Randy thom interview: part 1

So I found this interview of Randy Thom who is one of the best sound designers in my book as well. His works include forest gump, flight, how to train your dragon, coralline, bolt, Madagascar and many many more! Like always feel free to view his extensive list of works on IMDB to find out all the films he has worked on.

So this interview I found he talks about a lot of things, which is why I have to break this down into about 3 parts. Oh the name of the interview is designing a film for sound, you can find it here, you should definitely read it whenever anyone has the chance to.

One thing that he talks about that’s really interesting is how sound can influence the picture as well as vice versa how picture influences sound. What he means by this(also taking other aspects of the interview in context) is that you cannot create a great film thinking that the picture side is its own entity compared to the sound side. They should be influencing each other within one another; he uses the films stars and apocalypse now as an example of sound and picture influencing each other. In an earlier post I wrote about the scene in apocalypse now that had the helicopters flying into the village, that scene is a perfect example of both picture and sound being equal aspects of the film, without the other the scene would not make sense or would not have the same emotion or context that it gave.