![]() So what kind of sound best serves a movie? Loud or soft? “Ultimately the job is to tell the story of the movie through the sound work.” “We take all the sound elements and blend them, according to the wishes of the director,” Tay said. The mixers are the cooks: the timing of how each dish is being cooked and how the flavours blend with this and that.”Īdded Elliott: “A mixer may decide not to use the ‘green pepper.’ They may decide that lack of sound or an absence of sound is the thing that best serves the movie.”Īnd serving the movie - while also following the director’s orders - is what sound design is all about. Editors prepare all the ingredients: they choose which vegetables and how the ingredients are prepared. Tay used a food preparation analogy to amplify the answer: The former involves the selection of different sounds the latter how those sounds are used. ![]() ![]() I also asked them to comment on the opening scenes for two leading Oscar nominees, The King’s Speech and The Social Network (see sidebar).Įlliott and Tay began by explaining the difference between sound editing and sound mixing. facility to get the lowdown on golden sound. Working together and separately, they have decades of experience massaging movie sound, everything from comedies ( Gnomeo & Juliet, Men With Brooms) to horror films (the Saw franchise). It’s enough to make you want to drive a sharpened pencil into your eardrums.īut listen up, because help is here from Keith Elliott, 50, and Andrew Tay, 42, top sound re-recording mixers for Deluxe Toronto, one of the world’s premier post-production houses for film of all kinds. ![]() ![]() But who apart from a bat-eared boffin can say what constitutes prize-winning sound, especially when you subdivide it between editing and mixing? The two Oscar categories are a crapshoot for most punters. Most people can spot a great visual effect. But then you can lose the office stash to the guy in the next veal pen, who doesn’t follow movies much but really loved the Kraken attack in Pirates of the Caribbean 2 (which won both sound awards in 2007). You can see all the movies, follow all the pundits and read all the tea leaves. It’s the groans from someone who just lost the office Oscar pool because of two diabolical categories: Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing. The loudest noise on Academy Awards night isn’t the cheering for a Best Picture winner. ![]()
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