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Five of the eight movies that will vie for the
Best Picture academy award on Sunday use Atmos, the latest sound
technology developed by Dolby.
The same goes for the Dolby Theatre where the prizes will be
handed out.
The post-production system, which also features ultra-high
resolution Dolby Vision Technology, allows directors to place
"up to 108 different sound objects in 3D space", said Julian
Stanford, Dolby Cinema Europe's director of business
development.
That creates a soundscape with different angles, intensities,
and tonal values. "It's an immersive system which has speakers
that are not only all round you but above your head and behind
the screen," he told Reuters TV.
"So it allows the director and his sound mixer to put objects in
sound in three-dimensional space and so it means they can put
you right in the middle of the movie."
For those watching in the growing number of Atmos-equipped
cinemas worldwide, sound can nuance the movie-going experience
every bit as much as images, Stanford believes.
At one end of the decibel scale, the pivotal beach scene in
"Roma" is largely silent, but the tonal textures remain key.
"You feel terrified. There is no music in the background, almost
no dialogue at all. The landscape of your emotion is defined by
that sound that he (director Alfonso Cuaron) has created," he
said.
At the other, in the wall-of-noise Live Aid segment of "Bohemian
Rhapsody", director Brian Singer can place "the bass to the
left, the drums to the back.
"You are placed on the stage with them, and you hear this
incredibly intense experience, and you live what (Queen frontman)
Freddie Mercury is living at that moment," Stanford said.
(Reporting by Emily Roe; writing by John Stonestreet; editing by
Michael Davidson)
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