"It’s all about the emotional associations of sounds. It’s not about whether they’re really technically correct or not. It’s about whether they’re scary or relaxing or threatening or whatever helps tell the story." - Dane A. Davis … [Read more...]
"SOUNDSCAPE: The School of Sound Lectures 1998-2001" Book Reprinted and Available Now
The School of Sound has announced the release of a reprinted version of "SOUNDSCAPE: The School of Sound Lectures 1998-2001", one of the most amazing books to read if you're involved with sound design or sound in general. SOUNDSCAPE is a compendium of presentations given during the first four years of the School of Sound investigating the modern soundtrack and the ways sound … [Read more...]
September's Sound Design Challenge Announced
Shaun Farley from Dynamic Interference has announced the Sound Design Challenge for this month. For this month’s challenge, we’re going to be creating a sound design to fill in the space outside of the camera’s frame, but this is really more of a test of your storytelling skills. Details: Create and tell a story about the character in the video. Overall, the piece should … [Read more...]
Tim Prebble and His Three Nominations for Best Sound at NZ Film Awards
I consider Tim Prebble a true master of the craft. He is an amazing sound designer and one of the most prolific contributors to this community. This week is New Zealand Film Awards, and guess what! Tim worked as sound designer in the three films nominated for Best Sound in a feature film. Tim has made an incredible post on his blog, talking about his work on the three films, … [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...]
The Horse Sounds of "Secretariat"
Supervising sound editors Kevin O'Connell and Kami Asgar talked to Variety about the sounds for Disney's Secretariat. Disney's "Secretariat," set for Oct. 8 release, makes striking use of sound to bring the audience into the experience of horse racing. In the racing scenes -- which deftly balance music and sound effects -- the sound helps viewers who've never sat in a saddle … [Read more...]
An Interview with Rob Sephton
The guys at Sounddogs Blog has published an interview with sound designer Rob Sephton, talking about general things of his sound design career. S.B.: What would you say is the best part of being a sound designer? R.S.: Well that’s it, the best part of being a Sound Designer is the design of the sound of movies. That’s the fun stuff. As with everything else, there’s the … [Read more...]