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Sound Designers. Movies. General. Foley. Film Composers. Directors talking about Composers. Dialog. A Theory of Film Music. Custom Built Orchestra on Behance. David Lynch and the Independent Filmmaker. Room to Dream: David Lynch and the Independent Filmmaker features original interviews with acclaimed director David Lynch. See and hear how Lynch brings his unique vision to the screen with technologies that are now within easier reach for independent filmmakers. Interspersed with behind-the-scenes footage from a recent project, Lynch muses on the art of filmmaking, offers wisdom to aspiring filmmakers, and shows you the power of today's tools to give you Room to Dream.

When David Lynch isn’t making films, he looks to spend a lot of time into talking about making films. Every other day there seems to be a new documentary/featurette cropping up where Lynch talks about filmmaking and how beautifully poetic it is. As far as we’re concerned, he can just keep doing that. In the twenty minute interview, Lynch touches upon how the advent of technology has allowed the independent filmmakers greater access to tools and techniques than ever before. Did a jet just fly by and ruin a perfect scene?

Epic Trailer Music Composer Yoav Goren (Immediate Music) The SoundWorks Collection talks with Composer Yoav Goren in his Santa Monica studio to explore the exciting and creative process of epic trailer music composing and producing. About Yoav Goren: Born in Israel and raised in New York City, Goren was born into a family of artists that includes a sculptor, painter, and filmmaker. Encouraged early to study piano, he was heavily influenced first by classical composers, and then by the Beatles and film composers Ennio Morricone, Jerry Goldsmith and John Barry. He started composing during his studies at NYU, where he graduated with a BA in Film and Television Production. After gigging and touring with several bands in the USA as keyboard player, Goren settled in Los Angeles where he met and worked with the legendary Leonard Cohen on the acclaimed CD The Future (1992) as arranger and co-producer. In 2007, Goren’s work on NBC's “20th Torino Winter Olympic Games” earned him an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Music Composition in a Sports Program".

From Wax to Bits: Dynamics of the Film Sound Medium. Photo by flickr user Carbon Arc, and used under Creative Commons license. As dynamics month comes to a close, I thought it would be fun to talk about the evolution of film sound mediums and how they impact dynamics. Since the widespread introduction of sync sound to films in the early 20th century, the technologies involved have changed quite dramatically.

From experiments with wax cylinders and phonographs to magnetic tape and Dolby Digital, each evolution in sound technology improved fidelity and dynamics, giving sound designers greater power in creating artificial worlds and engaging the audience. The Early Years Almost as soon as motion pictures were introduced in the late 1800s, inventors and artists the world over began searching for a way of synchronizing sound with the images. Even Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb and the phonograph, experimented with sound films. Unfortunately Vitaphone, like many other sound-on-disc systems, had some sync issues. Sound-on-film References: HISS and a ROAR 3rd birthday: interview with Tim Prebble. From today Tim launches a sale for HISS and a ROAR, offering a massive 50% discount for first week and 33% for second week. Use the discount code: MEOW. Good luck! Hi Tim, thanks for taking the time to talk to me. It’s the 2nd time we meet here: you were our first interview in english.

Thanks Gianpaolo, it feels like only yesterday but three years has passed since then and over that period I’ve recorded and released 16 sound libraries and 6 ambience libraries for HISS and a ROAR (and have another 3 libraries recorded and waiting for time to edit!). According to my opinion, you are the model of the perfect modern Sound professional: you have a blog (and you write your opinions and experience), you create sound libraries in a regular way and you sell them on the web, you create video teasers to promote your work. Thanks for the kind words, but it is all work in progress and the more I learn and explore, the more I realise there is so much more to learn and explore! I dream of the day! Hollywood Scores & Soundtracks: What Do They Sound Like? Do They Sound Like Things?? Let's Find Out! In an Unlikely Echo Chamber, Lucasfilm Captures a Cinematic Gunshot | Wired Design. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Inside the eastern span of the new Bay Bridge.A view of the outside, including an 80-foot column that descends below sea level.The team enters the bridge.Into the pillar.Each section has a distinct code.Burtt balances above an open trap door.Prepping the mid-side mic.Watch where you point that thing.Bang.Below sea level, the water seeps in through thick concrete.

The trek to the bottom of Bay Bridge pillar number 7 (westbound) starts down a ladder below a squeaky metal trap door, continues downwards 80 feet or so on narrow metal stairs sandwiched in a column tight enough to touch either side at once, and ends by passing through a crawl space in about 3 inches of salt water. Once there, in a round concrete chasm, sunk beneath the San Francisco Bay, there’s enough room to stand up, which is what Benny Burtt does. And in the dim light of a little flashlight, he pulls out a pistol. Casey Langfelder adjusts his recorder. Modal Interchange | Film Scoring.info. Skywalker Sound. Sound Design Tutorial For Film: Audio & Pre-Production.

The Marvel Symphonic Universe. The simple education of Sound Design for Film. I still have impressed in my mind (and ears) when I followed the class of Electronic Music by prof. Lelio Camilleri, in which we learnt the basic concepts of Michel Chion’s audio vision just watching (and listening) some of the most memorable scenes from 2001: A Space Odyssey, with and without Sound. Good old times. Anyway I always felt strongly the need to have good examples for understanding and showing the role of audio in film and other fields. I could link many explanatory videos with this purpose, but for the most of times they are more or less commercial stuff, built by companies to make self-promotion and not education.

From my daily sessions of crazy big data surfing I discovered Sound design… what’s that by french sound designer Alexis Jung (website | IMDb | SoundCloud ), a video created with education in mind. Alexis gave me a short explanation of this work via email: The video is mostly composed of the following four parts: Again from Alexis’ words: Gianpaolo D'Amico Follow Me: The Sound and Music of Oblivion. Synopsis Tom Cruise stars in Oblivion, an original and groundbreaking cinematic event from the visionary director of TRON: Legacy and producers of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. On a spectacular future Earth that has evolved beyond recognition, one man's confrontation with the past will lead him on a journey of redemption and discovery as he battles to save mankind. 2077: Jack Harper (Cruise) serves as a security repairmen stationed on an evacuated Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying alien threat who still scavenges what's left of our planet, Jack's mission is almost complete.

In a matter of two weeks, he will join the remaining survivors on a lunar colony far from the war-torn world he has long called home. Living in and patrolling the breathtaking skies from thousands of feet above, Jack's soaring existence is brought crashing down after he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Sound Credits Comments. What are the greatest film scores of all time?