Departments
Totally Involved in the Cutting Room
“Editing a film is making the film as much as shooting it or writing it is.” Woody Allen told me that when I interviewed him in 1996 for “DGA Magazine,” for which I served as editor. […]
Recordists
Columns
Blame It on the Beatles
The Launch of an All-Around Sound Career
When I was born and raised in the west San Fernando Valley in the late 1950s; television was black-and-white, radio was mono and AM radio channel KHJ with “The Real Don Steele” was the coolest thing. […]
Features
Disney’s Deus Ex Machine Shop
In the early days of the motion picture industry, progress often required that new technologies be innovated by a studio that was advancing the art of cinema. […]
Columns
Robert “Bubba” Nichols on ‘Top Gun’
To hear Robert “Bubba” Nichols describe it, working as a recordist sounds a little like serving as a fighter pilot. Okay, okay — pilots operate under life-and-death pressures in the air, while recordists toil under far less challenging conditions on a re-recording stage. […]
Features
El Sonido de ‘Narcos’
Scheduled to unveil on September 2 in its 10-episode entirety, Season 2 of Netflix’s hit series Narcos is expected to prove as popular as the initial offering — and probably will be viewed in extended binge-watching sessions […]
Features
Recording Artists: One of the Oldest Sound Classifications Faces Uncertainty
Perhaps no other classification in the Guild is so caught in the middle between yesterday and tomorrow, with one foot in the analogue past and the other in the digital present, and a future that is still very much to be determined. […]
Features
The Box That Shook Hollywood: Television’s Emergence
Legendary movie producer Sam Goldwyn wrote the quote, opposite, in an article for The New York Times Magazine in 1949, just as television was emerging as a major mass medium. […]
Features
A Good Way to Mic and Mix Scoring Sessions
Orchestral layout is highly dependent upon the type of film music being recorded, according to scoring mixer John Kurlander. […]
Features
Mixes Well with Others: Recordists and Re-Recording Mixers Collaborate
These days, it takes a team of talented post-production professionals to prepare soundtracks for motion pictures and network/cable TV programs. […]
