Now Hear This: 2019 Mix Event at Sony Gave Sound Pros a Chance to Pick Up Secrets Buried in the Tracks
“The show’s music sets the tone.” […]
Music Editors
What Our Members Do: Jillinda Palmer, Music Editor
“My biggest challenge is navigating the dynamics between producers and mixers.” […]
What Price Innocence?
‘When They See Us’ Recounts the Journey of Five Wrongfully Convicted Teens
In 1989, five teenagers of color were arrested and accused of the rape and brutal beating of a white woman who had been jogging in Central Park. Although the DNA on the rape kit didn’t match any of the young men, they were first coerced to “confess” and convicted by juries in two separate trials in 1990. Dubbed the Central Park Five, the boys became men during their six to 13 years in prison before a convicted serial rapist confessed to the attacks in 2002. […]
Look What THEY Did!
Guild Celebrates Women’s History Month
On March 23, 2019, the Motion Picture Editors Guild’s Women’s Steering Committee organized an evening celebration in the Guild’s Dede Allen Seminar Room honoring Women’s History Month. […]
‘Making Waves’ to Premiere at Tribeca
The documentary Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, which CineMontage wrote about in October 2017, will receive its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City in late April. […]
MPSE Announces Golden Reel Award Nominations
The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) has announced the nominees for the 66th Annual MPSE Golden Reel Awards. Nominees represent the work of the world’s most talented sound artists and their contributions to the past […]
Way Down Below the Ocean…
Music Fit for the King of Atlantis
Although they are still in the frenzy of the final mix in early October, co-music editors Paul Rabjohns and J.J. George somehow find time to usher a visitor onto a Warner Bros. mixing stage to discuss their one-year-plus adventure editing the music track for a new superhero epic, James Wan’s ‘Aquaman.’ […]
A Spoonful of Sonics: Immersing ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ in Songs and Sounds
Released in 1964, director Robert Stevenson’s original ‘Mary Poppins,’ starring Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson and Glynis Johns, set a benchmark in the Walt Disney Studios canon of full-energy musicals. […]
Inheritors of ‘The Wind’:
Murawski and Segal Finish Welles’ Final Film
Orson Welles was looking forward to editing ‘The Other Side of the Wind.’ In 1970, before he had even begun shooting what became his now-fabled unfinished (until this year) film, Welles discussed his post-production plans in a conversation with his friend, actor-director-writer Peter Bogdanovich. […]
What Our Members Do:
Seth Glennie-Smith
For me, the most exciting part of the job is taking music written by the composer and finding sneaky ways to reintegrate it into different parts of the show. This not only establishes thematic continuity, but also helps speed the process along. […]