Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards

February 21, 2019, 06:45 AM

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Honoring outstanding achievements in sound editing, the 66th Annual Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Awards took place on Sunday, February 17th at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles with over a thousand in attendance. Golden Reels were handed out in 23 categories encompassing feature films, long-form and short-form television, animation, documentaries, games, special venue […] The post Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards appeared first on Below the Line.

Composer Justin Hurwitz on First Man and Theremins

February 21, 2019, 06:45 AM

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Sound does not travel in the void of space, and yet something about going out of this world just seems to inspire film composers to bring their A-game. From John Williams’ Star Wars themes to Hans Zimmer dialing up his dramatic tendencies to 11 for Interstellar, the final frontier has inspired some of the greatest and grandest film scores of all time.

A Quite Place Sound Designers & This Years Oscars

February 21, 2019, 06:45 AM

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hen we think of Academy Award-winning sound design, 2017’s bombastic Dunkirk score by Hanz Zimmer or 2016’s haunting Arrival soundtrack (Jóhann Jóhannsson) come to mind, but the 2019 Oscars may surprise us by rewarding a compelling new trend in cinematic sound: the absence of sound itself.

2019 Oscar Editing Category Insights

February 20, 2019, 10:38 AM

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Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody “is the classic narrative arc of alienated artist and inflated ego, who is then humbled and who finally brings the band back together for triumphal come back,” the film’s editor John Ottman, ACE told IBC365.

Singer And Cruise Reduced Valkyrie Editor To Tears

February 20, 2019, 10:38 AM

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Watching movies can certainly be an emotional experience, but so can making them. When people pour their heart and soul into their job it can be emotionally taxing. Sometimes, however, your co-workers just drive you to break down. That's apparently what happened to John Ottman, the editor on the Tom Cruise World War II drama Valkyrie. Apparently, the star would come in and work with Ottman in the editing room, then writer Christopher McQuarrie would come and make changes to what Cruise had done,...

When someone tells me to redo something that took

February 20, 2019, 10:37 AM

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r/VintageCGI my new favorite Subreddit

February 20, 2019, 06:58 AM

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r/vintageCGI is my new favorite subreddit. Embedded above is a collection of the rendered scenes from 1983 laserdisc game Star Rider, reputed to have cost Williams $50m in development, production and marketing costs. Below, Ronald Peterson's 1988 image demonstrating a ray-tracing package.

MPSE presents 66th Annual Golden Reel Awards

February 19, 2019, 01:43 PM

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HOLLYWOOD — The Motion Picture Sound Editors  (mpse.org) presented their 66th MPSE Annual Golden Reel Awards at a black-tie ceremony at the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles on February 17th. Golden Reel Awards recognizing outstanding achievement in sound editing were presented in 23 categories encompassing feature films, long-form and short-form television, animation, documentaries, games, special venue and other media.

Editors asking for a cue like

February 19, 2019, 01:42 PM

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The Work of ILM on Solo

February 19, 2019, 07:35 AM

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Come discover the work of Industrial Light & Magic on SOLO – A STAR WARS STORY explain by VFX Supervisor Julian Foddy in this really cool video by BBC Click...