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. […]
Sound
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 […]
Book Reviews
Settling the Score
‘Music Editing for Film and Television’ gives ample attention to the artistry and personal character required to master this specialized profession. […]
Features
Canned Music Production Libraries for TV Are Now Calling the Tune
The public’s demand for feature-quality music in everything from reality shows to full-hour TV dramas–has turned the production music market into a half-billion-dollar-a-year intellectual property based business. […]
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
When Hollywood Rocked: Pop Music and Movies Weren’t a Perfect Match at First
The initial rock ‘n’ roll films produced in the mid-1950s are more interesting today as artifacts than as art. […]
