There have been two great articles on music editorial this past month: The Hollywood Reporter ran a piece on TV and Film Music Editors which can be found HERE and The Editor's Guild is previewing a piece from their current magazine HERE. I am going to do a Q and A in October with the Coen Bros. music editor Todd Kasow for "No Country for Old Men." The Cohens always populate … [Read more...]
The Bourne Ultimatum
Jason Bourne breaks back into theaters August 3rd. Helping to sell all the close-quarter sounds are sound supervisors Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg. The film was mixed at Todd-AO WEST in Gary Summers, David Parker, Bob Beemer, and Scott Milan's dub stage. production mixer Kirk Francis shot the location dialog while composer John Powell scored the film at Abbey Road. … [Read more...]
More “Transformers”
One person I wish I could have, and should have interviewed is FX mixer Greg Russell. Luckily, this month's issue of Mix magazine has a great interview with him and fellow mixer Kevin O'Connell. Greg and Kevin have been partners of the fader since the late 80's and a fixture in Sony's Cary Grant theater for some time now. Check out the interview HERE. … [Read more...]
“Transformers” (Pt.1) – Exclusive Interview with Supervising Sound Editor “Ethan Van Der Ryn”
"Transformers" explodes into theaters this July 3rd. Collaborating to make those sounds more then meets the ear, are Sound Supervisor's Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins. This is the first movie the pair supervised since winning their second sound-editing Oscar for their work on "King Kong". Sound mixing took place over at Sony with Greg Russell and Kevin O'Connell manning … [Read more...]