Jerry Bruckheimer likes ‘em big and loud. Movies, that is, and National Treasure: Book of Secrets is expected to meet expectations in terms of dB and SPL. But within that cacophonous jungle of sound is plenty of room for nuance, says George Watters II, supervising sound editor at Buena Vista Studios, where the film was edited.
There's a reason why David Letterman is the only network talk-show host with a best-selling music-compilation CD out. Harvey Goldberg, who has mixed the music for the show exclusively for the last five years, thinks he knows why.... »
Oscar-winning re-recording mixer Michael Minkler, who worked on Chicago, Rent and A Chorus Line, says getting the music into the movie was a challenge this time.... »
There's nothing unusual about the audio workflow between sound guys Eric Lalicata and Ken Skoglund—except that they're working on two different continents.... »
An out-of-sight, out-of-mind approach to location audio can work for producers who have an experienced mixer on board. But current budget realities and new audio technology mean producers who just worry about visuals are missing half the story.... »
With the debut of Over There, the new military drama from executive producer Stephen Bochco, Hollywood-based war scenes will co-exist for the first time with the images shot by embedded photojournalists. To... »
It’s one thing to get up to speed on a typical feature film, but production sound mixer Drew Kunin had to ramp up in a hurry working on the Robert Altman -directed musical Prairie Home Companion, a project... »
Maitland is doing more than recording the film’s sound— he’s making history: this is the first major Hollywood production to rely on software to capture its location audio. The fact that it’s a musical... »
