Videos

A theory of film music

Description: Tony Zhou’s amazing video-essay on the “Marvel Symphonic Universe” caused a lot of controversy online. This excellent video response by Daniel Golding is titled “A theory of film music” and poises the question: “How original has film music REALLY been? Worth the watch!

The Social Network – Designing Dialogue

Description: This video-essay by the great Lewis Bond was recently uploaded to his Channel Criswell. As usual, he has a very fast-paced speaking style, so perhaps a second viewing is in order. That being said, it is a very well-structured exposition on the function of dialog within a film.

Composition in Storytelling

Description: In this video-essay uploaded to his Channel Criswell, Lewis Bond talks about composition as an integral part of visual storytelling in film. Like all of his videos, this one is truly informative and definitely worth a watch!

Constructive Editing in Robert Bresson’s “Pickpocket”

Description: Film theorist and teacher David Bordwell authorized us to translate and subtitle this video about the editing technique used in the classic Bresson film “Pickpocket”.
It’s not a video about film sound, but rather about editing and the language of film.
The video was subtitled by Pablo Gutiérrez.

Hollywood Scores and Soundtracks: What do they sound like?

Description: This is a complementary video to “The Marvel Symphonic Universe”. It’s part of Tony Zhou’s amazing investigation into the world of temp music. You can access the original video in his YouTube Channel, it is definitely worth taking investigating!

The Marvel Symphonic Universe

Description: In Tony Zhou’s excellent YouTube Channel, we found this incredible video-essay. What truly amazed us was the amount of investigation needed to make it; in other words, had we been asked to do a similar investigation we wouldn’t have been able to come across a tenth of the examples and materials that he uses to get his point across. Please, visit his channel – and if you can - subscribe, he truly deserves it!

My Voyage to Italy – Part 1

Description: This is the first of a two part documentary where Martin Scorsese shows us how his childhood was impacted by watching italian cinema on the television in his childhood home. His analysis is retrospective and it gives us great insight into the essence of what makes him the director he is today. Truly worth watching!

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My Voyage to Italy – Part 2

Description: This is the second of a two part documentary where Martin Scorsese shows us how his childhood was impacted by watching italian cinema on the television in his childhood home. His analysis is retrospective and it gives us great insight into the essence of what makes him the director he is today. Truly worth watching!

(Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use." I do not own the rights to this movie excerpt, they belong to BFI, I am using the clip for critique and comment in a non-profit manner for educational fair use.)

Children of Men – Don’t Ignore the Background

Description: In Evan Puschak’s YouTube Channel we discovered this very interesting video-essay, which we considered worth sharing.
Translation and subtitling were made by Tomás Ramos, and corrections/edits by Pablo Gutiérrez.
You can watch the original video here.

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In The Mood For Love – Frames Within Frames

Description: In Evan Puschak’s YouTube Channel we discovered this very interesting video-essay, which we considered worth sharing.
Translation and subtitling were made by Gabriel Cominotti, and corrections/edits by Pablo Gutiérrez.
You can watch the original video here.

(Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use." I do not own the rights to this movie excerpt, they belong to BFI, I am using the clip for critique and comment in a non-profit manner for educational fair use.)

La Haine – An Introduction with Jodie Foster

Description: Jodie faster delivers an excellent introduction to the French movie “La Haine”. Since she is a very cultivated and intelligent actress/director, her opinions are truly worth listening to. They really do shed a light on many of the most important aspects of this transcendent work of cinema history.

Interview with Walter Murch – Part 1 of 3

Description: First of a three part interview with Walter Murch, by Benjamin B, who has a very interesting YouTube Channel, worth checking out!

Interview with Walter Murch – Part 2 of 3

Description: Second of a three part interview with Walter Murch, by Benjamin B, who has a very interesting YouTube Channel, worth checking out!

Interview with Walter Murch – Part 3 of 3

Description: Third of a three part interview with Walter Murch, by Benjamin B, who has a very interesting YouTube Channel, worth checking out!

La Haine – So Far, So Good

Description: Lewis Bond has a wonderful YouTube Channel called “Channel Criswell”. In it, he uploads video-essays where he analyzes film and the language of cinematography in general. In this case, he does a brief study of the very underrated French masterpiece “La Haine”, directed by French actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz.

Colour In Storytelling

Description: In Lewis Bond’s YouTube Channel we discovered this very interesting video-essay on the use of color in film. We asked for his permission to translate and subtitle it into Spanish but never got an answer.
His channel, under the moniker Channel Criswell, is dedicated to the analysis of cinematic discourse, and even though in this case the video is not about our area of expertise (sound), we find it fascinating that other fields are also trying to find theoretical coherence in film. It is exactly what we try to translate when working on sound.
You can watch the original video here.
A special thanks to Pablo Gutiérrez, for the very thoughtful translation.

(Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use." I do not own the rights to this movie excerpt, they belong to BFI, I am using the clip for critique and comment in a non-profit manner for educational fair use.)

City of God – The Open World Movie

Description: In Lewis Bond’s YouTube Channel we discovered this very interesting video-essay on the Brazilian movie “City of God”. We asked for his permission to translate and subtitle it into Spanish but never got an answer.
His channel, under the moniker Channel Criswell, is dedicated to the analysis of cinematic discourse, and even though in this case the video is not about our area of expertise (sound), we find it fascinating that other fields are also trying to find theoretical coherence in film. It is exactly what we try to translate when working on sound.
You can watch the original video here.
A special thanks to Pablo Gutiérrez, for the very thoughtful translation.

(Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use." I do not own the rights to this movie excerpt, they belong to BFI, I am using the clip for critique and comment in a non-profit manner for educational fair use.)

Immersive Sound - Effects Editing And Mixing

Description: This video (watch the original here) was produced by SoundWorks Collection and Mix Magazine. When we saw it we felt it was worth sharing amongst all of us involved in the spanish-speaking sound industry. In this particular video we have some of the most world-renowned sound designers, and effects editors/mixers. Some of the terminology used is for the more knowledgeable on the subject, so in the video description we included a small Glossary in spanish for those who would like to follow along! Spanish subtitles were made by Pablo Gutiérrez and Matías Vilaro.

(Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use." I do not own the rights to this movie excerpt, they belong to BFI, I am using the clip for critique and comment in a non-profit manner for educational fair use.)

Immersive Sound – Music and Dialogue

Description: This video (watch the original here) was produced by SoundWorks Collection and Mix Magazine. When we saw it we felt it was worth sharing amongst all of us involved in the spanish-speaking sound industry. In this particular video we have some of the most world-renowned music, production sound mixers, and dialogue editors. Some of the terminology used is for the more knowledgeable on the subject, so in the video description we included a small Glossary in spanish for those who would like to follow along! Spanish subtitles were made by Pablo Gutiérrez and Matías Vilaro.

(Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use." I do not own the rights to this movie excerpt, they belong to BFI, I am using the clip for critique and comment in a non-profit manner for educational fair use.)

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

Part 1 of 3

Description: Part 1 of 3 of this wonderful documentary. In this case, not about film sound, but rather, about the history of American Cinema and its influence on director Martin Scorsese.

(Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use." I do not own the rights to this movie excerpt, they belong to BFI, I am using the clip for critique and comment in a non-profit manner for educational fair use.)

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

Part 2 of 3

Description: Part 2 of 3 of this wonderful documentary. In this case, not about film sound, but rather, about the history of American Cinema and its influence on director Martin Scorsese.

(Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use." I do not own the rights to this movie excerpt, they belong to BFI, I am using the clip for critique and comment in a non-profit manner for educational fair use.)

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

Part 3 of 3

Description: Part 3 of 3 of this wonderful documentary. In this case, not about film sound, but rather, about the history of American Cinema and its influence on director Martin Scorsese.

(Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use." I do not own the rights to this movie excerpt, they belong to BFI, I am using the clip for critique and comment in a non-profit manner for educational fair use.)

Music in Film - The Big Score - Part 1 of 3

Description: This is the first of three very good BBC programs on music in film.
Who informed me of the existence of this series was Mariano Chaves.
Spanish subtitles made by Gabriel Sigillo.

Music in Film - Pop in Film - Part 2 of 3

Description: This is the second of three very good BBC programs on music in film.
Who informed me of the existence of this series was Mariano Chaves.
Spanish subtitles made by Gabriel Sigillo.

Music in Film - New Frontiers - Part 3 of 3

Description: This is the last of three very good BBC programs on music in film.
Who informed me of the existence of this series was Mariano Chaves.
Spanish subtitles made by Gabriel Sigillo.

Drive - The Quadrant System

Description: We found this video on Tony Zhou's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/everyframeapainting.
I found it very interesting and instructive. I asked him permission to put subtitles in Spanish and he only asked me to name the origin of the video. So Tony Zhou, thank you very much.
Subtitles made by Pablo Gutierrez.

David Fincher - The other way is wrong

Description: We found this video on Tony Zhou's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/everyframeapainting.
I found it very interesting and instructive. I asked him permission to put subtitles in Spanish and he only asked me to name the origin of the video. So Tony Zhou, thank you very much.
Subtitles made by Pablo Gutierrez.

Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement

Description: We found this video on Tony Zhou's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/everyframeapainting.
I found it very interesting and instructive. I asked him permission to put subtitles in Spanish and he only asked me to name the origin of the video. So Tony Zhou, thank you very much.
Subtitles made by Pablo Gutierrez.

The Foley Grail - 1 of 13 - Foley, FX y ADR

Description: This video is the first of 13 accompanying the book The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation by Vanessa Theme Ament (Focal Press).
Is not that common to find such a serious material on the issue of Foley.
This is done by a professional Foley Artist.
I recommend it.
The subtitled in Spanish was made by Gabriel Sigillo.

The Foley Grail - 2 of 13 - Clothing Friction

Description: This video is the second of 13 accompanying the book The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation by Vanessa Theme Ament (Focal Press).
Is not that common to find such a serious material on the issue of Foley.
This is done by a professional Foley Artist.
In this video she talks about "Clothing Friction".
I recommend it.
The subtitled in Spanish was made by Gabriel Sigillo.

The Foley Grail - 3 of 13 - Continuity in editing

Description: This video is the third of 13 accompanying the book The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation by Vanessa Theme Ament (Focal Press).
Is not that common to find such a serious material on the issue of Foley.
This is done by a professional Foley Artist.
In this video Vanessa talks about the problem of "lack of continuity (rhythm) caused by image editing".
I recommend it.
The subtitled in Spanish was made by Gabriel Sigillo.

The Foley Grail - 4 of 13 - Dance

Description: This video is the fourth of 13 accompanying the book The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation by Vanessa Theme Ament (Focal Press).
Is not that common to find such a serious material on the issue of Foley.
This is done by a professional Foley Artist.
In this part Vanessa talks about the cases where there's dance.
I recommend it.
The subtitled in Spanish was made by Gabriel Sigillo.

The Foley Grail - 5 of 13 - Horses, Tumbrils, Gallop

Description: This video is the fifth of 13 accompanying the book The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation by Vanessa Theme Ament (Focal Press).
Is not that common to find such a serious material on the issue of Foley.
This is done by a professional Foley Artist.
In this part Vanessa talks about the cases where there're Horses, Tumbrils and Gallop.
I recommend it.
The subtitled in Spanish was made by Gabriel Sigillo.

The Foley Grail - 6 of 13 - Resonance, barefoot and gun in ventilation

Description: This video is the sixth of 13 accompanying the book The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation by Vanessa Theme Ament (Focal Press).
Is not that common to find such a serious material on the issue of Foley.
This is done by a professional Foley Artist.
In this part Vanessa talks about the cases where there're resonances, bare feet and a gun falling on a ventilation duct.
I recommend it.
The subtitled in Spanish was made by Gabriel Sigillo.

The Foley Grail - 7 of 13 - Effects or Foley

Description: This video is the seventh of 13 accompanying the book The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation by Vanessa Theme Ament (Focal Press).
Is not that common to find such a serious material on the issue of Foley.
This is done by a professional Foley Artist.
In this video Vanessa talks about the distinction between effects, contributed and edited by Fx and Foley editor.
I recommend it.
The subtitled in Spanish was made by Gabriel Sigillo.

The Foley Grail - 8 of 13 - Sound subjectivity

Description: This video is the eighth of 13 accompanying the book The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation by Vanessa Theme Ament (Focal Press).
Is not that common to find such a serious material on the issue of Foley.
This is done by a professional Foley Artist.
In this video Vanessa talks about the sound subjectivity.
I recommend it.
The subtitled in Spanish was made by Gabriel Sigillo.

The Foley Grail - 9 of 13 - There isn't rules

Description: This video is the nineth of 13 accompanying the book The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation by Vanessa Theme Ament (Focal Press).
Is not that common to find such a serious material on the issue of Foley.
This is done by a professional Foley Artist.
Vanessa talks in this video that there are no rules. All is possible. Or "Why not?".
I recommend it.
The subtitled in Spanish was made by Gabriel Sigillo.

The Foley Grail - 10 of 13 - Footsteps and Sand

Description: This video is the tenth of 13 accompanying the book The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation by Vanessa Theme Ament (Focal Press).
Is not that common to find such a serious material on the issue of Foley.
This is done by a professional Foley Artist.
In this part Vanessa talks about footsteps on sand.
I recommend it.
The subtitled in Spanish was made by Gabriel Sigillo.

The Foley Grail - 11 of 13 - Footsteps

Description: This video is the eleventh of 13 accompanying the book The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation by Vanessa Theme Ament (Focal Press).
Is not that common to find such a serious material on the issue of Foley.
This is done by a professional Foley Artist.
In this part Vanessa talks about footsteps.
I recommend it.
The subtitled in Spanish was made by Gabriel Sigillo.

The Foley Grail - 12 of 13 - Western Schools

Description: This video is the twelfth of 13 accompanying the book The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation by Vanessa Theme Ament (Focal Press).
Is not that common to find such a serious material on the issue of Foley.
This is done by a professional Foley Artist.
In this part Vanessa talks about the Schools of Foley from the West (Los Angeles and San Francisco, specially).
I recommend it.
The subtitled in Spanish was made by Gabriel Sigillo.

The Foley Grail - 13 of 13 - What the story needs. Paper

Description: This video is the thirteenth of 13 accompanying the book The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation by Vanessa Theme Ament (Focal Press).
Is not that common to find such a serious material on the issue of Foley.
This is done by a professional Foley Artist.
In this part Vanessa talks about "what are the needs for the story that is being told" and the problem of the movement and noise of papers.
I recommend it.
The subtitled in Spanish was made by Gabriel Sigillo.

Lon Bender - Sound Supervisor of the movie "Drive"

Description: Pablo Gutierrez told me about this video. I found it very good. I asked him if I could put subtitles in Spanish on it.
I think it's worth seeing.

Jeff Wexler - Charla

Description: Encontramos este video en http://www.lasoundgroup.com.
Pedimos permiso para subtitularlo al español y finalmente nos lo dieron.
Jeff Wexler es uno de los mejores Jefes de Sonido Directo de USA. Tiene un sitio web que alberga uno de los mejores foros de discusión relativos a la captura de sonido directo (http://jwsoundgroup.net).
El Los Angeles Sound Group le pidió de una charla. Aquí está.
Subtitulado al Español hecho por Gonzalo Matijas.

How we did the sound of Wild Tales - 1 of 4 - English Subs

(Part 1 of 4)

Description: This is the first part of the lecture we gave at CAPER 2014.
The topic here is Production Sound by Javier Farina the film's Production Sound Mixer.
The lecture was done in spanish. We added english subs.
Translation done by Gonzalo Matijas.

How we did the sound of Wild Tales - 2 of 4 - English Subs

(Part 2 of 4)

Description: Second part of the lecture we did at CAPER 2014.
The subject is sound design given by Gonzalo Matijas.
The lecture was done in spanish. We added english subs.
Translation done by Gonzalo Matijas.

How We did the sound of Wild Tales - 3 of 4 - English Subs

(Part 3 of 4)

Description: This is the third part of the lecture we gave at CAPER 2014.
Gustavo Santaolalla told us in a video his relationship with "wild stories". Then an example of basic edition of music.
The lecture was done in spanish. We added english subs.
Translation done by Gonzalo Matijas.

How We did the sound of Wild Tales - 4 of 4 - English Subs

(Part 4 of 4)

Description: This is part four of the lecture we gave at CAPER 2014.
Here we spoke a bit about ADR.
Note: The Dialogue Editor was Nahuel Palenque. The tasks of dialogue edition were so laborious and dense that another editor, Matías Vilaro, was in charge of ADR edition alone, so Nahuel was not overburdened.

The lecture was done in spanish. We added english subs.
Translation done by Gonzalo Matijas.

How we did the sound of VOLEY - 1 of 3 - English Subs

(Part 1 of 3)

Description: First part of the lecture we gave at CAPER 2014 about VOLEY, the movie directed by Martín Piroyansky.
In this part Rubén Piputto speaks about his role as Production Sound Mixer.
The lecture was done in spanish. We added english subs.
Translation done by Gonzalo Matijas.

How we did the sound of VOLEY - 2 of 3 - English Subs

(Part 2 of 3)

Description: Second part of the lecture we did at CAPER 2014.
The theme here was Foley done in the very same location where it was filmed the movie.
The lecture was done in spanish. We added english subs.
Translation done by Gonzalo Matijas.

How we did the sound of VOLEY - 3 of 3 - English Subs

(Part 3 of 3)

Description: Third part of the lecture we did at CAPER 2014.
Questions and answers.
The lecture was done in spanish. We added english subs.
Translation done by Gonzalo Matijas.

La clase: Mauricio Kartun

Description: Programa "La Clase" de Carlos Ares

The Art of silence - Martin Scorsese

Description: by Tony Zhou

Interview with Alfred Hitchcock

Description: From the TV show Telescope, with Fletcher Markle

Interview with Randy Thom

Description: by aniSecond Video

Les Nuances de la Voix

Description: by film director Gérard Corbiau

Simon Hayes: Sound Mini Masterclass

Description: The original video belongs to BAFTA GURU.
Thank you BAFTA GURU.

Walter Murch: On Editing

Description: The original video belongs to BAFTA GURU.
Thank you BAFTA GURU.

How we did the sound of Underdogs

(Part 1 of 9)

Description: Voice Recordings

How we did the sound of Underdogs

(Part 2 of 9)

Description: Draft

How we did the sound of Underdogs

(Part 3 of 9)

Description: Reels

How we did the sound of Underdogs

(Part 4 of 9)

Description: Final Images

How we did the sound of Underdogs

(Part 5 of 9)

Description: Foreign Versions

How we did the sound of Underdogs

(Part 6 of 9)

Description: Foley & "Monkeys"

How we did the sound of Underdogs

(Part 7 of 9)

Description: Music

How we did the sound of Underdogs

(Part 8 of 9)

Description: Statistics

How we did the sound of Underdogs

(Part 9 of 9)

Description: Questions

Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures

(Lesson 1 of 5)

Description: Lesson 1: Organization

Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures

(Lesson 2 of 5)

Description: Lesson 2: Basic Transitions

Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures

(Lesson 3 of 5)

Description: Lesson 3: Using Reverse Room Tone