This is a guest post by Ben Allan, producer at Main Course Films in Sydney, Australia. Ben recently worked both as a producer and a mixer for a film which has been produced solely for the new cinema at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. This venue is equipped with a screen over 80 ft wide that curves around the audience accompanied with a unique surround sound system to match the screen … [Read more...]
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Sunday Sound Thought #82 — To Continue
As has come before; many of these posts will be philosophical in nature. Some will be in contradiction to previous postings. These are not intended as truths or assertions, they’re merely thoughts…ideas. Think of this as stream of consciousness over a wide span…Please bare with us as we traverse the abstract canals of audio musings. A few heavy reads recently had left me … [Read more...]
Sony ICD-SX2000 review
Audible tears were heard slowly rolling down sound designer’s cheeks when Sony discontinued both their M10 and D50 field recording models recently. They were affordable recorders with built-in mics that also offered plug-in power for attaching microphones with an 1/8” connection or a preamp for XLR mics. The recorders were well regarded for their small footprint, … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought #64 – The Extra-Dynamics of INSIDE
The thing about wisdom is that you can't really ever receive it. You can read and watch everything there is to find about sound and come away with little more than good conversation. Lessons have to be learned personally, and experience only ever happens to you when you're ready. So it is that I feel myself finally ready to think seriously about some of the things I've seen … [Read more...]
The Calm and the Chaos: Creating the Sound for ‘Dishonored 2’
In 2012, the stealth-action video game Dishonored was released. Developed by Arkane Studios and released by Bethesda, it was what any fan of sly first-person games could hope for. In the industrial, free-roaming city of Dunwall, players could choose to be a lethal action hero, a strategic assassin, or a nonviolent vigilante, avoiding brutal deaths through quick reaction and … [Read more...]
Turn It Upside Down
When we're in the heat of creation, in the final hours before a deadline, or when we're trying to prove ourselves, failure can be a punch in the gut. As creatives, we try to minimize failure, or we at least attempt to mitigate its emotional and practical effects. But what about all those times something unexpected happened, and it gave us the insight and inspiration necessary … [Read more...]
Sound Design for Theater: Another Medium for Our Craft
Guest post by James Richter In 2007, I was invited to join Mutineer Theatre Company in Los Angeles, a new enterprise one of my colleagues was founding. Though I hadn’t participated in theater since high school, I jumped at the chance. I wasn’t getting many opportunities to use my composition training in film, and I was growing bored with mixing mono news pieces for public … [Read more...]