NEWS: Cinema Audio Society Nominees Add Audio Realism to Film Action1 min read
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As the Cinema Audio Society heads toward the 55th CAS Awards, its nominees, who have created immersive and intoxicating work, agree that sound is becoming the new frontier in storytelling.
“Today’s directors understand the importance of sound from the start,” says Doc Kane, who is nominated for Black Panther, Incredibles 2 and Ralph Breaks the Internet. “Looping is a perfect example. Years ago it was typically used as a safety track. Now, it’s an intricate part of the process and Ryan [Coogler] knew how to work the ADR tool box on Black Panther.”
In articulating the soundscape of Wakanda the director intertwined native African languages into scenes on city streets and used the ADR stage to record precise breaths and dialogue for fight scenes.
Re-recording mixer Tom Fleischman of Free Solo, a documentary that relied on Foley and score to build the suspense behind Alex Honnold’s death-defying climb of El Capitan, agrees. “Sound has gotten a lot more sophisticated in the digital age and directors are becoming more invested in exploring things sonically.”
Image credit: Samuel Crossley
