Our web panel will be starting soon (4PM U.S. Eastern Time). You can watch it via the embedded video below, or head over to our Google+ page to join the conversation when we open it up to questions. … [Read more...]
Remote Collaboration and Maintaining a Consistent “Voice” – Designing Sound Discussion Group
We'll be hosting our next Designing Sound Discussion Group on March 29th, at 2PM 4PM (U.S. Eastern). We'll have supervising sound editor Michael Maroussas and the sound team of the film Orthodox [full disclosure, that includes me], which is currently in post-production, on to discuss the remote collaboration workflow for the film. Team members have worked remotely from their … [Read more...]
Sound Collectors Club: July’s Theme – Street Voices
The human voice can evoke so much meaning and emotion. Therefore, it is an invaluable vehicle for expressing the mood of a location. As a result, this month’s theme is one of my favourite types of sound effect for creating interesting and evocative soundscapes. This theme lies somewhere between ‘exterior crowd’ fx and crowd ADR. It is not general chat or crowd sounds. It … [Read more...]
Sound Collectors Club – New Membership System and April’s Theme Announced
Michael Maroussas has announced new changes in the Sound Collectors Club, along with this month's theme: echo space. We can now keep our collections of sounds online permanently so that they can continue to grow indefinitely, so I hope you’ll agree with me that it was well worth the wait. Please have a thorough read through of the amended How to Upload your Sounds to the … [Read more...]
The Sound Collectors' Club, More Crowdsourcing Power in the SFX World
Michael Maroussas, creator of the of the great sonicskepsi blog, has launched a new and very interesting project, called "The Sound Collectors' Club", inspired by great projects like HISS and a ROAR and Soundsnap. Basically, it's a place where you can go, upload sound effects (according to a specific topic) to a SoundCloud group. Then you will have access to all the sounds … [Read more...]