What filmmakers need to know about creating great audio for your films.
Jan 21st, 2009 by Peter D. Marshall
This article is from MovieMaker.
“Sound is one aspect of the film craft which, because of the medium’s overwhelming visual bias, is often undernourished—even by experienced moviemakers. Master provocateur Alfred Hitchcock was fond of saying that we should be able to turn the sound down on a good movie and still be able to follow the plot. Yet a motion picture sound mixer, like the director of photography, is the head of a department whose efforts are often inseparable from the overall success or failure of the final release. You only need to turn the volume back up on any of Hitch’s movies to know that the implacable director had his ear finely tuned to the power of sound.” Continue reading here.
