Recordists

Orchestral layout is highly dependent upon the type of film music being recorded, according to scoring mixer John Kurlander.

Legendary movie producer Sam Goldwyn wrote the quote, opposite, in an article for The New York Times Magazine in 1949, just as television was emerging as a major mass medium.

With the clarity of hindsight,perhaps the Academy can find a way to single out those films of past years that may have been unjustly overlooked.

My mother, father, aunt and uncles were all in the teachers union. I learned from an early age how unions can help us make our lives better.

They say brevity is the soul of wit, and scoring mixers seem to have a sense of humor about what their job entails. “We get coffee for the composer. End …

The expansion of digital filmmaking into HD and beyond has seen film become an anachronism, rather than a competitor or adjunct to digital.  Many of the traditional assistant’s duties are …

Perhaps no other classification in the Guild is so caught in the middle between yesterday and tomorrow, with one foot in the analogue past and the other in the digital …

Some excerpts from a panel of sound effects professionals.

From the beginning of his film career in the early 1950s, filmmaker Robert Altman has utilized sound in unorthodox and spontaneous ways.

Remember, the job you lose just may be your own!