Tim Prebble from music of sound has published an interesting article talking about the role of breaths in Film Sound. Having suffered a nasty respiratory virus for the last while I’ve joked to a few people that my new hobby is ‘trying to breath normally” and its not far from the truth. Now I dislike ADR as much as most people, but when I meet someone who says they want … [Read more...]
Ben Burtt Special: WALL-E – The Definitive Interview
"WALL•E" Sound for Film Profile with Ben Burtt from Michael Coleman on Vimeo. When nobody thought that Ben Burtt could return with his robots and laserguns, He strikes back (and even stronger) with WALL-E, an amazing animation film with the perfect dose of sound design that groups all the incredible knowledge, experience and talent of Ben Burtt in one place. Is well as I did … [Read more...]
Ben Burtt Special: Star Wars – The Sounds [Part 2]
The second part of the special about the sounds of Star Wars, created by Ben Burtt. Let's take a look of the sounds of the characters in the film: Darth Vader, R2-D2, Chewbacca and the amazing Ewokese language. Chewbacca "You have bits and fragments of animal sounds which you have collected and put into lists: here is an affectionate sound and, here is a angry sound and, just … [Read more...]
Ben Burtt Special: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Video from Michael Coleman on Vimeo. One of the most recent works of Ben Burtt: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a 2008 adventure film, fourth in the Indiana Jones franchise, created by George Lucas and directed by Steven Spielberg. “It started for me back in September [2007], when I went to L.A. and read the script in a secret room with a guard at the … [Read more...]
Ben Burtt Special: Star Wars – The Sounds [Part 1]
Ben Burtt doesn't have a large list of films, but when he made the sound design of Star Wars, he created a new wave of sound making, introducing new techniques and certainly a new world of sounds. I'll divide the information about Star Wars Sound into five parts: The Sounds [Part 1] The Sounds [Part 2] Phantom Menace Attack of the Clones Let`s begin with the first part: … [Read more...]
Predubs in the world of effects re-recording
Always mixing, predubs in the world of effects-heavy film re-recording. Very interesnting article recently posted by Mix Online: Given the complexity of high-action movies, and the fact that technology-savvy directors retain their creative options right up to the final print-mastering stage, re-recording mixers face some difficult choices. “As soon as I had read the script for … [Read more...]
Dane A. Davis Special: The Matrix [Part 2]
The second part of this special about the sound design of Matrix, awesome work by our August's featured Dane A. Davis. This time let's check this interesting article from Mix Magazine featuring Davis and Danetracks: The edgy, effects-laden feature-directed by the Wachowski brothers (whose directorial debut was the stylish Bound, also with sound design by Davis)-is a … [Read more...]