For our 3rd and final episode in our series on Sound Design for Documentaries we talk with the director and sound team behind the magnificent David Bowie doc Moonage Daydream.  They talk about rebuilding all the music from the original 24 track recordings, making the crowds feel realistic/immersive, merging extensive sound design into iconic songs and cleaning up archival dialog so it can cut through.  Sound Supervisors Nina Hartstone & John Warhurst, Re-Recording Mixers Paul Massey & David Giammarco and Director Brett Morgen have stories to spare about how this great film broke new sonic ground.

Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/212---documentary-sound-focus-moonage-daydream/

Podcast Homepage:  https://tonebenderspodcast.com

Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

212 - Documentary Sound Focus:  Moonage Daydream

Tonebenders is a Sound Design podcast dedicated to covering the worlds of sound editing, field recording and audio post production for film, television and gaming.  Through interviews and experiments we delve into everything from foley to plugins.  Check us out at www.tonebenderspodcast.com

TV & Film

Are you nervous about starting a new project? Don’t worry; so is everyone else, including your sound design hero, Randy Thom. Spotting sessions are a chance to talk through the edit, scene by scene. These gatherings give the director, the composer and the rest of the editorial team a chance to sort out out technical issues and determine the direction and shape the soundtrack is going to take.  Randy joins us to talk about about what kind of attitude, questions and objectives he brings to the spotting sessions for new film projects. (This episode was originally released in March 2020)
Show Notes & Full Transcript: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/258---randy-thom-on-getting-the-most-out-of-spotting-sessions-re-podcast/
Podcast Homepage:  https://tonebenderspodcast.com

Tonebenders Hosts This Episode: Timothy Muirhead & Teresa Morrow

258 - Randy Thom On Getting The Most Out Of Spotting Sessions (Re - Podcast)

Laurence Anslow, who recently recorded and mixed the score for the recent Percy Jackson series and also worked on Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, joins us this week.  He is at the top of the game, and yet his workflows as a score recordist and mixer, are a complete mystery to many in audio post.  So I asked him to come on the show and talk us through what a orchestral score recording session is like, how he delivers his tracks and who he is interacting with the most from the rest of the sound team. I learned a lot while talking with Laurence and I hope you are able to gain a bunch of knowledge as well.
Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/257---the-art-of-recording--mixing-score-with-laurence-anslow/

Podcast Homepage:  https://tonebenderspodcast.com

Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

257 - The Art Of Recording And Mixing Score With Laurence Anslow

Magic is always a massive challenge to do sound design for and we can alway use advice on how to tackle it.  So we brought in the experts from the team behind the impressive new sound library Conjure, from Echo Collective.  Rene Coronado and Brad Dale discuss their approach to magic sound design, recording new material and props, the tools they use in processing and lots more. Check out their Conjure magic library at https://echocollectivefx.com/product/conjure
Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/256---sound-design-for-magic/

Podcast Homepage:  https://tonebenderspodcast.com

Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

256 - Sound Design For Magic

The sound work of the recent Netflix series "Avatar The Last Airbender" was a massive challenge on both the sound design and the dialog side of things.  We talk with Re-Recording Mixers Joe Barnett & Adam Jenkins as well as Supervising Sound Editors Tim Kimmel & Luke Gibleon about how they made massive battle sounds for powers based on fire, water/ice, earth and air.  Plus they talk about how they organize a session to go from editorial to the mix stage smoothly.
Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/255---the-sound-of-avatar-the-last-airbender/

Podcast Homepage:  https://tonebenderspodcast.com

Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

255 - The Sound Of Avatar The Last Airbender

We talk with Norway's own Tormod Ringnes, about his excellent sound work on director Margreth Olin's new documentary, Songs Of Earth.  As the film's title implies, the sound of the film is extremely important.  We follow the director's 83 year old father as he hikes the rugged and beautiful nature of Norway in every season of the year.  From intense ice sound design to desolate mountain silence.
Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/254---songs-of-earth-with-tormod-ringnes/

Podcast Homepage:  https://tonebenderspodcast.com

Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

212 - Documentary Sound Focus: Moonage Daydream

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