Which Film was Cut Best!?   Oh Editing! One of my favorite pastimes. Much of a film can be sculpted in the editing room. You get to take the raw material put forth by the director and crew, to stitch together the story. It’s such a thrill, as the story starts to become clear, and [...]

The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement In the days leading up to Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 election, a former civil rights activist looks back on the early days of the movement. Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin – First Academy Award nomination. God is the Bigger Elvis In 1963, [...]

  Belgium, “Bullhead” For Jacky, a young man working on his family’s cattle farm in eastern Belgium, the crime ring surrounding the use of banned growth hormones represents both a financial opportunity and the possible exposure of his own troubled past.  With an old friend urging him to agree to an illegal deal, Jacky finds [...]

Albert Nobbs In nineteenth-century Ireland, a shy hotel waiter named Albert Nobbs has spent years concealing a secret.  After meeting an outgoing painter who has chosen a different approach to an identical dilemma, Albert begins to consider abandoning a decades-long strategy of solitude and self-denial. Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston – First Academy Award nomination for [...]

The Adventures of Tintin When Tintin buys a model of a ship called the Unicorn, his curiosity is piqued by two men who both try to convince him to sell it.  Learning that the ship holds an important clue to the location of a hidden treasure, the boy reporter soon finds himself swept up in [...]

“Man or Muppet” from THE MUPPETS When a puppet named Walter visits Hollywood and learns that an oil baron plans to seize the legendary Muppet Studios and destroy it drilling for oil, he and his brother, Gary, along with Gary’s fiancée, set out to find the original members of the long-disbanded Muppets. Music and Lyric [...]

Pentecost A young Irish boy faces a difficult choice that may leave him at odds with his small community. Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane – First Academy Award nomination for both. Raju A German couple adopts an Indian orphan in Calcutta. Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren The Shore Two boyhood best friends from Northern Ireland [...]

Dimanche/Sunday A small boy’s Sunday is filled with both ordinary and extraordinary events. Patrick Doyon – First Academy Award nomination. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore A storm transports a young man to a place where books are living entities. William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg – First Academy Award nomination for both. La [...]

Continuing our SOUND adventure, sound editing is best explained this way “In sound editing, one creates music or sounds from nothing at all, making it original and distinct to a particular film. In simplified terms, sound editing means creating. Sound editing used to be called sound effects but the latest name gives it a broader [...]

So what is sound mixing? On the website www.differencebetween.com, it’s put like this: “This is how the sounds such as effects, dialogue and music are put together to accentuate a particular scene.” So the sound mixer is playing with the levels of the talking, melding it into the music and the background sound making everything [...]