"Sound Update Version" Production Locale Report
(PART 3)
 It's a Sunday. The cafeteria, which is usually full of people at noontime, is a ghost town today. |
 The work is in the final stretch. Yamaga's hand and body movements just naturally seem to increase in frequency. |
 The Avaco Studios staff look on at the progress of the work. They perform like troupers, even though it's a Sunday. |
 Today we have re-recording work at the Tokyo TV Center. The Dolby Digital production work will be finished here. |
 The brilliantly shining THX Emblem. The Tachikawa CinemaCity 2, which will be showing this revised version of "The Royal Space Force", is one of the handful of THX-certified theaters in Japan. |
 The typical placement for the center speaker in a movie theater is behind the screen. So the screen has lots of holes in it to let the sound pass through. Here you can see what those holes look like. |
 Audio Director Tashiro watching over production, together with Hayashi, President of Avaco Studios. This is when all their work pays off. |
 Recording Engineer Nagura also looks pleased. Standing behind him, by the way, is Mori Mikio, of Dolby Japan. |
 Here's Yamaga checking over the Dolby Digital mastering results. What could the look on his face mean? |
 At last, the mastering comes down to the wire. Here's the director, watching the last scene. |
 No matter how busy things get onsite, even the Director gets hungry. See him feed his face. |
 At last, the studio work is done. And the clock on the wall says 2:00AM...Congratulations to all the staff on a job well done. |