For a movie such as Interstellar, many audio professionals are required in order to record
and create all of the sounds heard in the film.
Hi, I'm Mark Weingart in the production sound mixer for Interstellar.
Hi, I'm Richard King, sound designer for Interstellar.
Hi, I'm Greg Landaker, re-recording sound mixer, and here we are, made in Hollywood.
Here's a scene from Interstellar.
Go for main engine start, T minus 10.
We must confront the reality that nothing in our solar system can help us.
Can each of you tell me your titles again and what that entails, what kind of responsibilities
you had?
I'm Mark Weingart and I was the production sound mixer, so I recorded all the dialogue
on set on location with the movie, and then I gave it to these gentlemen.
I'm the sound designer, so myself and my team come up with all the sounds for the spaceship
and space and the wormhole and the black hole, and kind of evolve the building blocks
of the soundtrack, which we bring to the sound mix where we put everything together with
the music and the dialogue and the sound effects, and that's where Greg starts.
I work directly with Chris Nolan and become his hands and ears to his vision of what he
wants this movie to end up, so ours is to blend everything together to what you hear
finally in the movie.
Now you need to tell me what your plan is to save the world.
We're not meant to save the world, we're meant to leave it.
I feel like when people watch the movie, they don't necessarily realize that everything
that they're hearing doesn't happen on set, that a lot of it is added in later in post.
But that's the illusion we want to create, we want them to feel like it's all there
in the movie, it's all of a piece, it's not put together, but these are events that are
happening.
Nine.
I've got kids, professor.
How long have you gone?
Eight.
I'm asking you to trust me.
It's a really hard industry to break into, and if you are a teen not in Los Angeles,
if you're somewhere else like Ohio, what kind of steps should they be taking now if they
want to do what you're doing today?
Learn Pro Tools.
It's a integral part of our industry as far as a program that's based on editing, you
can film edit it, sound edit it.
Just get in to start making your own things, like I always told students that would come
to the stage and I'd talk to them and I'd sit there and say, here's a project for you.
Make a still shot of a window and design anything you want to go to that window.
There might be a car chase that goes by that window, there might be a fight outside that
window, there might be somebody snoring inside the room.
Make up your own thing and that will create your illusion to that still photograph.
