Director Steve McQueen's new film, Blitz, is full of stunning visuals. The audio team was tasked with coming up with sounds that could match, and often exceed, the beauty of the images they are accompanying. The war surrounding our main characters is often happening off screen, as the bombs are raining down as a catalyst for the human drama happening in underground shelters and tube stations. The team had to dream up the sound design of steam trains, massive fires and explosions galore.  All of this while creating a realistic sound scape for 1940s London. James Harrison and Paul Cotterell both served as Blitz's re-recording mixers and supervising sound editors and they are joined in this talk by production sound mixer Jahn Casali.

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Gladiator II is the massive sequel to director Ridley Scott's award winning original film, released in 2000. This time everything is raised up a few notches though. The sound team of Paul Massey (Dialog/Music Re-Recording Mixer) Danny Sheehan (Supervising Sound Editor), Matt Collinge (Supervising Sound Editor & SFX/Foley Re-Recording Mixer) and Stéphane Bucher (Production Sound Mixer) had to equal, and even exceed, that levelling up with their sound work. So much detail and effort went into making the crowd reactions in the Roman Coliseum, almost narrate the emotions of the battles. The production sound team and the audio post team had to work hand in hand to create this impressive feast for the ears.

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Wicked has music that swings from massive orchestral pieces, to delicate underscore. There is sound design adding comedy, tension and fear. On top of all that, there is the singing, recorded live on set, that really brings out the emotions of the story. Production sound mixer Simon Hayes tells us how they captured the vocals on a busy set and supervising sound editors Nancy Nugent Title & John Marquis discuss building up the sounds to create the sonic world of Oz. Supervising music editor Jack Dolman, discusses how the music all came together from pre-records to the final edit. All that work, so re-recording mixers Andy Nelson and John Marquis could sculpt the mix to make this crowd pleasing epic operate at its peak.

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The 1st annual Bendie Awards featuring winners in categories like "Guest of The Year", "Sound Sequence of The Year", "Best Subtle Sound Detail", "Favourite Movie of the Year" and "Most Listened To Episode of the Year". Plus Tim gives a run down of all the amazing things that happened for Tonbenders in 2024.

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Wind is hard to do sound design for.... really hard.  What can sound like a huge powerful gust, when you are out in the world with a microphone, is often a major let down when you get back to the studio to listen. So I jumped at the chance to talk with the Twisters sound team to learn how they tackled the winds in this tornado focused film. Supervising sound editors Bjorn Schroeder & Al Nelson are joined by re-recording mixers Chris Boyes & Pete Horner, as well as assistant supervising sound editor Sarah Shaw, to break down how they designed the swirling wind (and lots more!) in this blockbuster adventure film. This episode is sponsored by Sound Ideas new Golf Sound Effects library: https://www.sound-ideas.com/Product/2441/Golf-Sound-Effects Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/291-twisters/Podcast Homepage: tonebenderspodcast.com This episode is hosted by Timothy Muirhead

The new film A Complete Unknown follows the early life of Bob Dylan as he first arrives in New York City and meets the people that would define his musical journey. Director James Mangold's movie features live performances in small rooms, bars, as well as massive festivals and the sound team had to make each song feel real and unique. Supervising Sound Editor Don Sylvester, Re-recording Mixer Paul Massey, Supervising Music Editor Ted Caplan and Production Sound Mixer Tod Maitland tell us how they built the live scenes of musical history with the use of real vintage microphones, cleaver editing and many passes on the mix stage.

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Four members of the sound team from director Jacques Audiard's new film, Emilia Pérez, joined me for a talk about how they tried to use the sound design to make a new kind of musical. Cyril Holtz (Sound Supervisor & Re-Recording Mixer), Aymeric Devoldère (Supervising Sound Editor), Hortense Bailly (Supervising Voice Editor) and Carolina Santana (ADR Supervisor) share their workflows on this complicated film. Including dealing with songs featuring pre-recorded vocals, live singing from on set and ADR recorded months later and making it all flow seamlessly. This episode is sponsored by Sound Ideas new Golf Sound Effects library: https://www.sound-ideas.com/Product/2441/Golf-Sound-Effects Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/289-emilia-perez/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com This episode is hosted by Timothy Muirhead

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the kind of film that feels like anything can happen at any time. The wild sound design plays a large role is setting up that feeling of comedic unease. Supervising Sound Editor Jimmy Boyle, Re-Recording Mixers Chris Burdon & Gilbert Lake, Supervising Dialogue Editor Buster Flaws and Music Consultant & Arranger Mike Higham, join the podcast to talk about their bizarre adventures to create the sounds of Beetlejuice BeetleJuice. From re-creating classic rock tracks from scratch to using their own voices to create the sounds of the underworld, lots of creative thinking was needed. This episode was recorded at Formosa Trident studios, in London.

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Check out Sonic Days website for full info about this amazing sound conference https://sonicdays.com

Listeners in the Toronto area, mark your calendars for Dec 3rd at 7pm for the Toronto Tonebenders Sound Deign Meetup, Presented by The Motion Picture Sound Editors. It will be at The Pilot on the main floor.

Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/284-beetlejuice-beetlejuice/

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When Alex Garland's latest film, Civil War, was released earlier this year, there was a lot of talk about the sound design of the film and its ultra-realistic take on the sound of battle. I was invited by the sound team to come to Pinewood Studios, near London, to hear the film in the room it was mixed in. We talk about the decision process they went through to land on the innovative mix of the film. Glenn Freemantle, (Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer), Gillian Dodders (Supervising Dialogue/ADR Editor) and Ben Barker, (co-supervising sound editor) discuss how the sound design evolved on the mix stage, building up chaos with loop group, and their creative use of silence.

This past September, Tonebenders' host Tim Muirhead got to cover The Toronto International Film Festival. In this episode he interviews the sound teams behind some of the films he saw at TIFF '24. The main interview is with Eugenio Battaglia and Michael Babcock who did the sound work behind the psychological horror, Heretic. Next, Katie Halliday drops by to talk about her work as supervising sound editor on the boxing film The Fire Inside. Next up Zach Goheen and Juan Campos discuss the sound design of The Last Showgirl. Finally director Olivier Sarbil sits down for a one on one about his sound focused documentary, Viktor.

7:00 Heretic

30:51 The Fire Inside

40:52 The Last Showgirl

54:36 Viktor

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Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/287-tonebenders-goes-to-t-i-f-f/

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