Hollywood Sound Design and Moviesound Newsletter: A Case Study of the End of the Analog Age

ISBN-13: 9780367668112 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 382 str.

David Stone

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As film students and younger fans experience "Big Hollywood Sound" in Imax presentations and digital theaters, many are also discovering action and adventure movies made well before they were born. There is a legacy to be enjoyed in the sound of these films: Blockbuster movies of the ‘80’s, and ‘90’s are notable for the extraordinarily dramatic

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Reel One: Short Subjects: (Glossary, Trivia, Scoreboard); Reel Two: Exhibitionists (The Theater Beat); Reel Three: Sound Reports: (Notices, News Articles, and Big News); Reel Four: Rewinding (Articles, historical); Reel Five: Talking Pictures (Interviews); Reel Six: Active Listening (Reviews at the Movies); Reel Seven: Critical Listening (Reviews at Home); Reel Eight: Sound Thinking (Thoughts and Analysis); Reel Nine: Sturm und Drang (Editorial and Opinion); Reel Ten: Unsound Thinking (Humor); Reel Eleven: Reader Participation (Bag of Snail-Mail); Reel Twelve: Time And Tide (Concerns And Obituaries).

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David E. Stone is a sound editor, a veteran of roughly one hundred Hollywood feature films such as Gremlins, Top Gun, Die Hard, Speed, and Ocean’s 11. He was a supervising sound editor for projects as varied as Predator, Edward Scissorhands, Beauty and the Beast, Batman Returns, City Slickers 2, and Dolores Claiborne. He has collected Golden Reel awards for Best Sound Editing five times, and won the 1992 Academy Award^® for best Sound Effects Editing, for his supervising work on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In 2015, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award by the San Luis Obispo Jewish Film Festival in California. Stone is a now a professor and former Chair of Sound Design at Savannah College of Art and Design. Between 1989 and 1994, he was the editor of Moviesound Newsletter, which was published by Vanessa Ament.

 

Dr. Vanessa Theme Ament is the author of The Foley Grail and a contributor to Sound: Dialogue, Music, and Effects (the Silver Screen Series). She is on the steering committee for Cinesonika, an international film festival and conference that celebrates sound and music in film and video. A veteran Foley artist, sound editor, and voice actor from Los Angeles, she also writes and sings jazz, and is a member of several industry unions, including American Federation of Musicians, SAG-AFTRA, Actors Equity, and the Editors Guild. Some of the films Dr. Ament has worked on include Die Hard, sex, lies, and videotape, Platoon, Predator, Edward Scissorhands, Beauty and the Beast, Noises Off, and A Goofy Movie. Dr. Ament received her Ph.D. in Communication, in the area of Moving Image Studies, from Georgia State University in Atlanta, and is presently the Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Endowed Chair Professor of Telecommunications, at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.