Scooby Doo
Scooby Doo supervising sound editor Michael Wilhoit seems like a pretty normal guy. Still, you have to figure that to work on this kind...
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Scooby Doo supervising sound editor Michael Wilhoit seems like a pretty normal guy. Still, you have to figure that to work on this kind...
After working on five Steven Spielberg films, three of which have garnered Academy Awards for sound effects editing, sound designer Gary Rydstrom and
The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE; www.mpse.org) held its 49th Annual Golden Reel Awards, honoring outstanding achievements in sound and music editorial
Other films may have bigger budgets, bigger stars. They may even have bigger opening weekends. But no film series has gripped the imagination of...
Canadian film composer Mychael Danna has invented a highly diverse career for himself. Because most of the films Danna works on delve into intense...
Cinesonic was created by Bill Sheppard and Dean Giammarco, two guys who had a ton of work on their hands and nowhere to complete...
A woman. Her preteen daughter. A giant old Manhattan brownstone. A rainy night. Three dangerous thugs want something valuable inside the house and will
Glover Gill doesn't use Sonic Foundry's Acid or Coda Music Technology's Finale when he sits down (or stands, as sometimes is the case) to...
For the Panic Room orchestra sessions at Sony Pictures' scoring stage, Paul Levy, owner of L.A.'s Advanced Audio, designed a Fibre Channel SAN (Storage
Remember the old saw, Jack-of-all-trades, master of none? Well, one spin through the reels of sound designer Tim Gedemer and composer Sophia Morizet proves
No corner of the music industry calls for a blend of composing chops, speed and production skills more than episodic television. Often working with...
If you listen to the hype, interactive television is already here. It is, after all, now possible for viewers to vote on alternate endings,...
PDiddy is up on the Avid screen in one of the 11 video-editing suites at Goldcrest Post Production's facility on the far-west fringes of...
Every year, in the first week of February, the members of the Sound Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences gather...
If you haven't seen Milos Forman's Amadeus for a number of years, it's easy to forget what a great film it is. In a...
It's a truism these days in all worlds audio: Those who produce are working in the highest resolution possible, while those who consume often...
Is it that now-classic 200-track train wreck in The Fugitive? The gun battle denouement of L.A. Confidential? Squeaking bats juxtaposed against a roaring
Richard Wolf has some unconventional assistance while he composes music for the new WB Network animated television program Static Shock. When I get the
As a sound designer, I am always searching for new and interesting ways to re-create sounds, hoping to avoid that dissatisfying, heard-it-before feeling
Few films in recent years have been as hotly anticipated as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first movie to be made from...
It's autumn. A change of season is upon us, with the twilight of summer and the smell of frying power supplies in the air....
One of the most highly anticipated films of the summer is Steven Spielberg's A.I., a project that has been shrouded in secrecy worthy of...
With a Memorial Day weekend debut, Disney's much-anticipated Pearl Harbor seems a shoe-in for success. An epic love story set against the high action
It's the ultimate double-edged sword in the world of audio post-production for films the eye candy feature, as a remake, to boot. Yet, that's...
He knew! Composer Russ Landau knew that Richard was taking home the million bucks last fall, and he didn't tell a soul. We had...
Before the new Playstation2 game console was even on sale in the U.S., it was already clear that Sony had a hit on its...
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Composers heading to New York to find work in this town's audio post market are often cowed by the number of well-appointed project studios...
The Sony Pictures Entertainment lot was abuzz at the end of May with the controlled rush to bring Mel Gibson and the drama of...
For the film score, the producers were fortunate to secure the participation of two-time Oscar winner John Williams, whose many screen credits include
I'm currently mixing a new ABC dramatic series called Wonderland about Bellevue psychiatric hospital. As you can imagine, it's a madhouse. There's tons
Concert composer Michael Schelle may have never written music for film, but after penning his most recent book, it's safe to say he knows...
A Tim Burton movie would seem on the surface to be a sound editor's playpen-stylized imagery, dark characters, evocative settings. Whether it's the scissor
The first time composer/engineer Steve Wood wrote for orchestra, he had to purchase a one-month pass to his chiropractor. No joke. His back went...
Because so many in our little industry gather in the Big Apple for the October AES convention, I decided it would be appropriate to...
It doesn't take an insider to see that the New York post-production industry is booming. New shops are opening up, commercial mixing facilities are...
A master of the art in the classic sense, Leslie Ann Jones is, first and foremost, a truly musical engineer. Highly respected by her...
In 1977, in a galaxy very close to home, Star Wars changed the way movies are made and released, ushering in the age of...
Some of the greatest themes in film music-like "Lara's Theme" from Dr. Zhivago or "Also Sprach Zarathustra" from 2001: A Space Odyssey-have cemented key