Walter Murch by jmcbride802

Walter Murch - IMDB

jmcbride8021 — 2024-02-07 09:38:22 UTC

Walter Murch has been editing sound in Hollywood since starting on Francis Ford Coppola's film The Rain People (1969).

Walter Murch - MUBI

jmcbride8021 — 2024-02-07 10:01:03 UTC

“I always try to be metaphoric as much as I can and not to be literal. When you’re presented with something that doesn’t quite resolve on a normal level, that’s what makes the audience go deeper.”

Awards + Nominations - IMDB

jmcbride8021 — 2024-02-07 10:04:43 UTC

Premium Beat - Walter Murch and the Criteria for How to Edit a Film

jmcbride8021 — 2024-02-07 10:07:55 UTC

You have to be pretty good at your job as an editor and sound designer for Roger Ebert to call you “the most respected film editor and sound designer in the modern cinema.” But the reputation of Walter Murch as one of the greatest editors of all time is absolutely earned and true. Not only has he received three Academy Awards for best editing (with nine nominations in total), but he’s also been hugely influential in film editing function and theory.

Premium Beat - Walter Murch and the Criteria for How to Edit a Film

jmcbride8021 — 2024-02-07 10:12:04 UTC

In fact, Murch got his start in sound mixing and design. And, in many ways, he might even be more renowned for his sound design techniques and innovations than his editing ones.

Walter Murch 1st Movie - The Rain People (1969)

jmcbride8021 — 2024-02-07 10:17:08 UTC

Long Island housewife Natalie Ravenna leaves her husband sleeping at home and sets off on a road trip in a family station wagon. She visits her parents who are quite upset with her.

Walter Murch: On Editing - BAFTA Guru

jmcbride8021 — 2024-02-07 10:31:24 UTC

The Film & Sound Editor behind Apocalypse Now & The English Patient reveals the relationship between editing and dance, the importance of rhythm - "like telling a good joke" - and how digital film has transformed his work.

Notes

jmcbride8021 — 2024-06-04 08:17:35 UTC

Walter Murch talks about hearing "musique concrete" in an interview and it influenced the way he designed the sound for The Rain People and THX1138. According to Britannica (2024), Musique Concrete - Concrete Music - is an experimental technique of musical composition using recorded sounds as raw material. The technique was developed about 1948 by the French composer Pierre Schaeffer and his associates at the Studio d’Essai (“Experimental Studio”) of the French radio system.

Rain People

jmcbride8021 — 2024-06-04 08:31:32 UTC

In the Rain People, it is where Murch kick-started his career as a sound person. This is where he learned DIY foley sounds and how to use them to his advantage on this film and future films he will work on. By being in a good role in the Hollywood industry, this leads him to become an editor as well in the future.

Goodfather I

jmcbride8021 — 2024-06-04 09:26:52 UTC

Walter Murch was the Sounds Effect Supervisor for this film however, Murch was not in the LA Union at that time so the credit on the film did not go to him. He was also named on IMDb as a Pre-Production consultant. This is a big job because it is the planning process and execution of every task that must take place before production begins.

Godfather II

jmcbride8021 — 2024-06-04 09:27:07 UTC

Within this second part of the Godfather, Walter Murch was in these two parts - Sound Montage and Sound Re-Recordist. A "Montage" in film is "a process of creating a new image, piece of film or musical piece by selecting a number of smaller images and putting them together to create a new composite", According to Homework.Study.com. And by adding sound onto into the equation, you are, in basic terms, piecing a certain type of music and a piece of film together as a Sound Montage.

A Re-Recordist is the process by which the audio track of a film or video production is created. An Audio re-recording is often called a re-recording of music.

Apocalypse Now

jmcbride8021 — 2024-06-04 09:27:19 UTC

Murch worked as a Sound Montage and Design, Re-Recordist and as a Sound Designer. Sound Montage is "a process of creating a new image, piece of film or musical piece by selecting a number of smaller images and putting them together to create a new composite", According to Homework.Study.com. And by adding sound onto into the equation, you are, in basic terms, piecing a certain type of music and a piece of film together.

A Re-Recordist is the process by which the audio track of a film or video production is created. An Audio re-recording is often called a re-recording of music. And a Sound Designer is how filmmakers use components like sound effects or SFX sound design, mixing, Foley sounds, dialogue and music. This helps filmmakers in editing to flesh out the aural world of a film to enhance the mood, atmosphere, and/or tone.

Godfather III

jmcbride8021 — 2024-06-04 09:27:37 UTC

In the Godfather Part III, Walter Murch is one of three Editors and a re-recording mixer. Re-recording Mixers are post-production audio engineers that balance a lot of background noise so you do not hear it unless they put some pre-recorded ambient sound onto the timeline. They also do dialogue, music and sound effects to create the final audio track for a movie, TV show to advertisement.

Film editors assemble footage of feature films, television shows, documentaries, and industrials into a seamless end product. They manipulate plot, score, sound, and graphics to refine the overall story into a continuous and enjoyable whole

Godfather I

jmcbride8021 — 2024-06-04 09:29:24 UTC

The Godfather trilogy, chronicling the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando) from 1945 to 1955. It focuses on the transformation of his youngest son, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss.

Godfather II

jmcbride8021 — 2024-06-04 09:29:38 UTC

The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.

Godfather III

jmcbride8021 — 2024-06-04 09:30:10 UTC

Follows Michael Corleone, now in his 60s, as he seeks to free his family from crime and find a suitable successor to his empire.

Apocalypse Now

jmcbride8021 — 2024-06-04 09:31:26 UTC

The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), who is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a renegade Special Forces officer who is accused of murder and presumed insane.

jmcbride8021 — 2024-06-05 08:27:45 UTC