We were super excited to talk to Mad Max Fury Road vehicle recordist Oliver Machin for this episode.
Oliver gave us tons of great war stories and logistics problems from the set of one of the breakout films of the year.
War machines, microphones, and rock n roll on the Doof Wagon.
Enjoy!
More stuff:
how they built the vehicles for fury road
18 mins of behind the scenes footage
Oliver’s rig
and here are a bunch of images from the shoot:
I should make a correction… it was actually 3 years ago (June 2012) that we started on location in Namibia.
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Another great podcast guys, this was particularly enjoyable. Thanks Oliver for sharing!
Listening to the podcast definitely inspired me to see the film again in an Atmos theater. Great work!
I saw it in iMax but not Atmos. How was it?
I felt like I could hear a difference in clarity with the increased channel separation, but since the only theater in L.A. that was still showing Mad Max in Atmos at that point also had vibrating seats (for some reason Entourage was eating up all of the Atmos theater screens!), my judgement may be skewed.
The one that I really noticed this time around was how quiet the film became in the scenes between big action set pieces. It’s something I definitely understand given how hard the mixers are pushing the loud scenes, but I felt like I wanted to hear a bit more of the desert atmospheres. Even in the quiet driving scenes, the engine is almost gone.
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