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  • Technology is a very important tool for sound.

  • Sometimes we think that sound is all about technology and that's not really true, it's mostly about telling a story.

  • One of the technologies that is most exciting recently is - what you might call - immersive sound.

  • With the Barco system you're able to place sounds, not only in front of the audience as they sit in a movie theater, but behind them and above them.

  • Let's blow this place, Belch!

  • The above part is particularly useful for How to Train Your Dragon because very often in this movie we have dragons flying directly over our heads.

  • Auro puts you in the middle of the action, it's called immersive sound for a reason and I think it's because you have the capability of surrounding the audience and that's incredibly powerful.

  • It's tricky because you don't want to distract the audience by being too gimmicky with the sound.

  • You don't want them to say: "well, wait, wait, what was that? Oh yeah, the sound people are fiddling with me."

  • So, it's a careful dance that you have to do to use that technology in a way that helps the story rather than distracting from the story.

  • I love working with DreamWorks and working with friendly, positive people is very high on my list of priorities.

  • I find that the directors and producers and others who I work with on these DreamWorks films are 'dreams' to work with in that way.

  • C'mon Toothless!

  • Yeah baby!

  • Dragons and Vikings, enemies again!

  • You know that doesn't wash out

Technology is a very important tool for sound.

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