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.” […]
Sound
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. […]
Features
Last Year’s Award Winners Discuss Their Work
Most recent award victors queried actually admitted, that if you’re good at what you do, you’ll get work––award winner or not. […]
Union Made
An Ear for a Career
A very summer, my family got invited to the Paramount Studio picnic by my uncle, Al Zuniga. New movie and TV stars would appear; most notably for me were the Cartwrights from Bonanza. Al was Paramount’s trailer editor and his job really intrigued me. […]
Union Made
UNION MADE: Following in Father’s Footsteps
I started editing quarter-inch reels of recorded audio sessions, then got bumped up to an assistant working with film on a Moviola. I was surprised by how much I liked it.
Features
(Mis)Taken for Lost and Gone: Nicholas Renbeck Resurrects Brian Wilson
The independent movie is infused with the iconic sounds of the 1960s group and shows the in-studio process. […]
Features
Noise Makers: Foley Artists Enhance Character Through Sound Effects
The old edict “Necessity is the mother of invention” certainly rings true for Foley artists — the people who create sounds for film and television. To be a Foley artist is to be creative and detail-oriented, intuitive and analytical; they must be in good physical condition and, as it turns out, quite often a mind reader.
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Features
Robert Redford’s Golden Ears: The Sound Editors of ‘Lions for Lambs’
Richard Hymns is busy working on the film with assistant supervising sound editor Andre Fenley and sound designer Frank Eulner at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California […]
