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STUDENTFILMMAKERS: Can you tell us about your work as the Lead Sound Editor and Foley Editor for Disney’s “Mickey and the Roadster Racers,” which received Daytime Emmy Award and Annie Award nominations in 2018, and won the 2020 NAMIC Vision Awards in the Animation category? Brad Meyer, MPSE: “Mickey and the Roadster Racers” has been… …
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How to Find and Work with a Composer Communicate Across the Languages of Film and Music By Alison Plante As a film student, you probably learned something about directing, cinematography, screenwriting, editing, maybe even sound. But there’s one area of filmmaking which, though often central to the storytelling, is not taught in film school: Music!… …
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A Conversation with Jan Roberts-Breslin STUDENTFILMMAKERS: What is the relationship between sound and image in motion pictures? What is important? Jan Roberts-Breslin: A professor of mine in graduate school once said the more obvious-sounding but brilliant thing about sound and image. He said, you don’t have to hear what you’re looking at. It opens up… …
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Overcome the Challenges of Working with Temp Scores “To Temp or Not to Temp.” By Oscar Jasso Temp scores (as in temporary music) have been used more and more in recent decades, thanks to the amazing evolution of technology that allows music and film editors to borrow music from sources, such as songs or other… …
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Pictured above: Peter Dowsett in Metropolis Studios, London, working with an SSL 9000 J console. STUDENTFILMMAKERS: What is the relationship between music and image in motion pictures? What is important? Peter Dowsett: Well, I think the relationship is what ties all of the arts: emotion. There is an emotion that needs to be conveyed. Picture… …
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A chemist turned audio engineer and musician, Mark Sarisky has worked more than 35 years in the music industry as a producer and engineer and has several gold and platinum certified recordings to his credit. He also has 12 years of academic experience as a professor and director of audio technology programs he developed. Mark… …
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A Conversation with Stephen B. Ward In addition to over 30 years as an educator in Music Technology, Stephen B. Ward is a composer and an active performer, playing keyboards and singing with several musical artists, including Uncle Izzy, The Beeps, Mimi Maura and Tundra Ghosts. Film scoring credits include Murder Too Sweet (1994), Eternal Memory: Voices… …
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As a busy freelance Re-Recording Mixer / Sound Designer and college educator, I get asked a lot about starting out, or making an upward move, in the industry. The answers to these questions are not so different than they were seventeen years ago when I was asking them, but there are some new wrinkles updated… …
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STUDENTFILMMAKERS: What is 3D Audio, and how is it different than Surround Sound? David Bowles: 3D audio captures the Z axis – height – in addition to width (L-R) and depth (Ls-Rs) layers. Because of our ears, heads and bodies, our ability to localise sound direction is fuzzy behind and directly overhead. My challenge is… …
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STUDENTFILMMAKERS: Can you tell us about the development and pre-production stages? Rodrigo Chapoy: The pre-production stages were really rough and messy. “Bear With Me” was born out of the need to tell a story that would be personal, and that I cared for. I’ve been in a long-distance relationship for the time I studied at… …
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By Bart Weiss Because of the current COVID-19 situation, shooting video is much more difficult than it has ever been. One way to move forward with creative digital storytelling is moving to the world of podcasting. Here are some tips and pointers. There are several types of podcasts. For those of you interested in dramatic… …
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By Kristen Baum There’s this joke in New York City in which someone asks a local, “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?” only to be met with the answer, “Practice.” Many young composers ask a similar question: “How do I get to Hollywood?” Aspiring film composers want to know how to find film composing… …
