Features
Is Your Room in Tune?
Sound editors and mixers need to be confident that their room acoustics are not skewing their judgment. […]
Sound
My Most Memorable Film
Jay Boekelheide on ‘The Right Stuff’
The canvas of The Right Stuff (1983) is rightly thought of as large — Herculean, even. In recounting the history of America’s valiant test pilots and astronauts, writer-director Philip Kaufman’s adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s acclaimed book is peopled by an enormous cast, and it traverses the earth, sea and outer space. […]
Features
Plugged-In for Sound: Recommended DAW Add-Ons for Designers and Editors
With the ubiquitous digital audio workstation (DAW) now a key creative tool for not only sound designers and supervising sound editors, but also re-recording mixers, the choice of plug-ins can make the difference between an average clip and a truly attention-grabbing track. […]
Features
Sound Support
Many of the people who work in the production and post-production communities are, by their very nature, unsung heroes. […]
Industry
Sound Immersion at AES
The 141st Audio Engineering Society Convention, held recently in the Los Angeles Convention Center’s West Hall, attracted a record West Coast attendance, with a wide cross-section of brands showing their wares on the exhibition floor and companion demo rooms. […]
Departments
ADR Addenda
After the publication of my article, “Automatic for the People,” in the last issue of CineMontage (Q1 2017), I received […]
Guild
What Our Members Do: Marko Costanzo
“Foley artists create sounds in sync with actions seen on screen. We will make the footstep sounds for every character in a film, giving their steps the personality the actor portrays on camera.” […]
Web Exclusives
Shaping the ‘Detroit’ Sound:
Paul N.J. Ottosson
On July 23, 1967, a police raid on an unlicensed after-hours bar in Detroit precipitated five days of major racial violence. A half century later, director Kathryn Bigelow presented a vivid perspective on this uprising and its place in our social history in the film ‘Detroit.’ […]
Columns
Cartoons Created a Career Choice
Growing up in Tucson in the late ’70s and ’80s, I enjoyed cartoons. Some I learned were originally Japanese produced and were re-picture-edited, re-dubbed and re-marketed to US audiences. Later, I got an idea that I wanted to be a part of this — and create better-sounding — animation. […]
Guild
What Our Members Do: Moises Cruz
The vault is the very first department through which each media asset goes. My job is to make sure that each asset is assigned a unique barcode number and that every single detail is entered into our inventory system for all tracking purposes. […]
