"Do not apply much control as to leave no room for the unexpected "
Friday, November 12, 2010
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Mark Berger, mixing sound supervisor and editor, with four Hollywood Oscar
"born from mistakes new ways"
interview "The Counter" from "La Vanguardia" IMA SANCHÍS - 12/11 / 2010
I have 67 years. I was born in San Francisco and I live in Berkeley (California). I've been married 34 years and have two children. U.S. is a misallocation of resources: 1% accounts for 80% of resources. I believe God is a construct of the human brain Experimental Surgery Degree.
Yes, open brains of mice.
For a movie that ...
chance. To avoid going to war in Vietnam and the world know I joined the Peace Corps program: an alternative social service in another country for university graduates.
Did operator had to do sound?
Yes, in an educational television program for children in Colombia. After two and a half years I returned to Los Ángelespara do my postgraduate academic life I was bored, so I kept making sound technician on documentaries.
Can you give it?
had an innate ability, knew how. It's part of my being, I have always preferred to listen to watch.
encountered Coppola How?
were the 70's and in Northern California Coppola coalesced around a whole generation of filmmakers (Saul Zaentz, George Lucas ...) who were against the great industry of Hollywood and their way of doing things and have wanted to be free. I offered to work with him. The Godfather II was my first feature film.
What new chance?
Everything was about being in the right place at the right time, with the right knowledge and have great luck.
... Previously you had a bend in her life.
But I'm always interested in sound. At home we had no television until I was 8 years old, so I went to bed with a huge radio hidden under the covers so that my mother did not discover me.
They say that children who do not sleep do not grow.
You see it is not my case. I grew up and developed the ability to form pictures in my head and respond emotionally to sounds. Cowboys listened novels: steps, gallops, closing doors, punching. I got into the story through sound, and I do not know which came first, the sound or feeling. Developed together.
finished winning four Oscars.
was the golden age of sound in Northern California. For the directors of that movement, have their own sound studio was the best, all it built.
What has been important to you?
All the key moments of my life have been the result of following my intuition and my heart. When I joined the Peace Corps around me told me: "Why do you want your career to throw overboard!?".
understand.
They were thinking of a normal life with well-established stages, but I wanted to do something else and I have been fortunate to discover my talent and appreciate that others know and have learned along the way a lot of things.
Tell me.
If you're all very planned, miss opportunities for change in fortune will visit: directions and new people. Always be alert and catch the flight opportunities, trust your instincts but do not know where it will take.
We are here to learn.
... And knowing, you know yourself, by confronting uncertainty discover your talents, and that's more important to follow a path. "Do what you feel like," I tell my students.
Risky.
sometimes make mistakes mixing: a louder sound than expected or that there should be, and it turns out is perfect! That's another rule of my life: do not exercise as much control as to leave no room for the unexpected. If things are looser, less rigid, creativity can be expressed. Born errors of new roads.
Berger Any other law?
That sense of humor is worth more than any bad mood justified. What happens to us is part of our lives: you can respond with a pessimistic or optimistic, but you should be aware that you can choose the answer.
What do you choose?
With a sense of humor can go through life enjoying everything. I am a cynical optimist: I always believe that things will be alright but for the wrong reasons.
How many times you watch a movie?
Five thousand times, and I will never see my own films to the cinema because there is a speaker that does not work or the sound is more equalized, and it really hurts. To my friends, especially Susan, do not like going to the movies with me because as soon as the movie starts I'm already knocking on the door of the projection room. But guess what?
What?
What is not worth the film or sound but working with people: the atmosphere of creativity, movement of ideas, interaction between the director, producers, editors. Manage the exchange, maintaining a climate of openness which everyone feels free to make suggestions, no egos to dominate, that's 60% of my work.
Tell me, why is so loud the sound in the cinema?
The multiplex down the sound to the next room heard no shots and, knowing this, the directors, who want the sound sits in the belly, make the mixing high. I'll take the caps.
Yes, open brains of mice.
For a movie that ...
chance. To avoid going to war in Vietnam and the world know I joined the Peace Corps program: an alternative social service in another country for university graduates.
Did operator had to do sound?
Yes, in an educational television program for children in Colombia. After two and a half years I returned to Los Ángelespara do my postgraduate academic life I was bored, so I kept making sound technician on documentaries.
Can you give it?
had an innate ability, knew how. It's part of my being, I have always preferred to listen to watch.
encountered Coppola How?
were the 70's and in Northern California Coppola coalesced around a whole generation of filmmakers (Saul Zaentz, George Lucas ...) who were against the great industry of Hollywood and their way of doing things and have wanted to be free. I offered to work with him. The Godfather II was my first feature film.
What new chance?
Everything was about being in the right place at the right time, with the right knowledge and have great luck.
... Previously you had a bend in her life.
But I'm always interested in sound. At home we had no television until I was 8 years old, so I went to bed with a huge radio hidden under the covers so that my mother did not discover me.
They say that children who do not sleep do not grow.
You see it is not my case. I grew up and developed the ability to form pictures in my head and respond emotionally to sounds. Cowboys listened novels: steps, gallops, closing doors, punching. I got into the story through sound, and I do not know which came first, the sound or feeling. Developed together.
finished winning four Oscars.
was the golden age of sound in Northern California. For the directors of that movement, have their own sound studio was the best, all it built.
What has been important to you?
All the key moments of my life have been the result of following my intuition and my heart. When I joined the Peace Corps around me told me: "Why do you want your career to throw overboard!?".
understand.
They were thinking of a normal life with well-established stages, but I wanted to do something else and I have been fortunate to discover my talent and appreciate that others know and have learned along the way a lot of things.
Tell me.
If you're all very planned, miss opportunities for change in fortune will visit: directions and new people. Always be alert and catch the flight opportunities, trust your instincts but do not know where it will take.
We are here to learn.
... And knowing, you know yourself, by confronting uncertainty discover your talents, and that's more important to follow a path. "Do what you feel like," I tell my students.
Risky.
sometimes make mistakes mixing: a louder sound than expected or that there should be, and it turns out is perfect! That's another rule of my life: do not exercise as much control as to leave no room for the unexpected. If things are looser, less rigid, creativity can be expressed. Born errors of new roads.
Berger Any other law?
That sense of humor is worth more than any bad mood justified. What happens to us is part of our lives: you can respond with a pessimistic or optimistic, but you should be aware that you can choose the answer.
What do you choose?
With a sense of humor can go through life enjoying everything. I am a cynical optimist: I always believe that things will be alright but for the wrong reasons.
How many times you watch a movie?
Five thousand times, and I will never see my own films to the cinema because there is a speaker that does not work or the sound is more equalized, and it really hurts. To my friends, especially Susan, do not like going to the movies with me because as soon as the movie starts I'm already knocking on the door of the projection room. But guess what?
What?
What is not worth the film or sound but working with people: the atmosphere of creativity, movement of ideas, interaction between the director, producers, editors. Manage the exchange, maintaining a climate of openness which everyone feels free to make suggestions, no egos to dominate, that's 60% of my work.
Tell me, why is so loud the sound in the cinema?
The multiplex down the sound to the next room heard no shots and, knowing this, the directors, who want the sound sits in the belly, make the mixing high. I'll take the caps.
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has four Oscar for innovation in audio applications now enApocalypse (Francis Ford Coppola), Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman), ; Amadeus (Milos Forman) and The English Patient (Anthony Minghella). "I can see someone and not remember his name or his face, but hearing his voice and close my eyes, I recognize. The voice for me has many more images than the image itself, and gives me much more information than the words. "Berger is endless: 150 films and a thousand stories to tell. is a privilege to listen to film school in Barcelona Bande à Part, where he teaches a seminar. Today will give a talk to members of the Academy of Cinema.
If you want to know some of his tricks sound in his most famous films click on the following address:
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