Karen Baker Landers knows that many people conceive of sound design and editing as technical—not creative—parts of the filmmaking process. But at its core, she argues, sound is about storytelling and ...

We call filmmakers “visionary” when they bring wondrous, strange or frightening worlds to life. But vision is just half the equation. To be truly immersive and transporting, a film or television show ...

Martin Lopez is a former San Diego resident who now works as a sound editor and designer in LA. He clarifies what the difference is between the Oscar categories of Sound Mixing and Sound Editing ...

The Oscar winner explains how he and his crew captured 113 different speakers in the film and his long working relationship ...

From dialogue to music, the sounds you hear in movies are multilayered. More often than not, these sounds are brought together in postproduction to create an immersive aural experience that requires a ...

Minkler likens his job to an orchestra conductor, only his notes are created from gunshots and battleships. Consider This: Conversations highlight film’s award-worthy productions through panel ...

Kay Rose, the first woman to win an Academy Award for sound editing -- for her work on the 1984 film “The River” -- has died. She was 80. Rose died Wednesday in Burbank of multiple organ system ...

Dread Central: You have two films currently screening at the Fantasia Film Festival. 12 Hour Shift and You Cannot Kill David Arquette. Sound-wise, the two films seem very different. Can you talk about ...

Mexican supervising sound editor Martín Hernández, who was Oscar-nominated for Best Sound Editing for Birdman and The Revenant in 2014 and 2015 respectively, says the category is wide open this year ...

A spoon hypnotically circling a saucer. A snap(shot) back to reality. The atmospheric, crushing silence of the sunken place. If you’re hearing those sounds in your ...