Friday, April 20, 2007

Randy Thom - Skywalker Sound


Randy Thom has been part of Robert Zemeckis' core creative team ever since Forrest Gump (1994). Through his career Thom has worked with such top Hollywood talents as Walter Murch, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg. Thom has received two Academy Awards:

#1 'The Right Stuff' (Best Sound)

['The Right Stuff' original trailer, 1983]

#2 'The Incredibles' (Best Achievement in Sound Editing)

['The Incredibles' original trailer, 2004]

Randy Thom talked about creating sound for 'The Incredibles' in the following interviews:

#1 Mix Magazine
#2 sfgate.com

"My approach to the art is almost always to take something from the past and put an interesting twist on it. Young sound designers, I think, often get caught up in the idea of making a sound that's unlike anything anybody has ever heard before. But that's really hopeless. It also isn't very useful, because a sound needs a frame of reference."

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