The Sound Wagon

 Last night at The 88th Academy Awards, Mark Mangini and David White won the Oscar for Best Sound Editing for their amazing work on Mad Max: Fury Road . To top it all, Gregg Rudloff, Chris Jenkins, and Ben Osmo won the Oscar for Best Sound Mixing for said film. What makes the sounds of Mad Max stand out from competition? I believe that it's fair to say it's the dedication to personify every sound that we hear throughout the entire movie; to make a fictitious atmosphere sound believable. Even if it was the smallest detail, the Sound Editors had one goal, and it was for the audience, as unrealistically as it looked, to be affected and to believe that what they heard truly happened in real time. The entire movie is dominated by intense vehicle sounds and war machines. There were a lot of visuals that needed to be accompanied by powerful sounds. Sound Editor and Designer Mark Mangini recently talked to The Frame about how he had some pretty interesting ideas whi...

Not many people realize how important is the audio postproduction process for any visual media. As a matter of fact, sound is 50% of a film. Without it, you probably wouldn't be as emotionally driven to it as you are when you're watching it; sound is vital to the storytelling telling process in filmmaking. Although talkies emerged in the early/mid 1900s, movies were never truly silent. Music was the primary key when it came to adding emotion to a scene – it still is. That being said, filmmakers have always found a way to incorporate sound so that it creates the perfect environment. Ben Burtt doing some field recording. "Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the history of motion pictures" -Ben Burtt The Sound Department consists of many creative and hardworking people that often have to wear multiple hats. You have the Sound Designers, Sound Editors, Foley Arti...