Winter 2014

The Sound and Music Issue Winter 2014

We consult the leading practitioners in all things aural—recordists, mixers, designers, composers and filmmakers— who proffered sage counsel on how to achieve the best sound for your documentary,

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Features

Sounding Out Documentaries

On production sound...

By Bob Fisher

Sound Minded: Dolby Institute Promotes Audio as a Storytelling Tool

In 2013, Dolby Labs launched the Dolby Institute...

By Suz Curtis

Behind Your Film's Soundtrack: The Important Role of the Music Supervisor

Music supervision is one of those coveted jobs by...

By Brooke Wentz

Aural Fixations: Creating Sound and Music for Docs

Front row: sound supervisor/mixer James LeBrecht...

By Tom White

Compelling, Complex, Complicated: Documentary Diplomacy in the Middle East

The American Film Showcase in Israel and...

By Katie Dellamaggiore

Docs That Really Rock: Music Documentaries Go Beyond the Performance

Over the last decade, there has been an explosion...

By Ron Deutsch

Taking the Aural High Ground: Successful Sound and Mixing for Your Film

James Lebrecht. Photo: B. Doug Jensen Whether you...

By james LeBrecht

Production Music Libraries Today: The How-to Guide

In today's fast-paced and budget-conscious...

By Lonnie Sill

Minding Your Beats and Cues: Tips for Working with a Composer

Filmmakers have often told me that they find the...

By miriam cutler

Championing Documentary as an Empathy Machine: Tabitha Jackson Joins the Sundance Institute

The Sundance Institute recently named Tabitha...

By Suz Curtis

Columns

Notes from the Reel World: The Executive Director's Column, Winter 2014

By Michael Lumpkin

Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Winter 2014

By Tom White

Werner Herzog's 'Grizzly Man'

By David France

Profile: The Documentary Center at George Washington University

By Katie Murphy

The Killing Fields: A Filmic Inquiry into Violence

By mary moylan

Penn & Teller and Tim & Vermeer: Magic Duo Create Doc on Technology and Art

By wanda bershen

Wiseman Plays Berkeley: The Legendary Documentarian Takes on the Decline in Funding Public Education

By Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson