Transformers Sound Designer Erik Aadahl
06/09/23 • 25 min
#002 - Erik Aadahl almost closed the door on his sound editing career a few weeks into his first year at Stanford, but instead he transferred to USC, dropped his biology double major, and his mom finally forgave him when she got to be his date to the Oscars.
Erik has worked on all seven Transformers movies, several Godzillas, and Law and Order: SVU.
In this conversation, he talks about moving from a staff position to freelance, starting his own sound editorial company, and how he goes about creating sounds for the different Transformers.
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#002 - Erik Aadahl almost closed the door on his sound editing career a few weeks into his first year at Stanford, but instead he transferred to USC, dropped his biology double major, and his mom finally forgave him when she got to be his date to the Oscars.
Erik has worked on all seven Transformers movies, several Godzillas, and Law and Order: SVU.
In this conversation, he talks about moving from a staff position to freelance, starting his own sound editorial company, and how he goes about creating sounds for the different Transformers.
For show notes on this episode and more advice on how you can break into the industry, visit:
https://hollywoodonramp.net/2
If you'd rather watch this interview, check it out on Youtube:
https://hollywoodonramp.net/youtube002
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#001 - After film school, Kim Huston found herself working at a movie theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a long way from Hollywood.
In this conversation, she talks about how she used Linkedin and cold emails to make connections. Those connections taught her what she needed to know to join the editors guild and helped her get started in her career.
Kim has worked on movies like This Is Forty, The Big Short, John Wick: Chapter Two, and most recently Fast X as Lead Visual Effects Editor.
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In this conversation, Tze talks about how serendipity has served him in his career, but he also talked about his plan early on to write and direct a short every six months and a feature every nine months. He also lets us know what getting a short and a feature into Sundance did for his career.
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