This interview was originally conducted for inclusion in our “Sound Art” theme. Jeff Jacoby is a Sound Designer and Sound Artist with over 40 years of experience. With an Emmy to his name plus two other Emmy nominations, 2 Cine´ Golden Eagles, 2 Crystal Radios, 2 Benjamin Franklins, and 5 BEA Best of Competition awards, Jeff Jacoby is a name that you should know. Coming from … [Read more...]
Don’t Fall Asleep!
My last post here was in July. In keeping with the theme, you could say I was hibernating, but that’s not really true. Life, work, projects, recording: all these things fought for my time and unfortunately what suffered was the amount I had left for a volunteer position I loved as a contributing editor here at designingsound.org. Unlike our wild mammalian sisters and … [Read more...]
Interview: Nikola Simikic and John Creed on Accessibility
This interview was originally conducted for inclusion in our “accessibility” theme. The topic for the month is accessibility. I turned to Nikola Simikic and John Creed in Los Angeles for some perspective on the topic. Nikola is a sound designer and re-recording mixer at Gypsy Sound, and John is a dialogue editor for Gypsy Sound and Warner Brothers. DS: Hi Guys and thanks … [Read more...]
Interview: Eric Freeman on Fluidity in Re-recording Mixing
This interview was originally conducted for inclusion in our “Fluidity” theme. Some minor delays and life circumstances kept it in the works, but on the back burner for awhile. After much anticipation, here it is... Eric Freeman is a Re-recording Mixer for Disney TV Animation. To date, he has received seven Daytime Emmy Awards and seven MPSE Golden Reel Awards. His credits … [Read more...]
Final Monthly Topic: Hibernation
This is not an easy monthly topic introduction to write, but as it will be the last one anyone will write I will savor it as much as I can. At the end of the month of December 2018: DesigningSound.org will be no longer updating with new content. The site will stay up; the links *should* still work, and all past content will still be accessible. Shaun Farley and … [Read more...]
Live Foley: Interview with Goro Koyama
Goro Koyama is a Toronto based foley artist and native of Japan. He won an MPSE for his work on Blade Runner 2049 and you can hear more of him in the upcoming film, Creed II. Goro recently travelled to New York City to perform foley live at the Japan Society for 450 people. With the theme of this month being inversion, I asked Goro if he could speak to us about the inverse … [Read more...]
Creating the sound for the animated film, Tightly Wound
Working in post sound, there tends to be a lot of commonalities between projects. In general, we don’t start work until the picture has been shot and edited. When the files come in, we divide up the editing, record foley, record adr, and schedule the final mix. The post sound process for an animated film is a little different. Most notably, work begins before a single frame … [Read more...]