"Sound mixers are the first to acknowledge that there are still a lot of misconceptions about what it is that they do.
"Because of the nature of our senses, we expect to hear the things we look at. So with film, we expect the sound to be there, while on most of the big films, the sound is completely recreated and really very little of it would sound like what you're hearing," explained rerecording mixer Michael Prestwood Smith, a double Cinema Audio Society nominee for Captain Phillips and Iron Man 3, and an Oscar nom for Paul Greengrass' Phillips. "The task is to let the audience believe they are experiencing something genuine, but also exciting and dramatic." Read More >
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