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Meet Bernard Duc, Swiss film composer and conductor
Bernard Duc is a Swiss film composer and conductor living in London. He is also the organiser of Perspective, an event for film and media composers that is held annually in London. Bernard Duc, if you had to name 3 characteristics a successful film composer needs in...
Meet Jeffrey Gaiser at Audiomachine Los Angeles
Jeffrey Gaiser is an award-winning film composer at Audiomachine, a production music company based in Los Angeles. Many of Audiomachine's tracks have been featured in theatrical movie trailers, including those of Avatar, The Chronicles of Narnia, Iron Man, Venom and...
Quick Hack for Creating a Multiframe 3×2 Layout in Premiere Pro
My video project "Die Lockdown-Probe" is a satirical comedy about six musicians rehearsing online via Skype call. I wrote and filmed it during the coronavirus lockdown in spring 2020, and it officially premiered on New Year's Eve 2020 as part of the streaming program...
Meet Jonathan Coomes, sound mixer and sound designer in Hollywood
Jonathan Coomes is a sound designer and sound mixer in Los Angeles and an active member of Motion Picture Sound Editors and the Motion Picture Editors Guild. He has worked on numerous films, episodic series, and video games in a variety of roles. Epic Lab had the...
How music influences the perception of a scene
Exploring the effects of music and sound on the perception of motion picture has always fascinated me. This short clip is an example I put together just for fun, comparing two identical film excerpts with different music and sound effects applied. Depending on your...
Meet Esin Aydingoz, assistant music director for Disney’s DCappella & secretary for the Alliance for Women Film Composers
Esin Aydingoz is a Turkish film composer based in Los Angeles, who also happens to be the assistant music director for DCappella, Disney Music Group’s a cappella singing sensation featuring 7 world class vocalists. Known for their reimagined classics from the Disney...
Elephants Dream Rescored
Elephants Dream (code-named Project Orange during production and originally titled Machina) is a 2006 Dutch computer animated science fiction fantasy experimental short film produced by Blender Foundation using, almost exclusively, free and open-source software. The...
Epic Lab provides film music for Dance Festival Thun
As the Dance Festival Thun cannot happen this year due to the coronavirus crisis, a dance movie will be produced instead. Epic Lab is providing the film music for the movie that will be premiered in the cinema Rex in Thun beginning of May.
Color correction example with DaVinci Resolve
Take a quick look at a color correction example from our music video produced for Swiss cellist Albert Roman. Filming location was the church of Seewen (canton Solothurn), a popular recording and concert venue for classical musicians.
Interview with film composer Peter Hauser
Peter Hauser is one of the creative minds behind Epic Lab. His compositions have been praised for their ability to get stuck in people's head, for their catchy themes and poetic touch. Learn more about his creative process, his equipment and his philosophy in our...