Here’s that eternal question again: how do you know when whatever you’re working on is good enough? Today, two perspectives.
The Oscar-winning sound designer Walter Murch, speaking Friday night at the Rafael Film Center in San Rafael California, told about talking shop with Michael Jackson’s engineers. They told Murch that they had no special insight, they just tried one mix after another as Jackson sat in the back, silent. They knew they had it right when he got up and danced.
The other way was the General Motors way. They took forever, and sometimes simply stopped trying when the bureaucracy’s deadline came.… Read the rest “You know it when they dance”