The Boom Box Post blog provides insights into the creative sound design process of Boom Box Post's owners and employees.
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We love to put our editors to the test to see what kind of SFX builds they can come up with! For Halloween this year, we thought it would be fun to see how well they can design a realistic, classic Halloween creature. From werewolves, vampire, and zombies, to banshees, let’s see what they came up with!
Picking up where Kate left off back in 2015, I decided to try my hand at crafting a soundtrack that evoked the spirit of slasher movies! Including all the cliche hits like chainsaws, blood curdling screams, jump-scares and spooky forests. Take a listen!
As a studio that works in a lot of children’s animation, we are always on the lookout for a good substitute for breaking glass. Recently, our supervising sound editor, Tess, took it upon herself to create our own library featuring the breakage of terracotta pots.
This year, I was invited to be on Impact24’s 5th Annual “Hollywood Game Changers: A Conversation with the Women Behind Popular Film and TV Projects” panel at San Diego Comic Con. I was humbled to be joined by other amazing women from across the entertainment industry, such as Ashleigh Hairston, EP/Voice Actor on Nickelodeon’s The Fairly Odd Parents: A New Wish; Joy Ngiaw, composer for WondLa, Skydance’s epic new animated series; KC Cavarozzi, Co-Founder of On Camera Audiences, and more.
Boom Box Post owner Jeff Shiffman was invited to be on Impact24’s “From Script to Screen: Behind The Camera of Storytelling Across Diverse Mediums” panel at this year’s San Diego Comic Con!
Do you know your sound terminology? Use the clues to test your skills in the crossword below! Type your answer directly into the crossword and it will turn green if correct!
In the past, we have published multiple blogs that list classic cartoon sound effects and the emotion they convey to the audience. Our hope is that these lists will help those stuck in their sound editorial from having to sift through their entire sound library looking for the perfect sound.
We were recently interviewed by multiple publications about Invincible Season 2 including Post Magazine, Tonebenders Podcast, and SFX Magazine! We are always thrilled when a show that we have worked on gets the light that it deserves and we love to share the behind the scenes post-sound process.
Recently, Boom Box Post co-owner, Jeff Shiffman brought in three different Typewriters for a recording project. We put our apprentice, Andrew Shirey up to the test to get all the sounds possible out of the multiple type writers provided. Let’s see what he was able to capture!
Boom Box Post co-owner, Jeff Shiffman sat down with Cory Stillman from Awards Radar to chat about working on the Prime Video series Invincible and more!
Season’s greetings to all of you editors, mixers, engineers, recordists, professionals, prosumers, students, freelancers, and everyone in between. Whether you’re aiming to dazzle a certain individual in your life who is passionate about sound/post production, or if you’re a professional in the sound industry finding it difficult to put together your holiday wish list, worry not, we’ve got you sorted!
To celebrate Halloween in a gruesome style, we decided to do part two of: Death by Sound Effect. We came up with a cause of death and put our editors to the task to create a gross, gruesome sound build. Let’s see what they came up with!
Boom Box Post owner, Jeff Shiffman, was invited to be on the Fan Favorites panel at San Diego Comic Con to give insight on his work in Transformers: EarthSpark. Jeff and five other creative minds behind some of the biggest TV and movie projects reveal how they bring fan-favorite stories to life.
Did you enjoy What’s That Sound part 1, 2, and 3? Let’s see if you can guess what sounds we have come up with this time! Listen carefully!
Post Perspective recently wrote an article featuring an interview with one of Boom Box Post’s owners, Kate Finan. Kate is a re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor, and co-founder of Boom Box Post, a boutique animation-specific sound studio located in Burbank, CA. Post Perspective chatted with Kate about Gabby’s Dollhouse and the specific steps relating to the audio post process.
Tonebenders, a podcast featuring a collective of sound design professionals sharing their thoughts, ideas, and stories, recently released a podcast featuring an interview with our two owners, Jeff Shiffman and Kate Finan. Tonebenders chatted with Jeff and Kate about their experience of transforming a former auto body shop into a brand new multi-room audio post facility.
No Film School recently released an article featuring an interview with our two owners, Jeff Shiffman and Kate Finan. No Film School chatted with Kate and Jeff about the goals within Boom Box Post. This includes hiring men, women, and non-binary at a 50/50 level, education within the studio, and their paid apprenticeship program which contains weekly lessons and real-world feedback from members of the staff. Jeff and Kate also chat about their experience building their own sound studio from a former auto shop.
Animation World Network recently wrote an article and interviewed Kate Finan, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor, and co-founder with Jeff Shiffman of Boom Box Post, a boutique animation-specific sound studio located in Burbank, CA. They chat about sexism within the industry and their way on how to create an enviorment that strives for 50 percent women and gender non-conforming as well as 50 percent male. This was a founding goal of Boom Box that Finan and Shiffman reached within the first couple years.
Last year, we published two blogs that listed classic cartoon sound effects and the emotion they convey to the audience. In those posts, we outlined the toony sounds we associate with happiness, anger, sadness, humor, scared, disgust, love, and boredom. Toon sound effects have been provoking emotion for decades. With so many classic toon sounds to choose from, how does one know which to use? Our hope is these blog posts help those stuck in their sound editorial from having to sift through their entire sound library looking for the perfect sound. You can read part one HERE and part two HERE!
We have a new Assistant Editor at Boom Box Post! It is our pleasure to introduce you to Mia!
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