As you may already know, Paul N.J. Ottosson has won the academy award for Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing with Ray Beckett. Need to know why "The Hurt Locker" won the two prizes? Here are some links to the posts previously published, all with info about the sound of this amazing film: “The Hurt Locker” and “Avatar”, Two Different Paths on Sound Editing Thoughts of … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2010
Paul Ottosson Talks About Working on "The Hurt Locker"
More "The Hurt Locker", this time a really cool video from "Making Of" with Paul Ottosson talking about the sound editing and mixing of this great film. … [Read more...]
Your Questions to Erik Aadahl
Now, you have the opportunity to do your own questions Erik Aadahl. Please read the exclusive interview first. Maybe you can find your answer there. … [Read more...]
Erik Aadahl Special: Exclusive Interview
Let's get started with the Erik Aadahl Special. Here is a Designing Sound's exclusive interview with Erik talking about some aspects of his career, personal thoughts, his main tools, and more. Designing Sound: To start please give us an introduction about your career and how you get involved with sound design Erik Aadahl: As a kid, I played piano and started composing music … [Read more...]
Passing it Along: David Stone Interview
I'm a frequent visitor of CHUD.COM, so I was excited to see an interview posted today with sound editor and chair of the Sound Department at the Savannah College or Art & Design, David Stone. In addition to being one of the dudes responsible for the sound of Predator and so some of my favorite film sounds growing up,(he discussed some of his techniques for the film HERE) … [Read more...]
Recording Cars for "Forza Motorsport 3"
Check this interesting article at Jalopnik featuring the car recording sessions for "Forza Motorsport 3". In a way, it's best to think of driving sims as being like the movies, where huge amounts of lighting and makeup are required in order to make people look exactly like they do in real life. Along the same lines, you cannot simply stuff an expensive microphone up the … [Read more...]
Web Based Tool for Creative Sound Design Ideas, Inspired By Brian Eno's "Oblique Strategies"
Do you know about "Oblique Strategies"? Originally developed by Brian Eno, consists in a deck of cards containing ideas and phrases to help you on "breaking" the lack of creativity on any project you're working on. George Spanos, from GameSoundDesign has created the "Sound Design Strategies" based on the same concept, but here all the phrases are oriented to sound design. Just … [Read more...]