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  • Why Top Gun Won the Oscar for Sound (2023)
  • Video | 9 min | Documentary, Short
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Why Top Gun Won the Oscar for Sound (2023)
Video | 9 min | Documentary, Short
One of the most exciting things about Top Gun: Maverick is their emphasis on practical effects. Most times, when you see the film's actors struggling against high-level g-forces, that struggle is real. The actors spent months training to ...See moreOne of the most exciting things about Top Gun: Maverick is their emphasis on practical effects. Most times, when you see the film's actors struggling against high-level g-forces, that struggle is real. The actors spent months training to be in planes doing their own stunts, and the whole film feels grounded because of it. Most times these sequences were shot practically ... but not every time. In the film's incredible seven-minute opener (also known as the Darkstar sequence), nearly everything we see is completely fake. The plane used to go Mach 10 doesn't really exist yet. It's a prototype for a plane that will exist in the future, built by Lockheed Martin. While a prototype of that plane was used for taxiing around the runway, anytime we see the plane in the air it's entirely VFX - impeccable VFX. But beyond the VFX, the thing that makes it feel so real is the sound design. In this video, Top Gun: Mavericks supervising sound producer Al Nelson breaks down the Darkstar sequence. He explains how his team made a plane that doesn't exist sound real, and, more importantly, how they leveraged the sound design to be just as emotionally impactful as a piece of orchestrated music. See less
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Bridgett Henwood (story editor)
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Edward Vega
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Updated Mar 10, 2023
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Mar 10, 2023 (United States)

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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
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