Features
Robert Altman: The Sound Crew’s Best Companion
From the beginning of his film career in the early 1950s, filmmaker Robert Altman has utilized sound in unorthodox and spontaneous ways. […]
Re-recording Mixers
Features
Score Keepers: Mixers Who Capture Composers’ Cues
They say brevity is the soul of wit, and scoring mixers seem to have a sense of humor about what their job entails. “We get coffee for the composer. End of inter- view,” Alan Meyerson jokes. Well, not so fast. […]
Union Made
UNION MADE: Straight Outta Detroit
My mother, father, aunt and uncles were all in the teachers union. I learned from an early age how unions can help us make our lives better. […]
Features
Don’s Devotees: Some Words from His Admirers …
A compilations of praise and memorable stories for award winning re-recording mixer Donald O. Mitchell. […]
Features
Wylie Stateman, Andy Koyama and Beau Borders Lay the Soundtrack to ‘Lone Survivor’
“There were several gun battles and a serious rocky fall that contained no traditionally scored music. The absence of music allowed our sound effects and Foley to take the soundtrack’s exclusive and full dynamic range.” – Wylie Stateman […]
Features
What Does A Wormhole Sound Like?
It’s not surprising that director Christopher Nolan drove the sound to a greater extent than ever before on his first space adventure, Interstellar, opening November 7 through Paramount Pictures. That’s because it was pivotal that the organic nature of the aesthetic worked for soundscape and imagery alike.
Features
Andy Nelson: 2014 CAS Career Achievement Award
Re-recording mixer Andy Nelson, CAS, brings to his craft several decades of experience in the art of balancing dialogue, music and sound effects in an immersive soundtrack that supports the director’s storytelling vision […]
Web Exclusives
The Post-Production Challenge of Bringing ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ to the Screen
War for the Planet of the Apes, the third chapter of 20th Century Fox’s latest reboot of the Planet of the Apes franchise, opened July 14, almost three years to the day after Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the second in the series. […]
Columns
Rick Alexander on ‘Ronin’
In 1998, when re-recording mixers Rick Alexander and Richard D. Rogers first met with director John Frankenheimer about working on “Ronin,” there were many subjects that could have been discussed. […]
Web Exclusives
Return of the Replicants:
Post Tech Informs ‘Blade Runner 2049’
As one of the most anticipated sequels, with one of the longest waits ever for it to come to fruition, ‘Blade Runner 2049’ pays tribute to Ridley Scott’s iconic sci-fi offering from 1982. […]
