Blastwave FX announced a new sound design competition. Do you think you have what it takes to scare the hell out of someone in 30 seconds or less using only sound? Here’s your chance to prove it, and win SONOPEDIA 2.0! But beware, the judges aren’t easily scared… Alan Howarth (Sound Designer / Composer on films such as Halloween, Poltergeist and Gremlins), Matt Busch (Star Wars … [Read more...]
The Sound of Real Steel
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/30175507[/vimeo] Who says robot boxing won’t happen in 2020?! “Real Steel” plays out this fantasy as robots have replaced humans in boxing in this Shawn Levy film (“Night at the Museum” franchise and “Date Night”). Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) loses a chance to become a boxing champion when robots take over, and he becomes a small-time promoter. When … [Read more...]
Randy Thom at View Conference 2011, Italy
Randy Thom will be speaking at View Conference 2011 in October at TorinoIncontra, Turin, Italy. Sound Design and Story Telling, a Master Class with Randy Thom Randy Thom, Director of Sound Design at Skywalker Sound, will walk you through the process of sound design in storytelling. Thom is a firm believer that the sooner the sound designer is involved in the pre-production, … [Read more...]
Bottle Rocket FX Releases Impact Collection
Bottle Rocket FX has released Impact Collection. The Impact Collection is a library of 304 impacts, whooshes, swells, static, rises and zaps all designed with Trailers and Promos in mind. These sounds were designed using anything I could hit, bang, rumble and smash. In the process I destroyed a couple tools and put a healthy dent in a spare refrigerator, not to mention the … [Read more...]
Your Questions to Ann Kroeber
You can make your own questions to this month's special guest Ann Kroeber. Just leave a comment or send your question(s) to miguel [at] designingsound [dot] org. The answers will be published at the end of the month. … [Read more...]
BOOM Releases Medieval Weapons
BOOM Library has released a new library called Medieval Weapons. It's done. Get ready to unleash an epic battle and blow away your audience. With our "MEDIEVAL WEAPONS" sound effects library, you get a fascinating collection of bone-crushing hammer impacts, deadly sword hits, wall-tearing catapult shots, bows and arrows, armor impacts and much more to design an incomparable … [Read more...]
A Strange Border – Essay on Music & Sound, by Paul Davies
[Written by Paul Davies] There is a strange and porous border in film sound and that is the one that exists between music and sound design, it is not a sealed and clearly defined boundary, but an open, shifting and nebulous one, easy to cross over back and forth, sometimes inadvertently and other times boldly and deliberately, by both the composer and the sound designer. One … [Read more...]