Colossal published an article this week featuring the art of a guy who has bought large advertising billboards to “unvertise”. I like it. Check it out: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/07/brian-kanes-unvertisement-billboards/?mc_cid=84ef55c497&mc_eid=b70530c66d
A couple of months ago there was an ABC Radio National Big Ideas program that presented a talk by Kim Williams on the state of arts in Australia. Williams is a media executive, musician and entrepreneur who has managed large organisations including Musica Viva, FoxTel, the Australian Film Commission and more. In the talk, which … Read more Kim Williams on Science and the Arts
A little while back SoundWorks Collection posted up a few classic videos from THX including a demo reel featuring bits from some classic Lucasfilm movies, a short documentary of the production of the soundtrack, and a video about the origin of THX. Check them out at: http://soundworkscollection.com/news/check-out-three-retro-thx-videos-thx-wow-the-thx-story-thx-soundtrack
Last year Mike Thornton wrote a great series of posts on the Pro Tools Expert website outlining the Audio Post workflow, right from the assistant editor syncing files for the video editor. It is a great series, and I think it is great that he started at the Assistant Editor prepping sessions. You can check … Read more Audio Post Production Workflows Using Pro Tools
When undertaking audio post-production projects, or really any large audio production work, it is vital to get organised. This is especially so if working with others in a team, as opposed to working on your own. Creating spotting logs, cue sheets and visual maps are all great tools for sound design planning, and a lot … Read more Audio Post Planning in Pro Tools
I found it interesting that Steve Albini was the keynote speaker at the Face the Music Conference in Melbourne late last year. Albini is best known for engineering a tonne of “records” for bands including The Pixies, Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins, but also for his own bands Big Black, Rapeman and Shellac. Many years ago … Read more Steve Albini: the internet has solved music’s problem
A few years back, Brent Heber, Australian Audio Post guy and Pro Tools expert/advocate, put together a short 20 minute video discussing the common mistakes made by fresh filmmakers with regards to sound. He starts by touching on the basics like choosing locations and microphones, before moving on to considerations for sync, timecode, and workflow. People new to filmmaking … Read more Film sound: common mistakes
I got along to see Mad Max: Fury Road at the cinema yesterday. It was pretty over the top in many ways, but that is to be expected so it was a fun ride. There would have been many great challenges for the crew working on this movie, not least for the production sound team. … Read more Production Sound challenges for Mad Max: Fury Road
Designing Sound have posted up a cool interview with sound designer Chris Scarabosio from Skywalker Sound about comedy sound design. Check it out at: http://designingsound.org/2015/05/comedy-its-an-interesting-thing-to-try-and-nail-down-interview-with-chris-scarabosio/
FabFilter have put together a really good video tutorial on linear phase vs minimum phase or regular EQ. It shows a clear example of the pre-ringing effect from linear phase EQs and some interesting examples using parallel EQ processing: http://www.fabfilter.com/video/eq-linear-phase-vs-minimum-phase