When the cut is locked, editorial hands sound an AAF with handles and the work starts: the dialogue is cleaned, lines are re-recorded, footsteps and props are performed to picture, every door and car and explosion is built, the score arrives, and a re-recording mixer balances the three in a cinema-sized room. Most of these people are employed by facilities rather than freelance, and MFJF's courses are clear that the entry route is the post-production runner, and that of the three routes out of running this is the hardest, because modern theatres need fewer hands.
Supervising sound editor and sound designer
Dialogue editor
Sound effects editor
Foley artist
Re-recording mixer
Composer
Music supervisor
Sound post runner and assistantEntry-level job
