charles maynes special : Designing Sound

Charles Maynes Special: Reader Questions

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

So, this is the end of the amazing special of Charles Maynes. We hope you enjoyed it as we did. Here are the answers to the reader questions:…

Charles Maynes Special: Gun Recording Thoughts for 2010

Monday, June 28, 2010

I hope you folks found some of my experiences entertaining, and more so helpful in your problem solving, so in the spirit of such fellowship I wanted to…

Charles Maynes Special: Weapons SFX Recording and Design

Friday, June 25, 2010

Here’s another interesting article published some years ago by Charles Maynes, this time on Gamasutra, talking about his approach on weapon sound effects recording and design. Some things…

Charles Maynes Special: Sound for Sci-Fi/Superhero Films [Part 3] – “Twister” and “Starship Troopers”

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

These two films were a toss in the deep end of the pool for my sound editing career. Stephen Hunter Flick, who supervised both films through his sound…

Charles Maynes Special: Worldizing

Monday, June 21, 2010

Some years ago, MPEG published a very interesting article of Charles Maynes talking about his approach on the use of the worldizing technique: For some of us in…

Charles Maynes Special: Sound for Sci-Fi/Superhero Films [Part 2] – “S. Darko” and “Mystery Men”

Friday, June 18, 2010

The tales of inept wannabe super heroes and a mysterious girl named Samantha Darko. Wow what a different set of films- but they landed in the brief for this…

Charles Maynes Special: Sound for Sci-Fi/Superhero Films [Part 1] – "Spider-Man" and "Fantastic Four"

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

The films Spider-Man and Fantastic Four were tour-de-forces of creativity, both visually and sonically. The superhero franchise is really one of the venues for sound design that can…

Charles Maynes Special: Sound for War Films [Pt. 2] – “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters from Iwo Jima”

Thursday, June 10, 2010

In the films “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters from Iwo Jima” the challanges were different but not by a huge margin- Alan Murray, longtime Supervising Sound Editor…

Charles Maynes Special: Sound for War Films [Pt. 1] – "The Alamo" and "The Great Raid"

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

In doing sound for the war film several different things have to be considered in building a sort of “creative architecture” for your sound design. Usually these will…