We added a few gunshot effects to the rears in one scene, and when there are cars flying through the air, we moved that effect overhead. How did you use Dolby Atmos on The Blues Brothers, and what did you learn from it?
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At the time, it was the oldest movie to get Dolby Atmos, so that was ground-breaking for everyone-Universal, Dolby, and us. We simply asked him, he liked the idea, and we had our landmark movie.
But I soon saw how a mix could be extended and turned into Dolby Atmos to add immersiveness and depth that enhances a movie without changing its artistic intent.Īs doing this would be a completely new version, we had to get the OK from the original director, John Landis. The studio, CSC in Hamburg, said “We have this brand-new Dolby Atmos set-up, are you interested?” I knew it was 3D audio but hadn’t worked with it before. Read more: Netflix dating show Sexy Beasts falls in love with Dolby Vision.
We recorded all of the original German voice actors for the extended scenes, so we were moving 70-year-old men all over Germany to their nearest studios. Universal decided to work with us for the German market. There was a big new edition of The Blues Brothers in 2016. “I soon saw how a mix could be extended and turned into Dolby Atmos to add immersiveness and depth that enhances a movie without changing its artistic intent,” Christian Bartsch, Turbine How did you encounter Dolby Atmos, and why did you decide to use it? We started with 1980s German comedy films, but after we discovered that we also loved The Texas Chainsaw Massacre we branched out from just family content. We wanted to see the films we loved in a format we appreciated.
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We were fed up with the quality of German-language film DVDs, which were basically just TV releases put on a disc. It was founded in 2004 by film producer Christian Becker and Phil Friederichs who had been in the DVD business since 1997. We talked to Christian Bartsch, technical director at Turbine, to find out how and why a 21st century technology fits in so well with 20th century material. Christian Bartsch: Technical director, Turbine