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...
Category - Sound Design
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...
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...
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...
The Future of Cinema Sound?
Dolby Atmos – the sound of the future? Wired magazine has a great article on the behind the scenes work that has gone into the development and roll out of Dolby’s new sonic cinema...
Adobe Audition and Prelude CS6 first looks
Getting started with Audition & Prelude CS6 Larry Jordan has a couple of lengthy blog posts on his thoughts on using Audition and Prelude in a post production workflow. He comments on many of the...
The Avengers Sound Design
Sound Design on The Avengers Michael Coleman of the Soundworks Collection has several interesting behind the scenes featurettes on the sound design and music production of many the latest Hollywood...
Batman The Dark Knight Post Production
Editing Batman The Dark Knight I’m a big fan of Christopher Nolan’s movies, I can’t think of one I haven’t enjoyed both from an entertainment perspective and a craft or...
Walter Murch on Sound Design
An hour with Walter Murch discussing Hollywood sound design…
Free digital specification guides and short cut cheat-sheets
If you need help remembering how fast transfer speeds are over firewire 800, or what the target bit rates are for RED-RAW or what the shortcut is for ‘add edit’ in FCP7 then look no...
Audio Explosion
Resonance is 11 minutes of animated audio exploration combining the creativity and talent of 20 international animators and 11 of ‘the best sound design studios’ around. My personal...