Jessica Conway / Roundup
Pierce College’s Great Hall was filled with students interested in multimedia who wanted to listen to the Music Editor of “The Simpsons”, Chris Ledesma speak about the process of airing a television series Wednesday night.
“Airing a show is an ever going process,” said Ledesma, “If a director could make a perfect show they would never finish.”
He went over the entire process a television series goes through: Script. Audio. Sketches.
Then the anamatic process is viewed over and has FOX’s approval, the sketches are then animated with voice-over recordings.
“Television is a team sport, be sure you are in the team mind set,” he said.
Music is then added to the series, “1 week after we go over the musical metronomes we prepare for the dubbing, where the musical dialog and sound affect editor make everything come to balance”, he said.
He then discussed the importance of music in a series and the 4 ways music is used; to mirror a shows emotion, or to sometimes do the opposing, in some cases music can open a new door for the audience, or lastly to have the character hear the music for comedy.
Once the music is added the show is ready to be shipped to FOX and aired.
A show can take up to 2 years to complete so as one can imagine 2-3 episodes are worked on at once.
Ledesma hit the basics of the unique way “The Simpsons” is filmed in an enjoyable speech.
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