Posts Tagged ‘academy awards’

Track Stars – The Unseen Heroes Of Movie Sound

Friday, April 16th, 2010

I have been looking for a copy of this for a while, stumbled across it today and just had to share it with you.

It’s called Track Stars: The Unseen Heroes Of Movie Sound – shot in 1979, it features the work of foley artists Andy Malcolm and Terry Burke.

What’s really neat is when their efforts at foley in this short film get so over the top and you realize the entire exercise is a study in foley with them adding sound fx to the shots of them creating sound fx.

I had the pleasure of working with Andy on our Big Comfy Couch series and his passion for sound was infectious. He and his team were the best and we felt SO lucky to have their Academy Award winning talent helping us out on our dinky little kids show with clowns. Just freakin’ awesome. Andy can currently be found at footsteps post-production sound inc.

Thanks, Andy.

Cheers.

P.S. If you want to know more about Foley click here.

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I Met The Walrus

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

From the YouTube post:

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrators James Braithwaite and Alex Kurina have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit and timeless message, I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short and won the 2009 Emmy for ‘New Approaches’ (making it the first film to win an Emmy on behalf of the internet).

Cheers.

P.S. I’ve seen this before but I heard about it again today on Twitter via the most excellent and awesome Roger Ebert and just had to share.

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