Dolby - Lab Notes: For the second year, the Dolby Institute and the SoundWorks Collection have collaborated to produce a series of podcast conversations with the artists nominated for Academy Awards for Best Achievement in Sound Editing and Best Achievement in Sound Mixing.
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I think it’s amazing that the Dolby Institute and SoundWorks Collection have teamed up for a podcast about sound mixing and sound editing. Hopefully people who were previously not interested in sound will find these podcast and start to be more aware of how sound influences them when they watch movies. It’s also great that the article explains the difference between sound mixing and editing. In regards to the portion of the article on the movie Arrival, I think that the writer does a good job of highlighting the problems that the sound mixers and editors encountered. However, I wish that Kiser went into more detail about what the process to solve these problems was like. What sorts of natural sounds did they use and how did they determine those sounds as opposed to others? Overall, I wish that the article went more into depth about the different movies but I understand that this article is just meant to summarize and encourage people to listen to the podcast.
I love the appreciation of sound! Just from my personal experience it seems that sound is much more appreciated in film than it is in theatre, which is interesting to me. I am curious as to why it is not equally appreciated. That being said, I am glad some great films are being appreciated in this article. I myself would have added in Hidden Figures, because I felt it had a brilliant score, but I can see why it would not qualify as “sound” because it was mostly a soundtrack produced by Pharrell. I thought I would share a little insight to my experience with this article. I just so happend to be listening “La La Land” as I opened the article and found it featured. I agree completely. The film itself has such a heavy emphasis on music as an important aspect to one of the characters, so I loved how chrisp and unique the various instruments in the film sounded. I am not the most highly educated sound editor, but to my ears it was beautifully done and placed in all the right places. I am surprised about the various environments that the film was shot on, and impressed by the high quality despite being featured on a stage. The sound really enhanced the film for me.
I personally do not think that sound in entertainment gets enough attention. One of my favorite types of videos to watch are the ones that take out all the sound effects in movies. Once this done, the audience is left with a series of awkward human sounds and long periods of more awkward silence. And while I am a huge fan of silence, I am not a huge fan of silence for a two hour long period. While I have not seen too many movies lately, I have heard the music from them and it is absolutely beautiful. I also think it is important to note the fact that I still listen to movie soundtracks if I have not seen the movie. Just listening to music can fill my head with so many different images and ideas that I am entertained solely off sound components. Sound design is a very difficult, yet beautiful, thing to create well. There have been so many times where I am watching some form of entertainment and the sound will take me straight out of the moment. The work and talent that sound designers have is something that I think should be more celebrated and appreciated, since without them the beautiful things we see would be incomplete.
It's great to finally see the sound department getting the recognition it deserves. Although this article was film centric, it still made me think of sound in a theatrical context. It's honestly such a shame that the hard work that goes into the engineering and design goes basically unnoticed by the theatre world. Sound is more than simply being able to hear the actors speaking. The sound is crucial to the reality escaping, immersive quality that theatre has. Just having done the box project in Basic Design where there was a sound design element has made it apparent to me that even in a 30 second sound clip there still lies much intensity to concentration and detail, one that I couldn't imagine having to do for a two hour play or musical. I would like to have known more details about the designs for the movies mentioned in this article, and what elements those sound designs actually consisted in them and the work that went into producing the design itself. Hopefully, we as an industry can look and work forward to appreciating the art in sound design the way it deserves.
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