went well. I was thrust into the position of Mixer as Dave was mixing on the other set. Still, it was over all to quickly as the stunt guys had to get to lunch.
One of the pics is of Dave Weininger, a really cool guy who brought and is pictured here w/ Fritz. That link on his name will give you a glimpse of how much of a mad scientist this guy is. The other pictures of are of some seriously real looking fake guys. It took me walking over to check these guys out several times before I believed they were “really” “not real.” Ah, movie magic.
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Fritz is the man!