Hollywood Sound Design and Moviesound Newsletter

Acknowledgments

(Part 1)

Thanks to Prof. Vanessa Theme Ament, whose hard work, strong ethics, and artistic ideals were baked into every page of Moviesound Newsletter, and whose shared vision for a new textbook has come into focus as Hollywood Sound Design and Moviesound Newsletter. The original manuscript was titled The Change Room, which is a double entendre reference for film sound professionals. But what, literally (aside from the figurative depiction of a generational revolution in sound craftsmanship), is a change room? Every dub stage in Hollywood was outfitted with a little back-room utility space for editors to make last-minute adjustments to their tracks: a work bench; a Moviola; a crackling, buzzing “squawk box” amplifier; and a ...