MasterClass SoundDesign

11/08 – 13/08/2020, 10:00 – 17:00
Midge Costin

This MasterClass is aimed at sound designers, sound engineers, musicians, composer, directors and producers and offers the unique opportunity to gain practical experience and personal feedback on one’s own work in close collaboration with Midge Costin. In the run-up to the workshop, the participants will receive a homework assignment to create their own sound design. The results will be part of the discussions on the last day of the workshop.

We ask all participants to bring their own laptop/MacBook, preferably with ProTools, as well as their own audio recording equipment for possible field recording.

Tuition Fee: 1200 € (incl. 19 % VAT) or
Flaterate: 1600 € (incl. 19% VAT)
for any of master classes, workshops, MSH Conference and special events
Student Discount: 20 %
Working Language: englisch
Location: HAW Hamburg Fakultät DMI, Finkenau 35, 22081 Hamburg

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Midge Costin is Kay Rose Professor in Art of Dialogue & Sound Editing at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. She is the first to hold this endowed chair given by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg in 2005. For over 25 years she has been a feature film sound editor having freelanced at every major studio in Hollywood. Costin has edited sound for filmmakers such as Tony Scott (Crimson Tide), Jerry Bruckheimer (Coyote Ugly / The Rock), John Waters (Crybaby), David Wolper (Imagine: John Lennon) and Amy Heckerling (Look Who’s Talking Too). Two of the films, Crimson Tide and Armageddon, for which she edited sound effects and dialogue, received Academy Award nominations for Sound Editing. Costin produced & directed the award-winning feature documentary, Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound which had its world premiere at Tribeca in April of 2019 and went on to Cannes Film Festival and Filmfest Munich before having its theatrical release last November. As a passionate teacher and advocate for creative use of sound in the cinematic arts, she has traveled internationally to lecture on sound design & editing. Costin is a past Board member of the MPSE, and has been a long-standing member of the Editors Guild.