Sound Design

The creation of sound to use in films is always fascinating. What in the real world made the sound that became a…

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Spider-Man’s always had a curiously animal-heavy rogues gallery compared to other superheroes. While a number of…

Frank Serafine, a respected sound engineer and composer with a wide-ranging career in film, has died at age 65.

Civil War is a big, loud ensemble movie. That’s what we expect from it, and that’s why it’s fun. But when the camera…

The Force Awakens, as you might have figured with the title, is about a resurgence of the power of the Force in the S…

The first thing an architect or graphic designer will do at the start of a project is to produce some preliminary…

Here’s a fun bit: a foley artist recreating and accentuating the sounds of everyday life, transforming a shower into…

Part of making the Jurassic Park franchise’s dinosaurs awe-inspiring is the sound design, and Jurassic World had to…

Apart from the razor-sharp dialogues, Tarantino's movies are famous for their glossy visuals. But those visuals…

Take a deep dive into the sound design behind this year's Godzilla movie. The lengths this team went to was pretty…

It's not often I walk away from a movie and talk about how great the sound design was. But that's because I'm easily…

Legendary sound designer Ben Burtt describes the surprising noises he and his team recorded and later combined to…

Losing your hearing can be a frighteningly isolating experience. But instead of trying to replace the audible…

Darth Vader's caped getup and face mask is spooky and all, but there's nothing like the grisly, mechanical sound of…

Last week, the European Parliament ruled that all electric and hybrid cars must add artificial engine noise so that…

You unlock this post with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension—a dimension of sound, a dimension…

You hear it every time you get a text message or alert. It's arguably the most iconic noise associated with the…

Part of what makes Disneyland such an immersive experience is the sophisticated sound design found throughout the…

Even if you just hear a science fiction movie or TV show playing in another room, you'll instantly recognize it…