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KUNG FU PANDA

Courtesy of filmsounddaily a couple of articles on Kung Fu Panda. Even in this streamed example is does sound great !

filmsound daily: KUNG FU PANDA pt.2

Some nice ideas for WHOOSHES (+ don't forget this)
And discusion of working closely with the music in terms of negotiating separate frequency bands to avoid 'sonic mud'.

Ben Burtt

Here's an interview with one of the Godfathers of Sound Design, Ben Burtt.
Filmsound daily: INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL pt.2

Lots of interviews here courtesy of Sven E Carlsson of filmsound.org fame

Another video doc on the Crystal skull found courtesy of UnidentifiedSoundObject

More from Ben Burtt - This time on Wall.E. also discussions in this Studio360 interview and this San Francisco Chronicle article.

You can see him manipulating a graphics tablet in one of his video interviews. I believe this is probably the Kyma system. he talks a little about how its set up in this interview - moviesonline.

Links to more articles via 'Create digital music'

Nice slightly related Creature sound deisgn article by Darren Blondin here.

Wall-E

'Reality' in documentary sound

A few articles recently have got me thinking about the public perception of sound as representing 'reality' - particularly in documentary and news context. The big hoo-har at UK BBC and ITV stations in recent months about 'fake' competition results and phone-in scandals has led to a bit of a media witch hunt to find example examples of 'fakeness'. Here's one about sound being dubbed onto a news broadcast - ironically probably originally intended to make the situation represented more 'real'. I read an article some time ago about a filmaker choosing to leave in clipped distortions of explosions in a film because it also made it seem more 'real' as we have become used to that sound through war reporting bulletins.

There seems to be at least some awareness that the notion that 'the camera never lies' is deeply flawed but not as much about the manipulation of audio. The fact that our hearing (or rather listening) mechanisms give us a completely subjective experience of the world and that a recorded soundtrack must be one persons interpretation of this is not as much discussed but has great implications for the choices a 'reality' (news / documentary) film maker must make.

Somebody should write an interesting article about this sometime :)

(There's some nice discussion of using documentary sources for the soundtrack of 'The Kite Runner' here.)

Film : No country for old men

Saw the Coen Brothers new film 'No country for old men' yesterday . Like their other films it's a great example of a film designed with sound in mind and consequently worthy of study (as well a being an excellent film of course !). I was struck by the way the film engaged the audience with the act of active listening again and again, making us focus in on the smallest sounds before hitting us with a shocking dynamic contrast. Best supporting actor role should almost go to the wind in this film, used very evocatively at a number of key points throughout.

There's some discussion from filmsounddaily here.
Some more here.