[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/25701601[/vimeo] Michael Semanick is a two-time Academy Award winner and has been nominated six other times for Achievement in Sound Mixing. He was nominated for all three Lord of The Rings films and won for Return of the King in 2004. He received his second Academy Award for Peter Jackson’s King Kong. Semanick has been nominated twice for his work with … [Read more...]
Joseph Fraioli on the Sound Design of Google Chrome Speed Tests
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgQDjiotG0[/youtube] Peter Kirn has published an interview with Joseph Fraioli, talking about his work for the awesome Google Chrome speed tests campaign. What does speed sound like? Sound designer and electronic musician Joseph Fraioli, aka jafbox, was charged with giving a campaign just that feeling. The spot, directed by Aaron Duffy … [Read more...]
Coll Anderson Special: Documentary Sound
It’s still June and the gifted Coll Anderson is still the sound designer of the month here at Designing Sound. Among many other things, Coll has done a long list of impressive documentaries and doing an interview focused on this part of his work was an obvious choice. Among many award winning documentaries, Coll has worked on Restrepo (2010), Catfish (2010) and the Academy … [Read more...]
New SFX Libraries: Toys, Trains, Water, Springs, Mangled Metal, Holograms
New libraries have been released. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6htu053iRlw[/youtube] Daniel Gooding launches Affordable Audio 4 Everyone, with the introduction of The Magic ToyBox, a SFX library released as "pay as you can" model. Any purchase over $5 will go to charity. From the great depths of the basement, came forth the sounds of toys, and games of old. Over … [Read more...]
Coll Anderson Special: Creating Sounds with RiverRun
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfvq8-69frc[/youtube] Coll has sent us a video sharing one of the ways he likes to create abstract, yet related, sounds for the projects he works on. I'll let the video speak for itslef. Enjoy! Update: Coll has sent us some samples of the types of sounds he created. They're embedded after the jump. … [Read more...]
The Sound of “Super 8”
New article at M.P.E.G featuring the sound crew of "Super 8", including sound designer/co-supervising sound editor Ben Burtt, co-supervising sound editor Matthew Wood and Re-recording Mixers Anna Behlmer and Andy Nelson. For the pivotal train crash during Reel 2, Burtt faced a major challenge – how to sustain the tension without overwhelming the soundtrack. “My thought process … [Read more...]
The Sound of “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/25669979[/vimeo] Director Michael Bay and Producer Steven Speilberg return this summer for the third film in the Transformers franchise, Tranformers: Dark of the Moon. The amazing visual effects in this film are complimented by the talented efforts of the sound team including Re-recording Mixers Greg Russell and Jeff Haboush, and Supervising Sound … [Read more...]