{"id":1056,"date":"2022-07-05T21:40:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T21:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/work.creativamotions.com\/flavorlab\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2025-04-02T23:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T23:06:08","slug":"striking-the-right-tone-with-your-mix-turning-the-tables-emmy-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/work.creativamotions.com\/flavorlab\/striking-the-right-tone-with-your-mix-turning-the-tables-emmy-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Striking The Right Tone With Your Mix \u2013 Turning The Tables Emmy Win"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TURNING THE TABLES WITH ROBIN ROBERTS<\/em>\u00a0ON DISNEY+ WINS EMMY FOR BEST INFORMATIONAL TALK SHOW<\/h5>\n

Nearly a year after its release,\u00a0Turning The Tables<\/a><\/em>\u00a0brought home the Emmy for Best Informational Talk Show. Led by\u00a0Robin Roberts<\/a>, the show gathers together a wide array of iconic women in a series of open, honest discussions. Produced by Roberts\u2019 own\u00a0Rock\u2019n Robin Productions<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0SpringHill Company<\/a>, showrunner,\u00a0Kadine Anckle<\/a>, conducted the creative vision from start to finish.\u00a0Last year, we sat down with Kadine and the music team<\/a>\u00a0to talk about the show\u2019s original theme \u2013 a warm, acoustic bed led by vocalist,\u00a0Mai-Elka Prado<\/a>. Beneath and between the music,\u00a0Flavorlab Sound<\/a>\u00a0provided audio post for the talk-centric series, creating the warm, vulnerable atmosphere throughout.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese iconic women are connecting in a really stripped down, raw way. We hear them have conversations we don\u2019t normally hear women openly talk about. Partially because of the standards we put on ourselves, as women, and partially because of the standards of society. Being at the helm of all that, I took it really seriously,\u201d explains Kadine. \u201cAnd it\u2019s on a platform like\u00a0Disney+<\/a>\u00a0where children are watching. They\u2019re impressionable. I remember being a kid and listening to my aunts talk about life and trying to understand how they existed in the world. The way the show was shot, those wide angles, is supposed to feel a bit like a child sneaking into the room. Authenticity can often get lost, especially in an age when we\u2019re communicating through little boxes. I wanted these multi-generational conversations and messages of feminine empowerment and inclusion to come through.\u201d<\/center><\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted the viewer to feel like they snuck into the room and got a chance to be privy to this vulnerable, open conversation.\u201d<\/h4>\n

Kadine Anckle, Executive Producer<\/em><\/h4>\n

Part of that \u201cin the moment\u201d is feeling is the location. Across four episodes, Robin and her guests get personal on the back patio and open-door sun room of a house in LA. A plane flying over head, a bracelet clinking mid-sentence, a bird flapping in the trees. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t just dead room tone like a typical indoor talk show. We wanted to achieve that classic talk show feel, while bring this new, heartfelt, outdoorsy feeling to it. These locations required more thought,\u201d explains re-recording mixer, Eric Stern. Aiming for clarity first, the team used the Izotope RX Advanced suite plugins, among others, to solve typical noise issues. They mostly kept a light touch, however, to preserve the natural environment.<\/center>
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As with any talk show, the star is dialogue. For moments when people talked over one another, the engineers controlled for bleed. They also prioritized a microphone, like we might naturally listen for the main speaker over another person. To give each guest warmth and brilliance in their voice, to match, but stand out in the cozy atmosphere, engineers employed a cocktail of multi-band compression, a low-end noise reducer, and a transient master plugin.<\/center>
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\u201cThe challenge with the dialogue was what we should use,\u201d says assistant editor, Brett Aresco. \u201cOr, there were so many good moments that, I should say what we should cut. Between our two amazing editors and Kadine, there were strong feelings on what to keep. A few moments really made themselves obvious. Debbie Allen telling herself to put down the ice cream spoon during a conversation about discipline comes to mind.\u201d<\/center>
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