“The Invasion” touches down in theaters August 17th. Sound supervisor Richard Yawn handled the editorial. He supervised last year’s “Dreamgirls,” his second film with Director Bill Condon, (“Kinsey” was the first). Sound designer Bryan Watkins helped with the aural scare telegraphing on the film. Bryan heads up Gametracks, a game-sound sister company to Dane Davis’s LA based Danetracks, Inc. Long-time mix partners Gregg Rudloff and John T. Reitz mixed the show over at Warner Bros stage ten. The duo won the best Sound Oscar for their work on “The Matrix” with their recently retired third mixer David Cambell. Rounding the mix team out on “The Invasion” was Michael Herbick. Herbick, has been nominated five times for the best Sound Oscar including twice in 1995 for “Clear and Present Danger” and “Shawshank Redemption”. Mixers David Kelson and Mary H Ellis headed up the production sound dept. I read there was extensive re-shoots on the film so I believe each of the mixers represented the two different filming schedules. Both established mixers, Kelson is hot off this fall’s Owen Wilson led comedy “Drillbit Taylor” while Ellis helped the dirty south sound nastier in last year’s “ATL”. Fresh off this summer’s “Fantastic Four 2,” John Ottman composed for the film. There is a great little feature over at Soundtrack.Net on the scoring session.
CHECK BACK THIS WEEK FOR A Q AND A WITH SOUND SUPERVISOR RICHARD YAWN AND SOUND DESIGNER BRYAN WATKINS!
WARNER BROS DUB STAGE 10
SUPERVISING SOUND EDITOR: Richard Yawn
SOUND DESIGNER: Bryan Watkins
RE-RECORDING MIXER: John T. Reitz
RE-RECORDING MIXER: Gregg Rudloff
RE-RECORDING MIXER: Michael Herbick
PRODUCTION SOUND MIXER: David Kelson
PRODUCTION SOUND MIXER: Mary H Ellis
WB SCORING STAGE
COMPOSER: John Ottman
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