SSN Awards Spotlights: Glenn Freemantle, Brent Burge, Richard Hymns, Sound Editing vs. Sound Mixing

AWARDS ORIGINALS

BEST SOUND EDITING, SOUND MIXING

 

Awards Spotlight: How ‘Gravity’ Sound Designer/Editor Glenn Freemantle Takes the Audience “Through Her Helmet into Her World” Using Sound

Gravity uses sound in a way no other film ever has. The man to thank for that is Glenn Freemantle, who has one Oscar nomination under his belt, for 2009’s Slumdog Millionaire, and will most assuredly get another one this year for his work in the Alfonso Cuarón film. (SSN)

Awards Spotlight: ‘The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug’ Brent Burge on Editing the Sounds of Beorns, Necromancers, Bolgs & One Dragon

Burge has been in the film industry for close to three decades and worked in the sound department on dozens of projects. He hooked up with Peter Jackson in the mid-‘90s and has worked with him on the Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong, Lovely Bones, and now on a pair of Hobbit films. With his work as supervising sound editor on Desolation of Smaug, he hopes to garner his first Oscar nomination. (SSN)

Awards Spotlight: Oscar Winning Sound Editor Richard Hymns on ‘All Is Lost’, Redford as a Wedding Guest & “The Real Danger”

Richard Hymns may not be a household name, but the likes of Steven Spielberg, David Fincher, James Cameron, and Robert Redford all regularly turn to him to oversee the sound work on their films. Hymns has won a trio of Oscars, but it was a special relationship with Redford that led Hymns to getting one of the most unique and exciting jobs he’s ever had, on J.C. Chandor’s All Is Lost. (SSN)

Oscars 2014: Sound Editing Vs. Sound Mixing—Yes, There’s a Difference!

If you aren’t sure what the difference is between sound mixing and sound editing, you’re not alone. Even some directors “who’ve done incredible work without the structure of a studio release” don’t understand the process, says Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Sound Branch Governor Curt Behlmer. But despite the confusion, mixing and editing are two distinct skill sets. (SSN)