“But from that point, it was just a matter of, okay, I’ve got to put all this kind of stuff together now. And now that there isn’t a moving image that I’m necessarily locked into, I wield more power in regards to molding the action, so I could decide how a scene breaks down. And […]
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The Soul of Sound – Why Film Still Needs Human Creativity: A Conversation with Benjamin Kapit – Part 2
The Soul of Sound – Why Film Still Needs Human Creativity: A Conversation with Benjamin Kapit – Part 2 “There’s a quote from a famously terrible person, Thomas Jefferson, who said – I don’t particularly like him or a lot of the things he did, but I do agree with this, I do agree with […]
The Power of Sound Design in Film: A Conversation with Benjamin Kapit – Part 1
The Power of Sound Design in Film: A Conversation with Benjamin Kapit “If you have a screen that goes very bright white or if you have a screen that goes very dark, people can deal. Their eyes will adjust, or they’ll just accept that. But if you have bad sound, people will leave. They’ll turn […]
A Musical Journey From Emotion to Production: A Conversation with Nismah Osman – Part 1
A Musical Journey From Emotion to Production with Nismah Osman “I think people just kind of were, like, ‘Oh, hi,’ you know. They were supportive, they were nice, and, you know, they could tell I was a kid who had no idea what I was doing but was obviously passionate about music. I do […]
The Power of Healing Through Music: A Conversation with Jonathan Taylor – Part 2
The Power of Healing Through Music: A Conversation with Jonathan Taylor – Part 2 “The piano is the same way. The piano has a hammer that goes like that on the string. The harpsichord has a pintrip that is plucked, all right? What do you do on the guitar? You actually pluck the string or […]
The Sound of Movies – Why Hollywood’s Becoming Harder to Hear
When was the last time you turned on the subtitles while watching a movie? Does it ever seem like the music and sound effects, especially the explosions, are as loud as ever, but the dialogue’s barely above a whisper? Does it seem like older movies, movies like Jaws and Star Wars, were easier to understand? […]