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Posted by on feb 26, 2011

Filmgeluidenmaker Gary Hecker

The Art of Making Movie Sounds op Open Culture bracht me in aanraking met filmgeluidenmaker Gary Hecker. Zijn prestaties hoorde ik vast eerder, maar nu wordt een kijkje achter de schermen getoond.

From “The Empire Strikes Back” to “Robin Hood”, award-winning Foley artist Gary Hecker of Todd-AO says it takes “timing and a huge creative mind” to be the man behind the sound. Here, he shares tips and tricks he’s learned during a career that has spanned more than 200 films.

Hecker also recently joined CSS Studios’ Todd-AO in late 2009. One of the most accomplished Foley artists in Hollywood. Among his recent credits are 2012, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Angel & Demons, Watchmen and the Spiderman trilogy.

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Posted by on feb 17, 2011

Uniek kijkje in de Pixarkeuken

Getting inside Pixar Studios has never been easy. But last week The New York Times pulled it off, producing a six minute video that takes you through the studios designed by Steve Jobs himself, and inside Pixar’s patented animation process – a process that combines more traditional and cutting-edge elements.

bron: Open Culture

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Posted by on feb 5, 2011

Super Bowl met de touch van topregisseurs

Hieronder een mooie verbeelding van hoe de Superbowl eruit zou zien wanneer zij geregisseerd zou worden door bewezen topregisseurs. Persoonlijk vind ik de ‘bewerking’ door Werner Herzog er bovenuit steken.

What would it look like if our great directors took creative control over the Super Bowl broadcast? Slate imagines it, showing you how Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Werner Herzog and Jean-Luc Godard would put their cinematic stamp on the broadcast. The clip gets better as it moves along…”

bron: Open Culture

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Posted by on jan 7, 2011

Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom: muziekeducatie Disneystyle

The first ever cartoon in CinemaScope. In this short subject (which mostly represents a departure from Disney’s traditional approach to animation), a stuffy owl teacher lectures his feathered flock on the origins of Western musical instruments. Starting with cavepeople, whose crude implements could only “toot, whistle, plunk and boom,” the owl explains how these beginnings led to the development of the four basic types of Western musical instruments: brass, woodwinds, strings, and percussion.”

Bron is het onvolprezen Open Culture, dat overigens ook weet te melden dat Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom in 1954 een Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons) kreeg. Daarnaast kwam het terecht op de 29e plaats in de 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time.

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