Tonebenders Podcast

In this discussion, Glenn Freemantle, a renowned Supervising Sound Editor, and Gillian Dodders, an expert in Dialogue/ADR editing, delve into the innovative sound design of Alex Garland's film, Civil War. They share insights on crafting immersive audio that captures the chaos of battle while creatively employing silence. The duo emphasizes the importance of collaboration in filmmaking and recounts their exhilarating experience at an IMAX screening. They also explore the challenge of balancing shock and realism in sound effects for intense scenes.

This past September, Tonebenders' host Tim Muirhead got to cover The Toronto International Film Festival. In this episode he interviews the sound teams behind some of the films he saw at TIFF '24. The main interview is with Eugenio Battaglia and Michael Babcock who did the sound work behind the psychological horror, Heretic. Next, Katie Halliday drops by to talk about her work as supervising sound editor on the boxing film The Fire Inside. Next up Zach Goheen and Juan Campos discuss the sound design of The Last Showgirl. Finally director Olivier Sarbil sits down for a one on one about his sound focused documentary, Viktor. 7:00 Heretic 30:51 The Fire Inside 40:52 The Last Showgirl 54:36 Viktor This episode is brought to you by Sound Ideas, check out their latest sound effects library Fight Foley Sound Effects https://www.sound-ideas.com/Product/2404/Fight-Foley-Sound-Effects Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/287-tonebenders-goes-to-t-i-f-f/ Podcast Homepage: tonebenderspodcast.com/ Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

Gemma Nicholson made the leap from being a busy sound editor to a successful post production supervisor. It is not a typical career path, but it gives her insight into the sound work done on any given project. This differentiates her from many other post supervisors, that might not have this built-in knowledge. In this interview she gives us her advice on how to get the most out of a working relationship with your post production supervisor. We discuss how to ask for more budget, how to set expectations, all the other departments that they deal with and lots more. This episode is brought to you by Sound Ideas, check out their latest sound effects library Fight Foley Sound Effects https://www.sound-ideas.com/Product/2404/Fight-Foley-Sound-Effects Check out the sonic Days Conference next week in Kolding. Denmark. Full Details at https://sonicdays.com Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/286-how-to-successfully-work-with-your-post-supervisor/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/ Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

In this re-podcast of an episode from 2018 we talk with Re-Recording Mixer Bernard Gariépy Strobl and Supervising Sound Editor Sylvain Bellemare, about their work on Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic Arrival. They tell us about the way they brought the soundtrack of the film to new heights. They even created an entire character in post, that was not in the script, through communications chatter and world-izing all the speakers and devices. This is a great talk about a fascinating film. This episode is hosted by Tim Muirhead & Teresa Morrow.

The Palme D’or winner from this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Anora is the latest film from director Sean Baker. Anora is also one of my favourite movies of the year so far. Co-supervising sound editors (and also the re-recording mixers) Andy Hay and John Warrin discuss how they molded the sound of this film. The film was largely shot docu-style with lots of overlapping dialogue and real life sound obtrusions, and a significant amount takes place in dance clubs with loud music blaring. These combined to make sound edit and mix particularly challenging. Check out www.sonicdays.com to register and learn all the details on this amazing sound conference happening in Kolding, Denmark from Nov. 19th-21st. This episode is brought to you by Sound Ideas, check out their latest sound effects library Just Wind. https://www.sound-ideas.com/Product/2400/Just-Wind-Sound-Effects- Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/283-anora/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/ Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

"Best Score" Oscar winner and Grammy "Album of the Year" winner, Jon Batiste joins Tonebenders to talk about his score for the Jason Reitman film, Saturday Night. He discusses the unusual way the music was recoded. It was captured on the set of the film during the evenings, after shooting was wrapped up each day. He also explains the way this idea came together and the people he collaborated with in order to pull it off. Make sure you check out this episode's companion with the sound team from the same film in Tonebenders #281 This episode is brought to you by Sound Ideas, check out their latest sound effects library Just Wind. https://www.sound-ideas.com/Product/2400/Just-Wind-Sound-Effects- Check out the Field Recording Slack's Regional Birds Crowd Sourced Library and how you can take part in it https://tinyurl.com/2s3pnkt4 
Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/282-jon-batiste-amp-his-unique-score-for-saturday-night/ Homepage: tonebenderspodcast.com/ Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

At the premier of Saturday Night at The Toronto International Film Festival, Director Jason Reitman made a special point of telling the audience that the sound team "put in a lot of work into making it feel like they didn't do any work at all". This is not the kind of film that you would think would have tricky sound obstacles, but that was not the case at all. Supervising Sound Editors Will Files, Lee Gilmore and David Butler, join production sound mixer Steven Morrow and music editor Chris Newlin to talk about the challenges they faced on this film. Don't miss part 2 of our coverage coming out next, featuring Jon Batiste about how the score was recorded on set during production?! This episode is brought to you by Sound Ideas, check out their latest sound effects library Just Wind. www.sound-ideas.com/Product/2400/Ju…-Sound-Effects- 
Show Notes: tonebenderspodcast.com/281-the-sound…turday-night/ Homepage: tonebenderspodcast.com/ Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

The Sounding Board 4.0 has just been announced by The Cinema Audio Society and The Motion Picture Sound Editors! So that makes it a great time to push out this talk from last year's Sounding Board, that was moderated by Tonebenders' host Tim Muirhead. We have all heard many interviews with Re-Recording Mixers, so as a contrast, this panel focuses on the rest of the important mixers involved in the audio post process. Foley Mixer Gary DeLeone (and his Foley Artist, Michell Kohen), ADR/Loop Group Mixer Jesse Dodd and Scoring Mixer David Boucher all get a spotlight to shine on their craft. This episode was recorded live in front of The Sounding Board's audience in October 2023. This episode is brought to you by Sound Ideas, check out their latest sound effects library Just Wind. https://www.sound-ideas.com/Product/2400/Just-Wind-Sound-Effects- 
Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/280-the-sounding-boards-mixers-panel/ Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/ Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead Get Tickets to Sounding Board 4.0, on October 20th at https://shop.cinemaaudiosociety.org

Inside Out 2 takes the foundation of the original film and pushes those ideas even further, especially with sound design. Coya Elliot and Ren Klyce join the show to discuss how the glass memory balls became a much more important sound in this sequel and how they recorded and designed sounds for all the hockey sequences. They also talk about the lessons they learned from the first film as their dialog treatments went from mix theatre to real world cinemas, and the adjustments to their approach in part two. This episode is brought to you by Sound Ideas, check out their latest sound effects library Robots & Servos. Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/279-inside-out-2/ Podcast Homepage: tonebenderspodcast.com/ Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

Kneecap is a film chock full of manic energy, about an Irish hip-hop group swept up into a political grassroots movement almost against their will. This perfect mix of the music, multiple languages and madcap sound design fuels the chaos around our main characters. The Audio Post team of Louise Burton (Dialog Supervisor), Richard Armstrong (Music Editor), Aza Hand (Re-Recording Mixer) and Brendan Rehill (Supervising Sound Editor) tell us about recording ADR for live music performances, creating and mixing crowds going bonkers and the tricky art of making stereo songs intended for home listening fill up a large cinema. This episode is brought to you by Sound Ideas, check out their latest sound effects library Robots & Servos. https://www.sound-ideas.com/Product/1396/Robot-and-Servo-Sound-Effects- 
Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/278-kneecap/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/ Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead