Category Archives: Sound Design

What is the Best Microphone for Recording Voice Over?

What’s the best microphone for Voice Overs? I needed a new microphone to record a voice over for a recent project and set about trying to find out what the best microphone to get would be. As with anything there’s … Continue reading

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Inside Pixar’s New Short Film

A sneak peak at Pixar’s latest short film Fast Company have a quick interview with Saschka Unseld, a very talented animator, director and DP who has worked on Brave, Cars 2 and Toy Story 3. He is also the man behind … Continue reading

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Zero Dark Thirty – Post Production

Behind the Scenes on Zero Dark Thirty I really enjoyed Kathryn Bigelow’s previous film The Hurt Locker – mostly for the thrillingly suspenseful action. So I’m really looking forward to seeing Zero Dark Thirty, politically charged though it is (and … Continue reading

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Sound Design on Star Wars, Flight & Looper

Creative Sound Design on Star Wars This is a great video featuring sound design ‘godfather’ Ben Burtt on the sound design needed to create the Star Wars universe. Ben Burtt also did the sound for Pixar’s Wall-E and in this … Continue reading

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Creating the sound design for a promo for Sound Design

The Sound Design for a Promo for Rampant Design Film Editor’s Sound Effects Packs Alan Pfiel from Rampant Design has a good tutorial on how he created the sound design for the promo film for Rampant Design’s SoundFX for Editors … Continue reading

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Finishing in Final Cut Pro X

Finishing Your Project in FCPX Oliver Peter’s has a great article on colour grading in FCP X to finish your project. Demonstrating just how much is possible (although why wouldn’t you just use DaVinci Resolve Lite?) in the latest version … Continue reading

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Film Trailer Sound Design

Film Trailer Sound Design Half of a film trailer is usually the race to the crescendo ending and possibly one or two extra beats of surprise endings after the title just for good measure, and the other half is the use of … Continue reading

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How to be a great sound editor

Sound editing 30 minute bootcamp Vickie Sampson presented this 30 minute walk through at LAFCPUG about what your sound editor needs from all aspects of production, but also from you as the film editor. She refers to several documents during … Continue reading

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Edit Fest LA (The view from the Internet)

Edit Fest LA – An outsiders view Living in London there was very little way for me to get to LA for Edit Fest but thanks to the mighty internet, and some gracious tweeters here is a round up of … Continue reading

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Sound Design on The Dark Knight Rises

Behind the scenes on The Dark Knight Rises The SoundWorks Collection by Michael Coleman is always worth keeping an eye on for his 10 minute behind the scenes featurettes on the sound design of the latest blockbuster. This instalment on The Dark … Continue reading

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