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- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) How many different sounds can you identify in this scene? A more than deserved win for Gregg Rudloff, Chris Jenkins, and Ben Osmo.
- Dunkirk (2017) Dunkirk - Sound Mixing. Because war movies usually demand multiple sounds firing at the same time, the quality of the mixing is generally more noticed.
- Inception (2010) Inception - Oscar winner for Best Sound Mixing. The layered sounds of Inception are almost as complicated as the layered dream world in the film.
- The Matrix (1999) The Matrix - Bullet Dodge Sound Mixing. Sound team, John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David E. Campbell, and David Lee were the brains behind some of the best “bullet sounds” to ever hit Hollywood.
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
- The Dark Knight
- Inception
- Gravity
- Wall-E
- Saving Private Ryan
- Apocalypse Now
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- The Lord of The Rings: Return of The King
- Jurassic Park
You would be hard-pressed to find someone who can’t immediately hear the electric, laser-like zoom of a lightsaber being drawn when you mention Star Wars. This franchise invented a plethora of unique sounds to immerse viewers in the world of a galaxy far, far away.
When your main character has bat-like hearing, and 80% of your film takes place at night, sound effects becomes a crucial element in your storytelling process. Thankfully, Christopher Nolan and the team that created The Dark Knight leaned into the details and built a film that you hear more than you see.
What do dreams sound like? That's the question that Christopher Nolan and his sound design team set out to answer, and quite successfully. Inception is filled with sounds that are both real and surreal and help immerse the viewer in the bizarre dreamscape that its characters must escape from.
Sometimes, the best sound design includes the selective absence of it. Gravity is a masterclass in restraint, with director Alfonso Cuaron attempting to recreate the vacuum of space, where no sound can be heard unless there is air to carry it. Every sound you hear in Gravity is placed there for a reason, and the final result makes the audience feel...
How do you tell a story when your main characters can’t speak? In the case of Wall-E, quite masterfully. Every beep, squeak, and creak in Wall-E helps paint an emotional picture of a lonely little robot searching for some beauty in a world gone wrong, proving that when you have great sound, you don’t always need words.
War is ugly, frightening, and quite often loud. Saving Private Ryan immerses viewers in the chaotic world of World War II, from the barrage of Normandy to quiet walks through the French countryside as its characters go behind enemy lines to recover their lost serviceman.
Apocalypse Now has long been heralded as a golden example of how to use sound to tell a story. From its opening sequence of a ceiling fan reverberating like a helicopter propeller to surreal soundscapes meant to replicate a psychedelic episode, Apocalypse Now leans heavily on sound to help tell the story of what war does to someone's mind.
The heavy metal apocalypse of Mad Max: Fury Road is a symphony of sound from start to finish. From its exhilarating soundtrack to the roar of battle cars, Mad Max: Fury Road is a non-stop feast for the eyes and the ears.
When you’re creating a fantasy world, you are confronted with both the challenge and blessing of designing a whole landscape that doesn’t exist in our world. That includes what a fantasy world might sound like, from the music to the creatures that inhabit it. Peter Jackson and his sound team crafted a soundscape for this franchise that includes eve...
In theaters across the world, the rumbling roar of an escaped T-Rex rattled audiences to their core. Jurassic Park is still heralded as one of the most magical soundscapes ever designed by Steven Spielberg and his sound team. While research has suggested that most dinosaurs didn’t actually sound like the ones in Jurassic Park, the chilling bark of ...
Dec 6, 2015 · Whether we find the sound design experiment of “The Third Generation” successful, it is worthy to mention as one of the bravest and weirdest designs ever created. It was the first sound work by Hartmut Eichgrün, who would work later on Wim Wenders’ classic “Wings of Desire”, a film that applies some of the techniques seen in this film.
A list of 92 films compiled on Letterboxd, including The Zone of Interest (2023), Top Gun: Maverick (2022), Dune (2021), Sound of Metal (2019) and 1917 (2019). About this list: Every movie awarded the Best Sound Oscar in the history of the Academy Awards, including: • 1929/30–1957: Best Sound Recording • 1958–2002: Best Sound • 2003–2019: Best Sound Mixing • 2020–present: Best ...
- A Quiet Place's Hearing Impairment. John Krasinski's breakout horror series A Quiet Place has been winning fan adoration and accolades for a few years now, particularly due to its use of sound - and lack thereof - as an important element.
- Star Wars' Entire Sound Library. Famed sound designer Ben Burtt had his work cut out for him when he was tasked with creating many of the sound effects for George Lucas's original Star Wars film in 1977.
- Forbidden Planet's Non-Musical Soundtrack. 1956's Forbidden Planet was definitely way ahead of its time. It was an attempt to move away from the shallow scripts known to the time period, and closer to a more intelligent and mature story.
- Mad Max: Fury Road's Cacophony Of Sound. While previous entries in the Mad Max franchise were all visual and sonic treats, the fourth film was the one that completely changed the game.
May 7, 2019 · 1 of 24. MAKING-WAVES-sound-designer-Walter-Murch.-Courtesy-of-Aint-Heard-Nothin-Yet-Corp. May 07, 2019, 5:00pm. The new documentary “Making Waves” explores the art of movie sound design. Here ...
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The best sound mixing in film. From the gentle musical upswell accompanying a gladiator’s death scene to the unsettling polytonality in a simulated realm, these soundtracks showcase some of the best sound in movies. “Gladiator” (2000): Sixty-five people worked in the sound department for Ridley Scott’s Oscar-winning “Gladiator.”.
