AES New York 2017
Audio for Cinema Track Event Details
Wednesday, October 18, 10:45 am — 12:15 pm (Rm 1E07 (5.1))
Audio for Cinema: AC01 - 3D Audio Tools for Immersive Audio
Presenters:Rafael Duyos, DSpatial - Barcelona, Spain
Nuno Fonseca, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria - Leiria, Portugal; Sound Particles
Gael Martinet, Flux:: sound and picture development - Orleans, France
Connor Sexton, Avid - Berkeley, CA, USA
Immersive audio is here to stay, but should we continue to use the same ordinary mono/stereo tools? This tutorial will present four different approaches to 3D audio, covering immersive sound design and mixing, which will help you to take full advantage of the new immersive cinema formats.
 | This session is presented in association with the AES Technical Committee on Audio for Cinema |
Wednesday, October 18, 2:00 pm — 3:00 pm (Rm 1E14)
Audio for Cinema: AC02 - The Art and Science of Foley
Chair:Leslie Bloome, Alchemy Post Sound - New York, NY, USA
Panelists:
Andrea Bloome, Alchemy Post Sound
Ryan Collison, Foley Mixer
Joanna Fang, Foley Artist
Talk to the Emmy award winning Foley team from Alchemy Post Sound about how they create organic sounds from a technical and artistic perspective, including: What is Foley; What techniques are commonly used to integrate Foley into the project’s soundscape; What is the division of labor between Foley and sound design.
AES Members can watch a video of this session for free.
| This session is presented in association with the AES Technical Committee on Audio for Cinema |
Wednesday, October 18, 3:45 pm — 5:15 pm (Rm 1E10)
Audio for Cinema: AC03 - Future of Audio for Cinema
Chair:Nuno Fonseca, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria - Leiria, Portugal; Sound Particles
Panelists:
Kevin Collier, VP, Engineering & Technology, Warner Bros Studio Facilities - Burbank, CA, USA
Douglas Greenfield, Dolby Labs - Burbank, CA, USA
Avi Laniado, Chief Engineer, Harbor Picture Company
Brian A. Vessa, Sony Pictures Entertainment - Culver City, CA, USA; Chair SMPTE 25CSS standards committee
Technology is constantly changing and audio is not an exception. What would be the future of audio for cinema? What are the unresolved challenges that still need to be addressed? This session will discuss the future of audio for cinema with several experts on the field.
| This session is presented in association with the AES Technical Committee on Audio for Cinema |
Thursday, October 19, 9:00 am — 10:30 am (Rm 1E07 (5.1))
Audio for Cinema: AC04 - Production Sound: Current Trends and Proven Traditions
Presenter:Glen Trew, CAS
As audio technology advances rapidly, sound quality can improve as a result, but not always. Based on his 40 years as a production sound mixer for film and video, and owner of Trew Audio, Glen Trew will discuss the new technology and techniques of production dialog and music on the set, and when some long-established traditions are preferred. Choices regarding mixing and tracking, and boom mics vs. body mics, and music lip-sync vs. recording live on the set will be covered, followed by Q&A.
Co-organized with Cinema Audio Society (CAS).
| This session is presented in association with the AES Technical Committee on Audio for Cinema |
Thursday, October 19, 10:45 am — 12:15 pm (Rm 1E10)
Audio for Cinema: AC05 - Loudness Issues in Cinema—Is the Reference Lost?
Chair:Eelco Grimm, HKU University of the Arts - Utrecht, Netherlands; Grimm Audio - Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Panelists:
John Fithian, NATO - Washington, DC, USA
Tom Fleischman, CAS - New York, NY, USA
Charles Q. Robinson, Dolby Laboratories - San Francisco, CA, USA
Better sound systems may reproduce louder movies. Louder movies generate audience complaints. Complaints press cinema owners to lower the playback level. Lower playback levels make dialogue intelligible. Dubbing stages are pressed to print louder.
Is the “sacred” reference level lost? This workshop will discuss the current issues with loudness in movies, with points-of-view from mixers, exhibitors, and technology providers.
| This session is presented in association with the AES Technical Committee on Audio for Cinema |
Thursday, October 19, 1:30 pm — 3:00 pm (Rm 1E07 (5.1))
Audio for Cinema: AC06 - Dialog in Film and Television
Presenters:Bobby Johanson, CAS / Harbor picture company - New York, NY, USA
Peter Schneider, Gotham Sound and Communications, Inc - Long Island City, NY, USA; Tisch School of the Arts - New York, NY, USA
Alexa Zimmerman
Storytelling is the main goal of movies, and storytelling is mainly done with dialogue. This session will focus on the work done with dialogue, from production sound to post production. Because the lack of dialogue intelligibility is the best way to ruin a movie…
| This session is presented in association with the AES Technical Committee on Audio for Cinema |
Thursday, October 19, 3:15 pm — 4:45 pm (Rm 1E10)
Audio for Cinema: AC07 - Best Practices in Re-Recording Mixing
Presenter:Tom Fleischman, CAS - New York, NY, USA
This session on re-recording will include how Tom Fleischman approaches a project from the beginning to the end, focusing on how the mix can enhance the storytelling, the importance of clarity of dialogue, and the various ways that music and sound effects are used to engage the audience emotionally and to keep the suspension of disbelief. He will also discuss some of the history of how re-recording has changed over the last 40 years and how the advent of digital sound recording and digital signal processing have changed the way that films are mixed. Although he uses advanced technological tools in the mix, and he will discuss the use of these tools, he is much more oriented toward the art of the process and how what he does affects how the story is told and how important it is to keep the audience engaged with what is happening dramatically on the screen.
Co-organized with Cinema Audio Society (CAS).
| This session is presented in association with the AES Technical Committee on Audio for Cinema |
Friday, October 20, 10:45 am — 12:00 pm (Rm 1E07 (5.1))
Audio for Cinema: AC08 - Constructing a 5.1 Home Studio for Film, TV Mixing
Presenters:Roger Guerin, levels.tv - Ste. Adele, QC, Canada
Jean-Luc Louradour, Resonance TJL Inc - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Used to be a freelance mixer would come up to a mixing stage and after an hour or so he had a good take on the environment and was able to work. The room was calibrated, the equipment was serviced by trained personnel, and at least one resourceful assistant was available. Today everyone is looking to cut corners, the trained personnel has left, the calibration “was done two weeks ago,” and the resourceful assistant has moved on. Thankfully the technology made giant leaps over the years, like the record business, with home recording; it's more and more viable to convert that extra room or garage into a mixing stage. This tutorial will demonstrate the ins and outs of a basic home mixing stage making use of off-the-rack materials with economical and ingenious solutions.
| This session is presented in association with the AES Technical Committee on Audio for Cinema |
Friday, October 20, 3:15 pm — 4:45 pm (Rm 1E10)
Audio for Cinema: AC09 - Bridging the Gap between Creativity & Technology: Working with Composers on Film and Media Projects
Presenters:Joe Carroll, Manhattan Producers Alliance - New York, NY, USA
Frank Ferrucci, Manhattan Producers Alliance: VP - New York, NY, USA; Leenalisa Music: Composer/Producer
This session presented by NYC Composer/Producer and Manhattan Producers Alliance VP Frank Ferrucci gives a behind the scenes look into the technological challenges composers and engineers face when collaborating on film, television, and other visual media projects. The presentation addresses some less obvious but no less important ways that Music Engineers and Film Mixers can work best with composers and how technology can be used to help this collaboration be as seamless as possible.
| This session is presented in association with the AES Technical Committee on Audio for Cinema |