Features
May the Sound Be with You: AMPAS Looks Back at Action-Adventure Sound Effects
Some excerpts from a panel of sound effects professionals. […]
Sound
Features
The Ones That Got Away: Editing and Sound Oscars That Should Have Been
With the clarity of hindsight,perhaps the Academy can find a way to single out those films of past years that may have been unjustly overlooked.
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
Audio Dexterity: ‘Dexter’s’ Sonic Dark Passengers
The producers see the character of Dexter as having different, sonically distinct modes of operation; that drives their creative decisions. […]
Union Made
UNION MADE: Come On, Feel the Noise
I was preparing for a career in Foley. Whether I was imitating a birdcall that I heard during recess or pantomiming the rhythm of Miss Brady’s heels clip-clopping down the hall, I’ve always had a heightened awareness of sound and movement. […]
Letters to the Editor
A True Pioneer in Recording Overlapping Dialogue
Giving credit to John Stephens for the development of a portable, 59-pound, battery-operated 8-track machine. […]
Features
Unsung Heroes of Sound
The smooth operation of a post facility depends upon the skills of a well-staffed engineering department to ensure that editors and mixers can work efficiently to create a film/TV soundtrack. In order to throw an inquisitive spotlight on the roles played by a number of leading “unsung heroes” from our industry — who work behind the scenes to ensure minimum downtime — CineMontage reached out to Brian Bair from 20th Century Fox Post-Production Services, Steve Boze from Walt Disney Studios, Kevin Collier from Warner Bros. Studio Facilities, Bill Johnston and Charlie Campagna from Formosa Group/Audio Head, and Michael Novitch from Technicolor at Paramount. […]
Union Made
UNION MADE: Sounds Like a Great Way to Begin a Career…
Knowing that I was unhappy with my apartment maintenance job, my cousins invited me to travel with them as their soundman. There was no pay, but they thought I might go for it. They were right; I accepted! […]
Features
Celebrating a Sonic Centennial: Everything You Wanted to Know About the History of Cinema Sound
Have you seen Laurel and Hardy do exactly the same skit in both a silent and a sound version? Was it actually the quality of John Gilbert’s voice that doomed his career in the talkies? What beloved classic movie used Fantasound? Why did editors resist changing from optical to magnetic sound? […]
