Interviewing Sound Designer and Re-recording Mixer Chris Boyes, Mix Magazine continues its video onslaught of exclusively Skywalker Sound related projects below... Also an Italian site ComicUS has an interview with the film's composer Ramin Djawadi, HERE (scroll past the Italian version of the interview for the English translation.) … [Read more...]
Horton Hears A Who
"Horton Hears a Who" stampeded into theaters March 14th. Dennis Leonard supervised the Dr. Seuss adaptation. Randy Thom served as sound designer and re-recording mixer. Mixing took place at Thom's usual stomping ground, Skywalker Sound. Along with Gary Rizzo, the two mixers helped populate whoville with sound for Horton to hear. Original dialog recording for "Horton" was … [Read more...]
Tech Suppport: Best Sound Editing Preview
Hope everyone who celebrates it had a great Thanksgiving Day! Sorry for being late to the party on this one, Gerard Kennedy's Tech Support provides a little overview of potential nods in the looming best sound editing Oscar race. … [Read more...]
Tech Support: Ethan Van Der Ryn and Randy Thom
Tech Support column delivers the goods, an interview with Sound Supervisor/Designer, Ethan Van der Ryn(who will be speaking next week, HERE) and Sound Supervisor/Designer/Mixer, Randy Thom. Both craftsmen discuss the "technical" moniker that affiliates itself with filmsound work. Randy was also interviewed recently by the "Scene Unseen" podcast which if you have itunes can be … [Read more...]
The Audience isn’t Listening
Yesterday, I went to see Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix at a local theater chain and to my delight the soundtrack defaulted down to the stereo mix from the third reel on. I was obviously a little annoyed so I decided to talk to the manager and let them know that the film in their biggest theater was playing back in not so optimum conditions. They nodded and awarded … [Read more...]
A Sound Arbitration
Walking out of supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer Larry Blake's Virtual Post-Production Sound Paradigm presentation on Monday night I couldn't help feel a little torn. Don't get me wrong I love gatherings like those, especially when they are helmed by someone who seems to be as controversial as Blake is in his field. Expectantly strong feelings were thrown over both … [Read more...]