Mark Mangini - Sound Designer

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 10 October 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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EPISODE 157- MARK MANGINI- Sound Designer

Team Deakins converses with sound designer Mark Mangini (DUNE, BLADE RUNNER 2049, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, STAR TREK) about the world of sound. In this episode, Mark explains that his job is to tell stories with sound and to create universes that sonically don’t exist. He walks us through designing the sound for the war rig in MAD MAX: FURY ROAD as well as his close collaboration with director Denis Villeneuve on BLADE RUNNER 2049, and Tom Holkenborg on BLACK MASS. We discuss how Mark decides when to use a music cue or sound effect cue, how you can earn loud sounds by buying silence early on in a film, and the creative necessity and financial incentive to capture production sound on set instead of recreating it in post. We learn a lot in this episode!! You don’t want to miss it!

BONUS: Use this link to download a sound file that Mark makes reference to when speaking of "Bladerunner 2049".

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and
0:09.9	James Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never
0:16.5	know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear
0:21.6	the audio.
0:23.6	If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by emailing podpod.cod at RogerDeakin's.com.
0:35.7	Today we have a sound designer with us. He's worked on such films as Mad Max, Fury Road, Black
0:41.7	Mass, Blade Runner 2049 and the Way Back. We're pleased to welcome Mark Mangini with us today.
0:49.5	Mark, thank you for doing this. I'm not a pleasure. Thank you. It's an honor to be here.
0:53.4	We'd like to start with a question. How did you get to where you are today? What was your path
0:58.8	getting there? Did you always know you wanted to do something with sound or did you find it later on?
1:05.5	No, it came only through my passion for movies. I knew I wanted to be in the movie business and I
1:13.7	left Boston, Massachusetts where I grew up as a foreign language major, believe it or not.
1:20.6	But I dropped out of college because I knew I wanted to be in movies so I drove across the US,
1:27.7	headed for Los Angeles with the hopes of finding something to do in the business.
1:33.2	I'm also a guitarist and a musician. That was sort of a crazy backup plan.
1:37.9	But I ended up here and as fate would have it, the first working gig I got was at Hanobar Barbera Studios.
1:46.3	I don't know if you know the, they made the famous Kids Cartoon Saturday morning, you know,
1:51.9	like the Flintstones and Yogi Bear. That was my first gig in the sound department because that's
1:59.1	what they had. They thought maybe they'd find me something in animation or maybe who knows.
2:06.2	But it turned out it was in the sound department where I apprenticed and worked my way up for about
2:13.0	three and a half years learning the craft of sound, learning to listen, learning to edit sound effects,
2:19.2	learning to make sound effects. And I developed a great love for it because it was a lot like my
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