Monday, October 21, 2013

Battlefield 4 "Anthem" TV :60

In addition to the 20+ testimonial videos I have mixed for agency DraftFCB and their client EA, this masterpiece of order and chaos was mixed for television broadcast. This single minute of video battle glory took us almost two weeks of work, re-recording dialog, mixing and editing multiple versions of music, building sound design, and mastering the entire brew into a coherent spot. The challenges were obviously to keep the voice clear over all the chaos, and keep an artistic dynamic while adhering to broadcast limitations. The other issue with sound designing a video-game spot is that all the sound design elements must originate from the game (for legal reasons) so NO SFX library. Over a million views in less than a week! The game is highly anticipated by its fans, and the comments on YouTube are very enthusiastic...