The Motion Picture Sound Editors showed Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith for the first time in Dolby Atmos, bringing out Skywalker Sound special guests Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood (and General Grievous himself). Writer Clayton Sandell was on hand for the special discussion.
Wood fondly recalled Burtt’s instructions when it came to gathering sounds for Sith.
“When we were together, you’d have me go out in the field and just get things,” Wood explains. “When we were in Sydney, Australia, it’d be like, ‘Go out and just record things. I’ve heard that there might be some penguins down at this place.’”
Thousands of everyday sounds were shaped into a fantastic galactic library of ships, creatures, props, and environments.
“We all know that sounds spur the imagination,” Burtt continues. “It takes a little bit of thinking, but you can take any real organic sound and just shift it around slightly or put it in this other context. People won’t recognize it.”
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