The London Film School is offering another one day workshop focusing on the role of sound in story-telling. The workshop will take place on Saturday, November 24th. They're also offering a 20% discount to Designing Sound readers. What is it that makes the dream sequences in Hitchcock’s SPELLBOUND, Bergman’s WILD STRAWBERRIES and Coppola’s THE CONVERSATION so disturbing? What … [Read more...]
The Zombie Apocalypse: Behind The Screams
Follow Ric Viers and his team at the Detroit Chop Shop as they explain what it takes to record and design epic sounds for the impending invasion of the undead. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVxdPlvKuhU&feature=relmfu[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmolMsChZLo&feature=relmfu[/youtube] More episodes are on the way so keep an eye out for … [Read more...]
CINESONIKA 3: Call for Submissions
The Third International Film and Video Festival of Sound Design is open to submissions: CINESONIKA 3: The Third International Film and Video Festival of Sound Design - Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland, February 2013. Call for submissions Deadline: Nov. 15th 2012 €15 entry fee The third annual Cinesonika festival will showcase international works of film and video with … [Read more...]
TeeVegas: A Sound Designer’s Toolbox for Sony Vegas
Johan Althoff, former Lead Sound Designer at Starbreeze Studios, has released a suite of scripts for Sony Vegas, specifically tailored for use in music production and sound design. TeeVegas includes a flexible batch renderer, utilities for creating and arranging regions and markers, as well as helpers for speeding up the workflow of sound designers. From Johan … [Read more...]
Sound Forge Pro Mac Now Avaliable
Sony put out this press release this morning: SOUND FORGE™ PRO MAC NOW AVAILABLEMiddleton, Wis. - Oct 3, 2012 - Sony Creative Software, a leading global provider of professional editing and authoring solutions, today released Sound Forge Pro Mac 1.0software, the newest addition to its line of award-winning video and audio production software products. This audio … [Read more...]
BOOM SFX Library – SCI-FI
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/49392240[/vimeo] The good people at BOOM Library are running a pre-release sale of their new SCI-FI library now until official release on October 22. Blurb: Space: The final frontier. This is where our brand new SCI-Fi SFX library will take your sound design projects. SCI-FI DESIGNED will let you create high quality futuristic sound design in light … [Read more...]
Free Panel at USC this Weekend
Just noticed today that there's a free panel at USC this Saturday, starting at 2PM. Anna Behlmer, Lora Hirschberg and Gwen Whittle will be part of the presenting panel for the, "Cinematic Arts Panel: Take My Job Please! Women in Post Production Sound" A panel of three of the film industry's top post sound professionals want to know, "Where are the women to take their places?" … [Read more...]