Is it possible to make instruments sound natural through audio editing like this?

[Greg Miller]

Originally Posted by Josh Bass

Not a Santa Claus movie.

Not a submarine movie.

I kinda like the idea of Santa Claus *IN* a submarine. Call it "Das Snow Boots."

A sequel to the movie where Mrs. Claus files for a divorce, the elves all go on strike, and then the little angel walks in and asks, "Santa, where should I put this tree?"

[Greg Miller]

Originally Posted by Ryan Elder

oh okay, it's not that I don't mean to scale back my ambitions it's just that if the average building has noise problems how am I supposed to scale back my ambitions more further back than the average building.

C'mon Ryan, think before you speak! You don't really want to solve the problem. You don't even want to understand the problem logically. You just want to argue with us.

The average public school building, or college classroom building, or probably office building, is mostly vacant and mostly quiet at night. Here where I live, in a college town, over winter break most houses that are rented by students are vacant, when the students go home to visit their families. Of course there will be exceptions (cleaning crew, etc.) and if you are any good at planning you will anticipate, ask, and avoid those particular situations.

Nowhere is totally silent (except outer space which is a vacuum) because sound is the oscillatory movement of molecules including air molecules. But through intelligent planning you find a building that's *pretty* quiet, hire a sound man who knows how to treat spaces and how to choose & place mics to *minimize* noise in the track (you cannot entirely eliminate it) and then hire a mixer who can further reduce it if necessary. Done. The end.

[Ryan Elder]

Sure I can do that. I will look for buildings that are not being used at night. For this particular script, if the scene is set at the day time, I guess the DP can still make it look like daytime though of course.

I don't have to make the submarine movie, it's just others told me it was the best script treatment and ideas I had, and that they wanted to help make it more than other scripts. But I don't have to do that one. I think it will be too challenging, so I put it on hold for now.