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Creating Film Sound: An Interview with Richard Beggs

February 25, 2011 by Miguel Isaza

Matteo Milani of U.S.O Project has published the first part of a fantastic interview with sound designer Richard Beggs. They talk about several things, including previous projects, specific sounds/scenes, and also technical/philosophical stuff.

Richard Beggs, sound designer and re-recording mixer, has worked in his career with directors like Francis Coppola, Ivan Reitman, Mel Brooks, Barry Levinson, Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola (including her latest “Somewhere” – Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice Film Festival 2010), and Alfonso Cuarón, among others.

He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for Apocalypse Now (1979) and has received many Golden Reel Award nominations as sound designer and mixer for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), Children of Men (2006).

Beggs teaches film sound at the California College of the Arts, he is an associate fellow of Berkeley College at Yale University, and sits on the board of directors of the San Francisco Arts Education Project.

Trained as a painter, Beggs received a B.F.A from the San Francisco Art Institute and an M.F.A. from the California College of the Arts. He exhibited at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and at Oakland Museum of California. A native San Franciscan (1942), Beggs has his sound studio at the San Francisco Film Centre in the Presidio of San Francisco.

Continue reading…

The second part hasn’t been published yet, but the first one is long and very interesting. Totally recommended.

Filed Under: interviews Tagged With: apocalypse now, children of men, film sound, films, interview, matteo milani, methods, richard beggs, sound design, techniques, tools, uso project

Comments

  1. Kate rise disston says

    May 26, 2017 at 12:34 am

    Hey, Richard.. would love to connect with you again . Art institute 1963/65.
    Just saw your name again in a Coppola movie.
    Live in Berkeley. Please respond.
    Kate rose disston

    • Richard Beggs says

      July 26, 2018 at 10:33 pm

      Kate, Well that’s pretty strange, I just stumbled on this. Sure, lets talk.

  2. Kate rose disston says

    May 26, 2017 at 12:37 am

    Richard… please connect. Kate

  3. alan klingen says

    December 14, 2017 at 6:00 pm

    richard it your car mechanic alan from the stable. give me a call so i can bring up to date with what is going on in my life, Alan. 924-464-7299 bye for now

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