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Behind the Seen

Page 42

by Charles Koppelman


  SAN, 106, 114, 150, 184, 250

  San Francisco Bay Area, 25–29

  Santos, Henry, 66, 67, 100

  Sara, 126, 263–267, 304

  Saul Zaentz Film Center, 78, 91, 95–98, 104, 241

  Sausalito, 26, 88

  Saxton, Michael, 303

  scale, film vs. TV, 155–156

  “Scarlet Tide,” 296, 320

  Scary Movie, 259

  scene cards, 140–143, 175

  scenes

  cutting, 13, 169, 182, 198, 214–217, 261

  flipping polarity of, 268

  grouping, 174–175

  soundscapes for, 288

  transitions between, 239, 286

  transposing, 13

  Schalit, Larry, 103, 108

  Schoonmaker, Thelma, 51

  score. See music

  screenings. See preview screenings

  screenplays

  changing relationship with book/film, 267

  diminishing value of, 140

  Minghella’s approach to, 124

  time/space shifts in, 213

  script notes, 45–46, 114, 141

  script timing, 44, 140, 164

  scrubbing, 208

  Seale, John, 148, 158, 199, 272, 302–303

  selects roll, 150

  Serda, Tim, 67, 100

  Serrurier, Iwan, 50

  Shake, 250

  shared area network. See SAN

  Sheen, Martin, 261

  Shires, Walt, 100

  shooting ratio, 71, 143

  Simeone, Frank, x

  Skywalker Sound, 26

  Sliding Doors, 21

  “Snowflake” filmmaking, 332–333

  Soderbergh, Steve, 84, 329

  soft effects, 194

  sound conversion problems, 128, 133–134, 159, 184, 221

  sound design, 288–289

  sound editors, 33, 194, 226, 234

  sound effects, 226, 238, 239, 289

  sound mixers, 285–286, 289

  sound mixing, 237–244

  for Cold Mountain, 237–244, 287–296

  combining with film editing, 240, 287, 292–293

  complementing story with, 238

  components of, 238–239

  cost considerations, 286

  London facilities for, 237

  Murch’s awards for, 240

  planning for, 240

  role of film director in, 285–287, 292–293

  timing of, 286–287

  sound system, 4

  soundtracks

  defining character of, 238

  improvements in, 31

  mixing sounds for, 238. See also sound mixing

  and Murch’s “Law of Two-and-a Half,” 288–289, 295

  for preview screenings, 8

  and release prints, 9

  SR encoded, 9

  storage of, 8

  synchronizing with picture, 8, 13, 159, 285

  speakers, 4

  special effects, 230–231. See also visual effects

  speech, as “encoded” sound, 288

  Spielberg, Steven, vi, 140, 329

  splicing film, 8–9, 10, 11, 256

  split tracks, 239

  Stanley, Ralph, 296, 298, 299

  Star Trek, 101

  Star Wars, 26, 31

  Steenbeck, Wilhelm, 51

  Steenbeck editing machines, 51, 171

  Stein, Will, 150–153, 155, 274

  Sting, 311, 314, 320

  storytelling, 330

  streamer tracks, 241–242

  studio system paradigm, 328

  stuttering images, 157, 256

  subframes, 92

  subtitles, 316

  surround sound, 61, 239, 286

  synchronizing picture/sound, 8, 13, 159, 234, 285

  System 10. See OS X

  T

  talent agencies, 48

  Talented Mr. Ripley, The, 21, 32, 54, 275

  “tang” effect, 124–128, 174, 215, 263, 266

  “Tarry With Me,” 296

  Taylor, John, 100

  Teague, Captain, 213–214, 215–216, 268

  television networks, 327

  test screenings. See preview screenings

  theater audiences

  directing attention of, 295

  drawing into film, 262

  how Murch views, 18–20

  maintaining respect for, 262

  Murch on reaching, 322

  soliciting comments from, 268–270

  tailoring films to specific, 331–332

  Three Days of the Condor, 21

  THX-1138, 26, 33, 289

  time/space transitions, 211–213

  timecode, 100–101, 294

  tintype photographs, 134–135

  Titan, 234

  titles/credits, Cold Mountain, 246, 295, 316

  titling functions, Final Cut Pro, 316

  toilet scene (in The Conversation), 42

  Tootsie, 21

  Touch of Evil, ix, 31, 54, 297

  Toy Story, 86

  transitions, 211–213, 239, 286

  trial prints, 303

  Tribeca Film Center, 247

  trim bin, 144

  trims, 50, 143–144

  “Two-and-a-Half,” Murch’s Law of, 288–289, 295

  U

  Unbearable Lightness of Being, 12, 314

  United Artists, 21, 167–168

  United Kingdom, moviemaking community in, 187

  USC graduate film school, 26, 48, 327–328

  V

  “vacuum tube theory” of power/coherence, 18–20, 279

  Vaines, Colin, 270, 280, 312, 320

  Veasey, Reverend, 210, 213, 267

  Viacom, 6

  Vietnam War, 328

  violence, 262–263

  Virtual PC, 134

  visual effects, 230–231, 250, 254

  von Trier, Lars, 329

  W

  Wang, Wayne, 329

  Warner, Jack, 327

  Warner Brothers, 34, 327

  Way We Were, The, 21

  Weinstein, Bob, 263, 270, 309

  Weinstein, Harvey. See also Miramax Films

  and Cold Mountain “final cut,” 301

  and Cold Mountain final sound mix, 291–292, 312

  and Cold Mountain marketing campaign, 309–310

  and Cold Mountain preview screenings, 260, 277

  and last-minute cuts to films, 215

  and Miramax Films, 23

  and origins of Cold Mountain project, 168

  other Minghella/Murch projects with, 222

  Welles, Orson, ix, 31, 54

  Wenders, Wim, 329

  Wexler, Haskell, 49

  white noise, 288

  William Morris, 48

  Williams, Cindy, 38

  Winstone, Ray, 213

  Woodstock, 51

  workprints, 7–8

  X

  XML plug-in, 224–225, 229–230, 233, 235, 244–245

  Y

  Yared, Gabriel, 225, 298, 311

  Yeager, Chuck, 8

  Yerxa, Ron, 21, 22, 167, 228

  Z

  Zaentz, Saul, 26–27, 95–97, 168. See also Saul Zaentz Film Center

  Zellweger, Renée

  arrival at Black Cove Farm, 209, 210, 220, 223

  audience reactions to, 210, 270

  and Christmas party scene, 304

  and hairdo scene, 217

  Renée Zellweger’s performance as, 169

  and rooster scene, 260

  Zinneman, Fred, 32, 34

  zoetrope, 29

  Zoetrope Studios, 26, 34

  Zukor, Adolf, 327

 

 

 
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