Working: How Sound Editor Ai-Ling Lee Creates Immersive Soundscapes for Movies
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🗓️ 12 December 2021
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| 0:00.0 | They mean she's out the director and we go like, you know, in this one rocket launch sequence |
| 0:11.3 | he wants it to feel like a saving private Ryan or Das Boot. |
| 0:18.4 | I kind of like a director who with film references that is like totally not what you think. |
| 0:24.4 | It makes me try to think of the box. |
| 0:30.2 | Hello and welcome back to working. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm your host Karen Han and I am your other host Isaac Butler. |
| 0:37.1 | And whose voice were we just listening to? |
| 0:39.5 | So we were just listening to the voice of this week's guest Eileen Lee. |
| 0:44.3 | She is a prolific, very highly acclaimed and in-demand sound editor. |
| 0:48.7 | She's actually even been nominated for the Oscar. |
| 0:50.4 | I think twice who worked on Lala Land, first man, free guy, JoJo Rabbit. |
| 0:57.3 | I mean, it's a really wide filmography. |
| 1:00.2 | She's worked on literally dozens of movies. |
| 1:02.5 | That's amazing. |
| 1:03.6 | And so what do slate plus listeners have in store for them this week? |
| 1:08.0 | So slate plus listeners get a couple bonus tidbits from the interview that we're left on the cutting room floor. |
| 1:14.2 | First off, we're talking with Eileen Lee about what sound scapes or kinds of movies she's never worked in |
| 1:21.2 | that she's always wanted to try. |
| 1:22.7 | And then we talk about how very big advances in sound recording and software technology |
| 1:28.3 | have changed her job over the last 20 years. |
| 1:31.6 | That sounds so cool. |
| 1:33.2 | So listeners, if you want to hear this and you are not a slate plus member, |
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