2019 Emmys: See Photos of the Guild’s Nominated Women at MPEG Awards Brunch
“This event has grown in the most wonderful ways.” […]
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Emmys 2019: Foley Team Alyson Dee Moore and Chris Moriana Make the Right Noise on ‘Barry’ and ‘Star Trek: Discovery’
“This isn’t the real world … That’s our challenge, right?” […]
A Bundle of Sounds – New Krotos Audio Plug-Ins Cover a Spectrum of Sonic Effects
Along with a compelling musical score, convincing sound effects are one of the most important audible ingredients in a motion picture or television production. In a movie with a chase scene through the downtown area of a city, all sorts of sounds are required, such as revving engines, flying helicopters and the rapid fire of automatic weapons. In an off-world, sci-fi movie, you might need the sounds of futuristic spaceships, laser beams and robots (maybe even a scary monster or two). Whatever the movie happens to be, if you’re the sound designer, you’ll need to create authentic effects so that audiences believe what they’re watching is real. […]
Gregg Barbanell on ‘Breaking Bad’
Like most Foley artists, Gregg Barbanell, MPSE, aims for his work to go undetected by audiences. After all, footsteps should sound like they are emanating from the shoes of the actor who appears on screen, not the Foley artist behind-the-scenes, right? […]
A Sonic Odyssey: Sound Editors Share Their Personal Effects Library
The Odyssey Collection: Complete is a library featuring more than 100,000 sound effects in close to 300 categories. The library was created from sound editors Mark Mangini and Richard L. Anderson’s private archive built-up over 30 years of working in the feature film and TV post-production industries. […]
Jeannette Browning on ‘The Milagro Beanfield War’
From early in her career in the film business, Jeannette Browning recognized that she was something of a rarity. “I was really interested in dubbing, but I realized that there were no female dubbing mixers,” she says. […]
What Our Members Do: Rick Owens, MPSE
“As a Foley artist creating sound effects on a sound stage, I am responsible for bringing a natural human element to a sound track by re-creating the movements of characters as seen on screen: footsteps, clothes, props, etc.” […]
2019 Oscars: Post-Production ‘Rhapsody’
Once again, in what has become a trend at recent Oscars, the awards in all three post-production categories were swept by the same film, in this year’s case ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ the biopic of the British rock band Queen and its charismatic lead singer, Freddie Mercury. […]
Witch Doctors – ‘Sabrina’s’ Sound Crew Casts Its Spell
by Mel Lambert • portraits by Martin Cohen Inspired by the Sabrina the Teenage Witch comic book series from Archie Comics […]
What Our Members Do: Craig LoGiudice
“I discovered audio post while in school for audio engineering. Having always loved film, it seemed like a perfect fit artistically and, to be honest, a good way to make a living.” […]