I'm going to start publishing weekly reports about "Secret for Great Film Sound", a new webinar series hosted by David Sonnenschein and Ric Viers. Last week I assisted to the first webinar. It was fantastic! Ric and David talked a lot about pre-production process, including: How to work with clients (Producers, directors, etc) Budget and payments Analyzing the … [Read more...]
The State of Post-Production Film Sound, a Report by John Kassab
Sound Designer John Kassab, who shared the Harry Potter interview with us some days ago, has sent me very interesting report he just finished about the state of post-production film sound in both conceptual and technical ways. The text includes some introductory theories, detailed analysis of different topics, and also interviews with sound professionals from different sides of … [Read more...]
Sonnenschein's Webinar Report: Week V – Audio Building Blocks
The Sound Design for Pros Webinar Series from David Sonnenschein is coming to the end. The last week was really great. We talked about sound events and sound objects. David give us several advices and talked about several techniques and methods for building new sound objects and events, by layering and mixing elements, making sound phrases and sentences, etc. He showcased … [Read more...]
Sonnenschein's Webinar Report: Week IV – Sonic Time-Space Continuum
It's time for another report of the Sound Design for Pros webinar series from David Sonnenschein. The last webinar was very good. David started reviewing several of the assignments of the last webinar. Then he talked about the relations between sound and the physical/social environment in a cinematic context and also talked about several techniques and methods to analyze and … [Read more...]
Sonnenschein's Webinar Report: Week III – Rules Of the Brain Road
Today is the fourth webinar from the Sound Design for Pros webinar series of David Sonnenschein. I'm going to give you a little reprot about last week's work. The las webinar was really great. David started reviewing several of the homework sent for that class. Then he talked about brain, and how humans perceive sound and process it. He give us a lot of different techniques … [Read more...]
Sonnenschein's Webinar Report: Week II – Plugin Power
As I promised the last week, I'll be doing a weekly report of the Sound Design Webinar Series by David Sonnenschein, just to give you an idea of what is David doing on each webinar and solve any kind of doubts you have about that. In the second webinar David started reviewing some of the assignments given in the last session, and also giving more tips and great theories. For … [Read more...]
Sonnenschein's Webinar Report: Week I – The Intelligent Ear
I've see that several readers are interestd to know more about the Sound Design Webinar Series of David Sonnenschein. Well, I'm attending to the series by these days, so I find appropriate to do a series of posts here talking about my experience on the webinars, so all of you can know more about them and enroll into future webinar series if you want. Today is the second … [Read more...]