THE DARK KNIGHT

"The Dark Knight" swooped into theaters July 18th. Helping Nolan create a Gotham City that sounds as real as it looks is sound supervisor and designer Richard King. Riding tall with his work on "The Assassination of Jesse James..." King returned to work with Nolanafter a previous collaboration for 2006's "The Prestige". Mixing took place at Warner Bros. stage 10 where re-recording mixers Gary Rizzo and Lora Hirschberg manhandled dialog and effects/music, respectively. The pair mixed Nolan's last two films. Known for his emphasis on the importance of production dialog, Nolan tapped Ed Novick to shoot location sound. Novick is currently working on Michael Mann's next, "Public Enemies". Recorded at Air Studios in London, Composers Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard divvied up the work on "TDK" following their formula from “Batman Begins”. Below is a short video of some of the live performance the composers did at the NYC primere of the film. If anyone has a link to something more substantial please send it along!

Q AND A'S WITH PRODUCTION MIXER ED NOVICK, SOUND SUPERVISOR RICHARD KING, AND AMBIENT MUSIC DESIGNER MEL WESSON