Sound Effect Sorcery: Fight Club
This featurette video from FilmRadar (and write up from FilmSchoolRejects) so very beautifully demonstrates how Fincher took the cinematic world by storm with an incredibly biting and brutal movie called…
This featurette video from FilmRadar (and write up from FilmSchoolRejects) so very beautifully demonstrates how Fincher took the cinematic world by storm with an incredibly biting and brutal movie called…
We spent 4 years of our lives in film school, and we learned a lot about telling stories. But the biggest thing film school never told us was the real…
If you ask many editors, they'll tell you they can "do the audio mix for your independent project." If you've spent any time watching the Pro Member Education you know…
In this article I'm going to cover the specifics around what independent filmmakers need to know about the itemized portions of the cost of sound post. I'm also covering this…
Folks say that sight is our most precious sense as human beings. While that may be true in every day life, I'd argue that unless you're making silent films, the…
At the top of the food chain of dynamics processing is the multiband compressor. Really many compressors mashed into one, these giants of processing power can suavely and smoothly contour…
As I've said before, compression is the "audio combustion" in a mix. Without compression, it's quite difficult to create contour of a track or series of tracks. Also, each compressor…
Limiters are what make great mixes sound loud without distortion, take the unruly crack out of gun shots and punches and are the blade of the transient haircut in a…
Sometimes we are forced to use sounds which are too pristine to work in our projects. Having atypical sound for a period film takes the audience out of the story…
Mixing in stereo is far more difficult than mixing in surround in many ways. Mixing for the internet is more difficult yet. In this video clip, I give you the…