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Interview with sound designer Gary Rydstrom


December 21, 2011

Over at the Unidentified Sound Object blog, Matteo Milani and Federico Placidi have a fine interview up with Academy Award-winning sound designer Gary Rydstrom:
 

USO: What does it mean for you to associate a particular sound to a visual event (identifying it in a vast catalogue as big as the sound library of SkySound)? What are the mental or purely instinctive paths competing in making the choice?
 
GR: Something magical happens when a sound effect is added to picture – and it’s not predictable. After all my years of doing it, I still depend on experimenting, putting sounds against image and seeing what happens. First time I did this, as a film student, it amazed me how sound could “open up” a movie, how the combination of sound and visual could create something greater than the sum parts. Having a great sound library is essential, but the real secret is how one uses it.
 

 
Read the full interview with Gary Rydstrom here.





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The Evolution of Movie Sound with Francis Ford Coppola


December 5, 2011

As early as the Apocalypse Now movie in 1979 when Francis Ford Coppola and sound designer Walter Murch pioneered a quadraphonic sound system for the film tour, Coppola has made sound and audio technology an important part of filmmaking, including building a dedicated mixing facility, American Zoetrope.
 
In 2010, under the direction of Coppola, Zoetrope was turned into one of the first post-production facilities to install a Meyer Sound EXP cinema loudspeaker system on its rerecording stage and has since upgraded the other rooms to EXP. Tetro and Twixt are two of his movies that were mixed on an EXP system.

 

In this video, Coppola chats about the evolving role of sound in his storytelling and his sound facility in Napa.

 

 





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The sound of ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2′


July 15, 2011

Michael Coleman over at the SoundWorks Collection has yet another brilliant feature up – this time on the sound for the final installment in the Harry Potter series. Have a look below:

 

 





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Sounds for superheroes


October 25, 2010

In this feature on Charles Maynes, Miguel Isaza takes a look at the sound for the Spiderman and The Fantastic Four movies:


The films Spider-Man and Fantastic Four were tour-de-forces of creativity, both visually and sonically. The superhero franchise is really one of the venues for sound design that can be both fun and challenging due to the character flaws and traits of the protagonist, and the usually insanely busy nature of the story and how it takes the heros from the relatively typical, to the extraordinary.


These stories also typically enjoy a “super-sized” villain with all sorts of fantastic schemes to destroy the hero, or heroes..


Read the full feature on superhero sounds right here.






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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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