You Don't Watch Movies. You Hear Them.
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What this talk is about
The Hang Theory. A lecture series by Hang Dallas.
One speaker. One big idea. One good room.
Where · 2700 SWISS Event Space.
People say they watched a movie or ask if you've seen it, but the language is wrong. George Lucas put the number at fifty percent: half of what you experience in a theater is sound. This talk examines how a film's sound mix shapes what an audience feels and where they look, starting with the mechanics of mixing and moving into how surround sound opened new visual strategies that let filmmakers build spaces beyond the frame's edge.
How the night goes
Doors at 6:30 PM. Claim a seat, settle in.
We kick things off around 6:55 PM.
Dr. Kerins takes the floor at 7:00 PM.
Questions from the room near 7:45 PM.
Then we linger. Meet the speaker, meet each other, around 8:00 PM.
Out by 8:30 PM.
Who's speaking
Mark Kerins
Mark Kerins is a former scientist who realized watching, making, and writing about movies was more fun than working in a lab. So he went back to school to earn his M.A. and Ph.D in Radio/TV/Film from Northwestern University, and now teaches filmmaking at SMU. As a film scholar he writes about sound design, home theater, and Michael Bay (not all at the same time) and is a leading scholar on surround sound, author of the 2010 book Beyond Dolby: Cinema in the Digital Sound Age. He's also an award-winning filmmaker whose works focus on nostalgia and loss. You can find him on social media at @filmprofmark
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2700 SWISS Event Space · Dallas, TX