What if living in silence was your only means of survival? That’s the question supervising sound editors Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl had to answer in the hair-raising thriller “A Quiet Place” ...
In “All Quiet on the Western Front,” from director Edward Berger, soldier Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer) is found in a pile of rubble by his comrades having survived a night of enemy shelling. As he ...
When we think of Academy Award-winning sound design, 2017’s bombastic Dunkirk score by Hanz Zimmer or 2016’s haunting Arrival soundtrack (Jóhann Jóhannsson) come to mind, but the 2019 Oscars may ...
Silence isn’t just the absence of sound. It has a texture—and sometimes it feels so thick you can almost lean on it.That’s ...
After being delayed by more than a year thanks to the pandemic, “A Quiet Place Part II” will finally hit theaters May 28. And suffice to say, sound is hugely important in the sequel—after all, it is ...
The Oscar nominees from 'The Batman' and 'Elvis' also describe transporting audiences to other worlds with inventive audio techniques. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor When it comes to creating movie ...
When a tree falls in a movie, and the audience needs to hear it, a dedicated team of experts is there to ensure that it makes a sound. “The most common definition (of a sound designer) is somebody who ...