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Film sound guides and resources:
Michael Cullen shares his insights on film sound creation in these 12 tutorial videos:
David Farmer gets you tips, tricks and techniques learned from decades in audio post production:
Supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer Brandon Proctor shares stories & insights from his 20+ years in the business:
Composer and sound designer Tom Disher and re-recording mixer Paul Zahnley share their tips, tricks & insights from many years of doing sound for independent films:
Experienced Foley artist Heikki Kossi shares insights and stories from doing Foley sound on 100s of films:
Herb Ferrette shares insights from over 35 years in the media industry:
Check out this great tutorial on setting up Pro Tools templates for post production:
Jeremy Peirson shares stories, approaches, and lessons learned from a life in sound – with a particular focus on field recording:
Award-winning composers Pinar Toprak, Nainita Desai, and Jonathan Snipes share insights on how to succeed as a film composer:
Great insights on how to make it in sound for film & trailers, with insights from Nia Hansen, Peter Albrechtsen, & Karél Psota:
Hear how to succeed in sound, from some of the brightest minds – and sharpest ears – in the industry:
Melissa Pons shares insights and thoughts – from herself and others in the community – on living as a freelancer in the sound industry:
Mandell Winter is a two-time Emmy nominated Supervising Sound Editor who has worked on many films and television series. And in this interview with Doug Siebum, he sheds some light on what the Supervising Sound Editor role involves:
Here’s Academy award-winning sound designer Randy Thom’s insightful plea for sound to be taken as seriously as visuals in film storytelling:
Randy Thom shares his thoughts on why sound matters:
Jon Lefkovitz has released an interesting, feature-length documentary with legendary film editor and sound designer Walter Murch. You can watch the full documentary here:
Here’s why (and how) Tormod Ringnes applies his 4-step approach to all sound design projects, no matter the size of the production:
Supervising Sound Editor Jacob Bloomfield-Misrach shares insights, tips and lessons learned from overseeing 100+ sound projects per year:
Doug Siebum shares his story and experiences doing free work in sound – and whether you should do that in the first place:
Check out this great panel talk from The Rough Cut, hosted by Matt Feury and featuring Ai-Ling Lee, Will Files & Craig Henighan talking about the fundamentals of film sound:
Want to get Foley editing right? Sound supervisor Yuri Pridachin from Foley First shares his essential tips, insights and lessons learned in this in-depth guide:
Film sound veteran Tim Nielsen shares insight on supervising a film:
William McGuigan shares insights on starting and running his own boutique audio post house:
Find out how animal Foley is done – with veteran Foley artist Marko Costanzo:
A great Mashable video featuring Foley artist Marko Costanzo, on the art and craft of Foley
Check out this excellent video from American Lifestyle on the Foley team at Skywalker Sound, featuring Foley artists John Roesch and Shelley Roden, and mixer Scott Curtis:
Sound designer Ugo Derouard demonstrates five steps of audio post production – and how they affect a given scene:
Walter Murch explains sound mixing and sound editing – with examples from his own work:
Here’s how the team did it, as told by supervising sound editor/sound designer/re-recording mixer Julian Slater, and sound effects recordist Watson Wu:
Supervising sound editor Odin Benitez, music editor Fernand Bos, and dialogue/music mixer David E. Fluhr discuss their approach to weaving sound design, songs, and score into a fluid, immersive soundscape:
Here, they discuss their approach to sound design on Alien: Covenant, from building on original Alien sound concepts to creating new sounds for the Neomorph, the Covenant ship, the radio transmissions from the Prometheus, and more.
Get the full story on how the film’s rich, dense, and immersive soundscape was created, in this A Sound Effect interview with Oscar-winning supervising sound editor Richard King:
Wayne Pashley takes you behind the scenes on the sound and shares details about how he and his team brought the animated Batman toys to life through sound:
We talk with sound supervisor Oliver Tarney about how the visuals impacted his approach to the sound and how he created the film’s immersive, authentic WWI sound.
Critics describe Arrival as ‘a must-see experience for fans of thinking person’s sci-fi’ – and in this interview with the Arrival sound team, you’ll discover why the sound for the film is definitely something else too:
In this in-depth A Sound Effect interview, supervising sound editors Peter Brown and Joe Dzuban take you behind the scenes on their sound work for the film
Warner Bros. Sound’s Oscar-winning Supervising Sound Editor Alan Robert Murray shares details on how he and the sound team brought Gotham City to life with custom recordings and era-appropriate effects, and how they subtly blended the sound and score to create a visceral, cruel, and crazy world.
Supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer Gene Park tells the story on how sound was used to help achieve such a high level of emotional discomfort and disorientation:
Supervising sound editors Coya Elliott and Ren Klyce talk about designing sounds to fit the score, creating the voices of the ‘lost souls,’ recording voices for the unborn souls, and much more!
It’s time for a horror special, and to get you in that spooky mood, here are 11 A Sound Effect stories behind the sound for some of the scariest horror movies and series out there:
How the fast, precise, and brutal sound for John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum was made, as told by Supervising Sound Editor Mark Stoeckinger:
In this very in-depth A Sound Effect interview, supervising sound editors Ai-Ling Lee and Milly Iatrou talk about how they used authentic NASA gear to make those flight experiences sound as real as possible
Sound and silence are key elements in A Quiet Place, and for sound designers Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl it was an incredibly thrilling – and challenging – project to work on. Here’s how they created the crucial sound of A Quiet Place:
Foley supervisor/artist Heikki Kossi talks about how Foley played a key role in keeping the audience close to McBride, helping to relay his physical and mental experience.
Sound supervisor/sound designer Sergio Diaz and sound supervisor/re-recording mixer Zach Seivers talk about their cinema vérité approach to the sound.
Randy Thom & Al Nelson dive into the creative details of creating sounds for new dragons, such as the Light Fury and the Death Grippers, and how they created new, more emotive sounds for Toothless.
Supervising sound editor Shannon Mills has worked on a number of Marvel movies, and in this exclusive A Sound Effect interview, he gives you the in-depth story about that Avengers: Endgame sound
In this exclusive interview, Wylie Stateman talks about collaborating with Tarantino, his creative process of ‘rapid prototyping’, the interplay of music and sound design, and a lot more.
Go behind the sound of Harley Quinn’s colorful, manic, psychotic world in ‘Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey’:
Shannon Mills & Nia Hansen take you behind the sound for Disney’s mesmerizing animated adventure:
Oscar-winning supervising sound editors Karen Baker Landers & Per Hallberg share the intriguing story behind the sound for Ghost In The Shell:
Supervising sound editors Addison Teague and Katy Wood, and sound designer David Farmer take you behind the sound for Ant-Man and the Wasp:
Disney’s Moana (also known as ‘Vaiana’ in Europe) is a huge hit at the box office, and in this in-depth A Sound Effect interview, award-winning supervising sound editor Tim Nielsen shares the story on how the computer-generated world of Moana was brought to life with sound.
Director Bong Joon Ho’s go-to for sound supervision and mixing, Ralph Tae-Young Choi, talks about his approach to designing the contrasting worlds of the wealthy Park family and the working-class Kim family who latches onto them.
Oscar-winning Supervising Sound Editor Richard King — at Warner Bros. Sound — talks about his approach to designing inverted sounds for director Christopher Nolan’s film Tenet.
Netflix just released this interesting video on Army of the Dead, with Zack Snyder sharing his thoughts and insights on music and sound design for film. We’ve added shortcuts below so you can jump straight to the music and sound design segments of the video:
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AUDIO JOBS
– find audio jobs around the world:
We’ve shared 1000s of audio jobs on Soundlister, and we continue to share openings each week. The site also gives you a search tool to help you explore past opportunities + a way to see all posts tagged with a specific job title – effectively allowing you to browse by title.
AUDIO PODCASTS
– find great podcasts about sound
The newly-formed Audio Podcast Alliance features a carefully-chosen selection of the absolute best podcasts about sound out there. Discover the cream of the crop of what the community has to offer when it comes to audio-related podcasts below:
AUDIO PROFESSIONALS
– find talented audio professionals from around the world for your projects:
If you’re looking for film sound talent, Soundlister features 1000s of audio professionals from all over the world – including everything from sound designers, re-recording mixers, composers, recordists, to sound editors, voice actors, Foley artists and more:
FILM SOUND BOOKS
– find great books about sound for film:
There are lots of great books about film sound out there – here are a few examples:
• Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures: A Guide to the Invisible Art – by John Purcell (recommended by Ryan Cota – get the book here)
• Film Sound: Theory and Practice – by Elisabeth Weis (recommended by Mark Kilborn – get the book here)
• Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History – by James Buhler, David Neumeyer, & Rob Deemer (recommended by Javier Quesada – get the book here)
• Location Audio Simplified – by Dean Miles (recommended by Julien Matthey – get the book here)
• Sound-On-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound – by Vincent Anthony LoBrutto (recommended by Mark Kilborn – get the book here)
• The Foley Grail – The art of performing sound for film, games and animation – by Vanessa Theme Ament (recommended by Julien Matthey – get the book here)
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FILM SOUND ON SOCIAL MEDIA
– find groups and conversations on film sound and audio post production:
SHOWCASE YOUR AUDIO WORK
– showcase your skills and be discovered by those who need them, completely free:
As an audio professional, Soundlister lets you showcase your skills and be discovered by those who need them. It offers an easy way to present your showreel, highlight your favorite projects and let visitors know where to find you on social media:
THE AUDIO EVENTS CALENDAR
– find audio-related events around the world – and online:
Looking to find audio-related events such as audio industry conferences, community meetups, special events, Q&As, online courses and more? Check out the Audio Events Calendar, where we’ve shared more than 800+ events since its launch.
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