The Sound & Music of the Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once
Master Class: The Sound & Music of the Daniels’
Everything Everywhere All at Once
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2022
2:00PM – 5:00PM (PDT)
Music and sound design are two of the most powerful tools for filmmakers to tell their stories. In this Master Class centered around The Daniels’ independent hit, Everything Everywhere All At Once, we explore how these elements work together to communicate tone and emotion and build a unique and fantastical world.
Join Glenn Kiser, Director of the Dolby Institute, and accomplished composer, Peter Golub, who will moderate a conversation with Everything Everywhere All At Once directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, re-recording mixer and supervising sound editor, Brent Kiser, sound designer and sound effects editor, Andrew Twite, and Ryan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia and Ian Chang, the three members of the band, Son Lux, who composed the original, spellbinding score. In this live, free, interactive session, they’ll discuss the process by which composers and sound designers can build the world with the filmmaker and be an essential part of shaping a film’s story.
Topics covered include:
- How sound and music work together
- Finding your collaborators
- Providing direction and references to collaborators
- How filmmakers use sound design and music to establish tone
- Perspective and intention in sound design
- Rhythm in sound
- Sense memory and building your soundscape
- Creating a unique fight scene
- Directing the audience’s attention with sound
- Tying a character’s perspective to sound design
- Transitions in sound design
- Spacialization and working with Dolby Atmos
- Collaborating with composers in pre-production
- Approaching the score as a band
- Music as connective tissue
- Blending textures and melodies in the score
- Collaborating with other artists for the soundtrack
- Utilizing test screenings
- The power of playfulness and discovery
- The value of the theatrical release