The Walter Murch Special ends here, a very interesting journey through the articles of one of the most important men in the history of audio and video creation. November will be a great month for the blog... If you were hoping for game audio articles, you'll love the November Special! Finally, let's read a nice round of interviews of Walter Murch selected form several … [Read more...]
Walter Murch Special: K-19: The Widowmaker
The history of the disaster of the sovietic nuclear-submarine K-19 presented in theaters, with K-19: The Widowmaker, an independent film that cost $100,000,000 to make. It's about the disaster of the sovietic nuclear-submarine K-19. An interesting film with a lot of work of foley and impressive recording.. Walter Murch worked as re-recording mixer. Let's read this article on … [Read more...]
Walter Murch Special: The Process of Transition and The Role Of Sound In The Image Interpretation
The Walter Murch Special continues! With more sound techniques and fantastic theories by the sound master Walter Murch. Let's check two artibles of Filmsound. The first one is an interview where he talks mainly about Transitions: At the basic level, a transition is simply the process of changing from some state A to another state, B. What we should examine carefully is the … [Read more...]
Walter Murch Special: Touch Of Evil
Another amazing work by Walter Murch, with the sound and picture editing on the remake of Touch Of Evil. Really interesting techniques applied in both sound and picture. And as usual in Walter Murch articles... you can't miss this! Orson Welles' 1957 film noir masterpiece, Touch of Evil, has recently been re-edited and released to enthusiastic reviews--many revolving around … [Read more...]
Walter Murch Special: Womb Tone and Dense Clarity/Clear Density
Walter Murch has created for an essay called Womb Tone as a companion to his lecture, Dense Clarity - Clear Density, published at Transom. The article is illustrated with sound and film clips, detailing all the process. Don't miss it!.. is very interesting. Womb Tone Hearing is the first of our senses to be switched on, four-and-a-half months after we are conceived. And for … [Read more...]
Walter Murch Special: BAFTA Lecture
I found at USO a really interesting lecture of Walter Murch at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2003. He talks about picture and sound. If you are interested in film/sound editing, this will be very interesting. Walter Murch in conversation at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2003. Winner of 3 BAFTA Awards and 3 Oscars for picture editing and … [Read more...]
Walter Murch Special: Apocalypse Now
Walter Murch was the sound designer and sound editor for the known film Apocalypse Now, a classic film with fantastic sound editing and magical sound design. There is an interview at Salon.com with Walter Murch, who talks about the sound of Apocalypse Now and the techniques he used. When did you and Francis know that you would key so much of the movie off the sound of the … [Read more...]