Into It: Stock Sounds
For this Into It I’ll try something a little different: instead covering one topic and moving on to the next, this week begins a four-part series on stock sounds and canned emotion.Long before the...
View ArticleInto It: The Laugh Track
Part two of a four-part series on iconic stock sound effects.Laughter has a long history in drama: as far back as Shakespeare, plants in the audience initiated reactions with their own belly laughs and...
View ArticleInto It: The Scream
Part three of a four-part series on iconic stock sound effects.The scream might be the glue that holds together horror films, but its reach goes well beyond the genre. And since the early sound...
View ArticleInto It: Atmospheric Touch
Recycling audio has allowed directors to more easily create the worlds of their films. Just like in life, the sounds that influence the mood of a moment are often out of sight, off screen.Certain...
View ArticleInto It: Dark Christmas
Christmas celebrations are not all light and warm as we travel around the world.Christmas in America is warm and fuzzy, stuffed with Santa, reindeer and helpful elves. We get little exposure to the...
View ArticleInto It: Arcades
Since the first simple arcade games were developed in the late sixties, the video arcade has fought a war of innovation and marketing with home gaming.What’s called The Golden Age of arcades was...
View ArticleInto It: Barber Pole
The barber pole has come a long way to be stationed above old brick shops, to repeat and repeat its lonely spins. In fact, the barbers themselves have a strange past, their title once denoting a more...
View ArticleInto It: Colorful Noise
When we hear the word “noise,” we think annoyance and distraction. And that makes perfect sense. Noise is essentially interference, something that disrupts our experience with everything from radios...
View ArticleInto It: Stock Sounds
Andrew Bales begins a four-part series on stock sounds and canned emotion.Long before the luxury of recordings, stage performers created their own sounds to accompany productions. Copper sheets were...
View ArticleInto It: Laugh Track
Andrew Bales continues with part two of his four-part discussion of iconic stock sound effects.Laughter has a long history in drama: as far back as Shakespeare, plants in the audience initiated...
View ArticleInto It: The Scream
Andrew Bales continues with part three of his four-part look at iconic stock sound effects.The scream might be the glue that holds together horror films, but its reach goes well beyond the genre. And...
View ArticleInto It: Atmospheric Touch
Recycling audio has allowed directors to more easily create the worlds of their films. Just like in life, the sounds that influence the mood of a moment are often out of sight, off screen.Certain...
View ArticleInto It: Pop Tarts
Kellogg’s rushed Pop-Tarts onto the market in 1964, shortly after their competitor announcement a similar toaster snack release called Country Squares. Since then, the evolution of the Pop-Tart has...
View ArticleInto It: Pigments
Given the infinite access we’re afforded to color, it’s hard to imagine the importance its been given throughout history and the passion that has gone into its hunt.In the pursuit of vivid color, each...
View ArticleInto It: Crawlers
Since the Apollo missions of the sixties, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida has been home to an odd couple: a pair of crawler-transporters. Weighing in at six million pounds, their gargantuan metal...
View ArticleInto It: Dark Christmas
Christmas celebrations are not all light and warm as we travel around the world.Christmas in America is warm and fuzzy, stuffed with Santa, reindeer and helpful elves. We get little exposure to the...
View ArticleInto It: The Laugh Track
Part two of a four-part series on iconic stock sound effects.Laughter has a long history in drama: as far back as Shakespeare, plants in the audience initiated reactions with their own belly laughs and...
View ArticleInto It: The Scream
Part three of a four-part series on iconic stock sound effects.The scream might be the glue that holds together horror films, but its reach goes well beyond the genre. And since the early sound...
View ArticleInto It: Atmospheric Touch
Recycling audio has allowed directors to more easily create the worlds of their films. Just like in life, the sounds that influence the mood of a moment are often out of sight, off screen.Certain...
View ArticleInto It: Dark Christmas
Christmas celebrations are not all light and warm as we travel around the world.Christmas in America is warm and fuzzy, stuffed with Santa, reindeer and helpful elves. We get little exposure to the...
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