Features
Location ADR: A Moveable Feast
It’s not only the “when” of ADR that is being re-examined, but also the “how” and “where.” […]
Television
Departments
Post-Production Trumps Politics
If you can get past the non-stop distraction of the build-up to our nation’s bitterly contested presidential election, which has been playing across media outlets like a real-time reality show […]
Departments
Golden Age? Show Me the Coinage
My few forays into non-feature editing were no less challenging. But they paid less money. […]
Industry
‘Sicario’ and ‘The Big Short’ Score Feature Wins at HPA Awards
On a chilly Thursday evening in mid-November, the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA, formerly the Hollywood Post Alliance) celebrated the presentation of its 11th Annual HPA Awards at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. […]
Union Made
UNION MADE: A Career Plan? Who, Me?
Some people have a plan. I did not, do not, and am still not sure what I would like to be when I grow up. Oh, I am mostly grown, middle-aged, halfway to somewhere. Opportunities and luck drew me. […]
Union Made
Striking Just the Right Balance
A ”Jack-of-all-trades and master of none” is what I thought of myself until I turned 30. […]
Features
The Box That Shook Hollywood: Television’s Emergence
Legendary movie producer Sam Goldwyn wrote the quote, opposite, in an article for The New York Times Magazine in 1949, just as television was emerging as a major mass medium. […]
Features
Mixes Well with Others: Recordists and Re-Recording Mixers Collaborate
These days, it takes a team of talented post-production professionals to prepare soundtracks for motion pictures and network/cable TV programs. […]
Features
Technical Challenges
The CBS-TV hit Big Brother, hosted by Julie Chen and now in its 18th season, has a winning formula: Viewers watch a diverse group of people living together in a house, as […]
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. […]
