Guild
What Our Members Do: Dominick Tavella, CAS
In 2012, Sound One, the studio I was working at, abruptly closed (with one week’s notice!) and I had about four or five months of solid work lined up ready to start in three weeks or so. […]
Re-recording Mixers
Features
Dede Allen to Receive Guild’s Fellowship and Service Award
The Motion Picture Editors Guild has selected veteran film editor Dede Allen, ACE, to be the 2008 recipient of the Guild’s prestigious Fellowship and Service Award. […]
Features
A Joint Venture: Cutting Stoned on Pineapple Express
To help navigate through all the improvised sequences, Alpert extensively used Avid’s Script Tool, an older but still useful utility on a movie such as ‘Pineapple Express’. […]
Features
Film School Confidential: Does It Really Matter?
In the age of YouTube, making movies no longer seems complicated. With an expanding range of visual media and easy access to affordable camcorders and editing software, many can shoot and arrange scenes without a big crew. […]
Features
Big Sound, Small Budget: Sonically Recreating the Sixties for ‘Bobby’
What comes through in ‘Bobby’, from start to finish, is the trueness of all the performances and the passion that went into making it. […]
Features
Like Mother, Like Son: Tom Fleischman Joined the Family Business
CineMontage spoke with Tom Fleischman about his mother (Dede Allen) and what he learned from her. […]
Features
The Pursuit of Hippie-ness:
Editing the Music for ‘Taking Woodstock’
‘Taking Woodstock’ is a movie of source music—and not just the kind that comes from a radio playing on a tabletop. Designed to blend seamlessly with the needle-drop tunes, a lot of that was provided by the “live” hippies. […]
Union Made
UNION MADE: How Does One Become a Sound Engineer Anyway?
I am still passionately involved—working with clients who require cost-effective methods of designing post-production facilities, recording studios, acoustics and home theatres internationally and am proud to be part of this strenuous but great business. […]
This Quarter in Film History
Wartime Precedent
Director Ridley Scott’s award-winning film ‘Black Hawk Down’ was based on a distinguished nonfiction book entitled ‘Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War’ by Mark Bowden. […]
This Quarter in Film History
One in Eight Million
Sixty-five years after the semi-documentary film The Naked City (1948) premiered in March 1948, it still reveals much about New York City that has not changed. […]
