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The sound of “Salt”


September 9, 2010

“Salt” premieres today in Denmark, and here’s a fine feature on the sound from The Soundworks Collection:


Who is Salt? Uncover the sound behind “Salt” in this exclusive SoundWorks Collection Sound for Film Profile featuring Re-recording mixer Greg P. Russell, Re-recording mixer Jeff Haboush, and Re-recording mixer Scott Millan.





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The sound of Inception


July 24, 2010

Michael Coleman over at the Soundworks Collection delivers yet another great feature on film sound – this time around, on the audio for Christopher Nolan’s Inception. It features supervising sound editor and sound designer Richard King, re-recording Mixer Lora Hirschberg, and re-recording mixer Gary Rizzo.






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Creating the sound for Toy Story 3


June 19, 2010

The Soundworks Collection takes a look at the sound for Toy Story 3 in this excellent feature – check it out!


Join Skywalker Sound’s Re-Recording Mixer and Sound Designer Tom Myers, Sound Re-Recording Mixer Michael Semanick, Director Lee Unkrich, and Stuart Bowling, Technical Marketing Manager at Dolby Laboratories as they take you behind-the-scenes and discuss the sound of Toy Story 3.



Speaking of Toy Story 3, Tracksounds has reviewed Randy Newman’s score for the film – read all about it here.





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‘Pigeon Impossible’ – nice animated short


April 22, 2010

‘Pigeon Impossible’, a very nice animated short film with a fine soundtrack:




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What it takes to be a trailer composer


March 7, 2010

Electronic Musician has a feature on composer Kevin Teasley, and his take on what it takes to be a trailer composer. Here’s a snippet:



If you were new in town and you wanted to try to get into the trailer-composing business, what would be the two or three things you would do, knowing what you know now?


Make sure to become literate to the craft, the skill set — not only on the creative side, but the business side. Make sure to learn what composers are charging for certain cues, how they should be delivered, and who should mix them. How does the licensing work? Who licenses it for you? What are the terms that you should know? The one thing you really don’t want to happen is to finally get that meeting with that person you want, and when you leave they say, “This person has no clue.”

 

Read the full interview here.

 




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Great video interview series with Hans Zimmer


February 13, 2010

Thompson on Hollywood has a candid video interview series with Hans Zimmer on his scores for Sherlock Holmes, Inception, Dark Knight, It’s Complicated – and on composing in general.


Here’s the first part:

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You can view the rest here.


On a different note: We’re still tweaking the layout of this blog a bit, so if anything looks odd/broken momentarily, that’s why – and refreshing will probably (hopefully!) fix it.


But if you spot anything which is permanently broken or could be improved, do let us know.



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