More than 550 editors, re-recording mixers, sound designers, composers, chief engineers, facility owners, educators and technologists from across the country visited Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, Calif., on Saturday, October 13, for the fifth annual Mix Presents Sound for Film & Television.
From the opening keynote speech “The Art of Interactive Storytelling: From the Campfire to the Virtual,” by longtime supervising sound editor, sound designer and interactive audio pioneer Scott M. Gershin, to the closing Dolby Atmos clip of Venom at the Sound Reel Showcase, attendees were treated to 12 hours of nonstop sound-for-picture education.
The main Mix Panel Series, held in the Burt Lancaster Theater, featured: a sound editorial focus in Sound Design for Animation, sponsored by Event Partner MPSE; a mixing panel on Mixing Dialogue: The Audio Pipeline, sponsored by Event Partner CAS; and a technology panel on Building an Immersive Room: Small, Medium and Large, sponsored by Westlake Pro.
Scott M. Gershin delivers the keynote speech “The Art of Storytelling: From the Campfire to the Virtual” to a capacity crowd in the Cary Grant Theater.
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Westlake Pro sponsored the Mix Panel Series’ technology panel “Building an Immersive Room.” From left: Tom Kenny, Mix editor and moderator; George Adjieff, CEO, Westlake Pro; Jose Castellon, Dolby; Eric Beam, Formosa Group; and Jeremy Davis, Sony Engineering.
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The Mix Panel Series’ mixing panel “Mixing Dialog: The Audio Pipeline,” sponsored by Event Partner CAS, played to a packed house in the Burt Lancaster Theater.
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Glenn Kiser of the Dolby Education Institute, left, hosts a session in The Composers Lounge with part of the music team behind A Star Is Born.
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The new Theater 1, a Dolby Atmos sound design suite occupied by the ubiquitous Will Files, was packed for a presentation on the immersive design for Venom.
Additional programs were held in the Barbra Streisand Scoring Stage, where the Cinema Audio Society presented the popular Parade of Carts & Bags and a panel on Ambisonic Recording, and the Composers Lounge, now in its second year as a living room-style forum within the Anthony Quinn Theater, sponsored by Soundworks Collection.
Related: Mix Presents Sound for Film & Television 2018, Sep. 6, 2018
At the large Cary Grant Theater, Avid held presentations on The Sound of Streaming Content; Monitoring and Control for Immersive Audio; The Future Is Female; and S6 Console Demos. Dolby, meanwhile, took over the new Theater 1, a mid-size Dolby Atmos sound design suite where Will Files works and presented The Dolby Atmos Experience and Hands-On Lab, along with a special packed hour with Will Files playing back tracks from Venom. Yamaha/Steinberg had a hit with the new Nuendo 8.3 and its collection of VR/AR-friendly tools, to go with speakers, keyboards, Cubase and the powerhouse Nuage. Meyer Sound took over two rooms, one to show a mid-sized Acheron immersive system in Will Files’ other sound design room, along with a stereo playback of the still-new and revolutionary Bluehorn System.
Other sponsors included Formosa Group, which hosts the popular Sound Reel Showcase, featuring reels from 11 films, introduced by members of the sound team; RSPE Audio Solutions; Sound Particles; iZotope; Tonsturm; and Audionamix.
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