The London Film School is offering another one day workshop focusing on the role of sound in story-telling. The workshop will take place on Saturday, November 24th. They're also offering a 20% discount to Designing Sound readers. What is it that makes the dream sequences in Hitchcock’s SPELLBOUND, Bergman’s WILD STRAWBERRIES and Coppola’s THE CONVERSATION so disturbing? What … [Read more...]
Getting professional quality sound design with what you’ve got – a post-mortem for Robert Glickert’s DR0NE
By Mark Camperell - Founder / Creative Director at Empty Sea Audio Services THE MISSION DR0NE is a high-concept, sci-fi web series that is exclusive to YOMYOMFnetwork, a new professional YouTube channel. The series is executive produced by Justin Lin (Fast and Furious, Fast Five) and directed by Robert Glickert. DR0NE stars Lance Reddick (The Wire, Lost and Fringe) and … [Read more...]
CINESONIKA 3: Call for Submissions
The Third International Film and Video Festival of Sound Design is open to submissions: CINESONIKA 3: The Third International Film and Video Festival of Sound Design - Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland, February 2013. Call for submissions Deadline: Nov. 15th 2012 €15 entry fee The third annual Cinesonika festival will showcase international works of film and video with … [Read more...]
Sound Forge Pro Mac Now Avaliable
Sony put out this press release this morning: SOUND FORGE™ PRO MAC NOW AVAILABLEMiddleton, Wis. - Oct 3, 2012 - Sony Creative Software, a leading global provider of professional editing and authoring solutions, today released Sound Forge Pro Mac 1.0software, the newest addition to its line of award-winning video and audio production software products. This audio … [Read more...]
Thinking Before Design
With news of a new plugin or new software feature every other week, it is easy to get lost in a myriad of technological ‘solutions’. It is easy to get lost in the "What plugins can I use?" thought. It is easy to forget that sound design is more about communication. It might be interesting and rewarding to take a step back from the computer to … [Read more...]
Ideas in Sound Design: Semiotics and Language – Part 2
Cross-posting from my personal blog. In my last article, I talked about Semiotics and encouraged sound designers and editors to think of sound for picture as a language; or, at least, as a component of the language used by any given film. I'd rather not rehash the specific elements of Semiotics that were discussed. There are several ideas that I'm going to assume you've read … [Read more...]
Ideas in Sound Design: Semiotics and Language – Part 1
Cross-posting from my personal blog. Let's start off with a disclaimer. I am no expert in linguistics and semantics, nor would I consider myself truly conversant in the many critical models employed in film theory/criticism. Semiotics was something waved in front of my eyes a couple of times during undergrad (where I did not studio audio or film, by the way), then explored in … [Read more...]