In this issue, we speak to another individual who shares Vats penchant for curiosity – the Emmy-award winning re-recordist Jonathan Wales, who is also CEO of Sonic Magic Studios. Fascinated by technology, he quit a job to start his own company that employed a completely digital, end-toend workflow. Having worked on close to 300 movies, he says that ultimately, everything boils down to telling stories interestingly, without being generic or boring, but also without being too obvious.
In yet another article, while describing how they created the audio landscape for the soon-to-be released Tiger Zinda Hai, Ganesh Gangadharan, Dileep Subramanian and Anuj Mathur of YRF Studios reveal how they innovated to add aural
elements to the film. At certain places in the movie, the music was notched down discreetly to accentuate the sound effects or the other way around, depending on the story’s flow.
The central thread running through these three articles is this – content reigns supreme.