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I feel like we’ve done a pretty decent job of educating some of our readership on the difference between Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing over the last five years here at In Contention. It struck me that we haven’t really covered it in a focused way this season, and the Oscar Guide seems […]
OSCAR GUIDE: Best Sound Mixing
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:59 am · February 14th, 2011
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TECH SUPPORT: Final analysis, part one
Posted by gerardkennedy · 8:57 am · January 20th, 2011
It seems hard to believe that it’s been more than six months since I wrote this year’s introductory Tech Support column ( a dissection of the art direction race). Much has changed since then, naturally, as we are less than a week away from the big day when we find out the nominees for the […]
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TECH SUPPORT: Best Sound Mixing — Volume II
Posted by gerardkennedy · 10:40 am · November 26th, 2010
Sound mixing has a lot in common with sound editing, but the distinctions are still critical. While both clearly relate to what we hear in the theater, sound editing specifically relates to the creation of artificial sounds (“sound effects”) while sound mixing brings everything together — from effects to music to dialogue (recorded on set […]
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TECH SUPPORT: Best Sound Mixing — Volume I
Posted by gerardkennedy · 3:44 pm · September 2nd, 2010
Last week, while discussing the sound editing category, I explained the difference between that art form and sound mixing. The Oscar for the latter is shared between two (or more) persons who construct the soundtrack of a movie. The re-recording mixers bring together everything – dialogue, sound effects, music – into what we hear in […]
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On the sound of ‘Inception’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:02 pm · July 20th, 2010
I totally meant to post this over the weekend as it’s been live since Saturday. Alas, I forgot. I’ve been high on the guys at SoundWorks Collection since I stumbled across their work last year. As you know, we’ve always been concerned with shining a proper spotlight on below-the-line efforts in filmmaking. SoundWorks Collection focuses […]
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So, is ‘Inception’ a go for Oscar?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:08 pm · July 5th, 2010
Now that the review embargo walls have crashed on “Inception” (though most of what’s out there is web-based media as we’ll wait a while for print reactions), I guess it’s fair to dive into the awards implications of the film. I preferred to stay away from that kind of talk in my review. The first […]
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