It’s still June and the gifted Coll Anderson is still the sound designer of the month here at Designing Sound. Among many other things, Coll has done a long list of impressive documentaries and doing an interview focused on this part of his work was an obvious choice. Among many award winning documentaries, Coll has worked on Restrepo (2010), Catfish (2010) and the Academy … [Read more...]
Coll Anderson Special: Creating Sounds with RiverRun
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfvq8-69frc[/youtube] Coll has sent us a video sharing one of the ways he likes to create abstract, yet related, sounds for the projects he works on. I'll let the video speak for itslef. Enjoy! Update: Coll has sent us some samples of the types of sounds he created. They're embedded after the jump. … [Read more...]
Coll Anderson Special: Film Sound Discussion of “Catfish”
The recording for the discussion with Coll about Catfish is now available. I just want to give you a heads up that we had some technical issues. There were a few functionality ideas that, while they worked in our initial tests, didn't pan out for the discussion. We stumble our way through, and get things kind of sorted out about 6-7 minutes in. When you load in to the … [Read more...]
Coll Anderson Special: Exclusive Interview
To get things rolling on this month's featured sound designer, here's a little introductory interview with Coll Anderson. Designing Sound: How did you first get interested in sound? Coll Anderson: My Mother was a DJ at a country radio station in Des Moines Iowa. She did that and was a VO artist... I started hanging out at the station when she was doing her show, and then … [Read more...]
June’s Featured Sound Designer: Coll Anderson
I'm pleased to announce a new special guest on Designing Sound: Coll Anderson. About Coll Anderson has been working with sound for 24 years. His work includes recording, editing, designing and mixing, and spans indie art house classics, award-winning documentaries, and many studio films. From Documentaries including Errol Morrisʼ Oscar winning “The Fog of War”, Sundance Grand … [Read more...]