Your sound design reel won’t buy you a beer.
Time for another inspirational big-idea reminder from Game Sound Con, something I used to struggle with myself: your skills and expertise can’t hire you.
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Favorite feed: Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast by Defacto Sound
Twenty Thousand Hertz is a great, easy-to-listen-to podcast with stories and interviews about those hidden elements of sound and sound design throughout our world, the ones you might never have considered or even heard of before. The NBC chimes, the voice of Siri, the sounds of the cars we buy, the hum generated by a secret government project—lots of neat little explorations.
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Walter Murch and the rule of six.
Needs-no-introduction editor Walter Murch on six criteria by which to judge the worth, quality, and necessity of an edit.
A great article on a superb sound designer.
Here’s an excellent article in The Guardian by Jordan Kisner about veteran sound designer Skip Lievsay, whose credits include No Country For Old Men, The Big Lebowski, Waiting for “Superman”, Men In Black, Fargo, Silence of the Lambs, O Brother Where Art Thou?, and Goodfellas.