Top Gun: Maverick someone is back Cinema last summer, as a reward for the performance movie industry a lot of money, the Academy decided to give it Oscar for the best sound. That’s great for them, but it’s also incredibly worth it. Tom Cruise must have been delighted.
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Speaking of suspense, it’s the feeling I’ve seen for the first time Maverick In the theater. The movie as a whole is great, but what really captured my imagination — and those of the voters — turned out to be the seven-minute Darkstar scene. Vox sat down with Al Nelson, the film’s supervisory sound producer, and Darkstar’s inspirational noise analysis, most likelyagitated plane built for the film by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, was born.
Top Gun: Maverick could use a lot of realistic effects during its run, but that’s hard to do with an aircraft like the Darkstar that can fly at Mach 10 in principle and also not real. Essentially, Vox describes it as starting with a completely blank vehicle. Nelson breaks down everything the audience hears in that sequence from jet turbine switch to the beep that the Mach indicator produces.
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We even found out where the sound designers get the jet stream noise flowing around the Darkstar when it’s at Mach 10, and it’s not where you’d expect it to be. Nelson says they used the noise that car tires make on the Roebling Suspension Bridge across the Ohio River to create sound. It’s a wild movie, man.
Nelson also takes time to analyze how sound designers use what we hear to amplify our emotions in footage. They take cues like quick audio editing from the very first time Top Guns to heighten the intensity of what’s happening, and it’s amazing. Oh, and as a nice little bonus, the video describes how a scram jet works compared to a regular turbojet. Nice one, Vox. Good looks.
If you haven’t seen it yet Top Gun: Maverick however, I don’t know what your main problem is, but you really should. The movie is worth subscribing to Paramount Plus for the sound alone.
