Mix Sound for Film Announces Program and Panels Mix magazine, in conjunction with host sponsor Sony Pictures Studios and event partners MPSE and CAS, has announced panel programming and the Immersive Sound Master Class Series for its one-day conference and exhibition, "Sound for Film: The Art of Sound Design: Music, Effects and Dialog," to be held September 26 on the Sony Pictures Entertainment lot in Culver City, Calif. Highlights of the day include a series of industry panels, divided into Music, Dialog, Effects and Mixing, held throughout the day in the Kim Novak Theatre. Next door, in the William Holden Theatre, event sponsors Dolby, DTS, Auro Technologies, Audio Intervisual Design and DUY will host Master Classes on Immersive Sound, from the design of facilities to playback for consumers. Dolby, JBL and Yamaha will also be presenting material on Immersive Sound for broadcast, cinema and small- to medium-sized mixing stages in the "Dolby Building" throughout the day.
The Mix Presents Sound for Film editorial panels are: PANEL 1: Music: Composing, Editing and Mixing Beyond 5.1
Presented by Formosa Group
Audiences don't necessarily react well to music moving around the room, and in many respects, 5.1 channels is perfectly fine for playing back score and source. But 7.1, 11.1 and the Immersive Sound formats can provide a remarkable musical experience with the right film, especially when integrated with the effects track. Find out how composers, music supervisors, scoring engineers, music editors and re-recording mixers are experimenting with music design to take advantage of playback beyond 5.1 Panel 2: A Dialog on Dialog: From Set to Screen
Presented by CAS
From the birth of the talkies in motion pictures, the role of sound has been used in the most creative and dynamic ways as a tool in the storytelling process. We bring together experts from production to post production who, over the last 30 years, have witnessed incredible and exciting growth and change in tools, procedures, time frames and expectations as they discuss the creative collaborations needed to bring the story to the audience. This lively, engaging and informative discussion takes us from the first day of production, as the production mixer lays the foundation of performance for our director and colleagues in post, right through to end release and gives us a look at the importance of the spoken word as we cover the state of the art and craft of dialog for motion picture and television. PANEL 3: Sound Effects: How Far Can You Go?
Presented by MPSE
Sound effects get a lot of attention in film sound writing and conferences—when we think of Immersive Sound, let's face it, we think about sound effects. But every piece of the audio track—field effects, hard fx, Foley, design, music and dialog—must still fit with the others. Find out how today's field recordists, supervising sound editors, sound designers and re-recording mixers are becoming ever more inventive, pushing the new Immersive Sound formats to the edge, while still maintaining the 5.1 mix and the integrity of the story. PANEL 4: The Mix: Immersive Sound, Film and Television
With the huge success of HBO, Showtime, Netflix and others, and with major film directors moving back and forth between features and cable/streaming, the lines are blurring between film and television production. Re-recording stages are more flexible, techniques are crossing over, and Immersive Sound is coming to television in a big way. In fact, it's already here. In this discussion, supervising sound editors and re-recording mixers talk about mixing for both the big and small screens. A complete Master Class Series description from Dolby, DTS, Auro, AID and DSpatial, will be released soon.
Previously Announced
 Noted sound designer/film mixer Mark Mangini of Formosa Features will deliver the keynote speech to open the special film sound event, "The Art of Sound Design: Music, Dialog and Effects," to be held September 26 on the Sony Pictures Entertainment lot in Culver City, Calif. Nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Sound editing, he has worked on such notable films as: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Gremlins, Die Hard, Star Trek, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Fifth Element, The Green Mile, Warrior and Jack the Giant Slayer. He is currently supervising the hotly anticipated Warner Bros. film Black Mass, based on the story of Whitey Bulger during his time in hiding.
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