How Do I...

Fulfill Sound Requirements?

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NAME: Paul Ottosson
TITLE: Sound designer
SELECTED CREDITS: Fury (2014); Zero Dark Thirty (2012); The Hurt Locker (2009); The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005); Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Like lighting and camera movement, sound design must serve a movie’s story. Award-winning sound designer, sound editor, and rerecording mixer Paul Ottosson has applied this philosophy to his work with major directors, including Kathryn Bigelow, Sam Raimi, and Roland Emmerich. Ottosson talks about his process in a video interview available only in the Chapter 10 Video Activity.

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Discover:

  • image What Ottosson first thinks about when he reads a script for a new project
  • image When and why he records some sound elements on location and others elsewhere
  • image What elements might be combined for a single sound effect