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Film Sound Discussion Group: Cast Away (2000)

November 19, 2011 by Shaun Farley

For the next Film Sound Discussion Group, we’ll be taking a look at the film Cast Away (2000)…directed by Robert Zemeckis, with sound design by Randy Thom. This session is going to be different from the previous two, we aren’t going to have any special or central presenters. This is going to be a moderated free form discussion to take a look at the use of sound and effects in Cast Away. In particular, I think it would be interesting to focus on the scene where Tom Hanks wakes up on the beach after the plane crash (pictured above). We won’t restrict it to just that scene, but it is an excellent starting place. There is a lot that we can talk about in that scene alone.

So grab the movie, watch it and pop in to the discussion with your opinions and  webcam/mic. [note: There’s also some interesting commentary from Randy Thom available on the disc.] The group will meet on Saturday, December 17th, at 11AM (U.S. Eastern Standard Time). You can sign up for the discussion here.

Hope to see you there.

A recording of the webinar is now available here.

Filed Under: webinar Tagged With: cast away, community, designing sound discussion group, Film Sound Discussion, randy thom, sound design, webinar

Comments

  1. Stephen says

    November 19, 2011 at 12:31 pm

    This sounds like its going to be very interesting, I hope I can make it. I’ll be on vacation.

  2. Marco says

    November 19, 2011 at 2:02 pm

    Darn!!! I won’t make it, I’ll be on vacations too.

    • Shaun Farley says

      November 21, 2011 at 9:12 am

      Like previous ones, there will be a recording available afterwards.

  3. Randy Thom says

    November 21, 2011 at 12:43 pm

    I’m planning on joining in, and I’ll be happy to talk about things I wish I had done differently on Cast Away. Looking forward very much to it.

    Randy

  4. Aditya Yadav says

    December 1, 2011 at 2:27 pm

    it would be really great to hear it from the man himself. thank you Randy Sir.

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