September 2007 Meeting Notice

This will be our annual Meeting for 2007

Note: This meeting requires an RSVP to be sent to info@aessf.org. Please include your name, who you represent and AES membership number if you have one. Priority will be given to members and the number of attendees is limited to 75 as a requirement of the venue. This is a strict rule so please book early to avoid disappointment. You will not be admitted to the venue unless you have registered for this by email and received a confirmation from the section's secretary. As this is the annual meeting for our section we shall be announcing the officers for the next twelve months. The lecture will occur afterwards

Description

The Egg Show is a two-hour presentation, discussing various aspects of film sound mixing. Many film examples are used, each of which has been chosen to demonstrate a different mixing issue. You will see how film sound mixers highlight a conversation in a crowd scene, inter-cut music to film and create artificial sound effects that sound more real on film than a "live" recording. Numerous slides enhance the lecture, most of which use photographs of eggs to illustrate the artistic uses of sound on film. The lecture has been given many times throughout the world at film conventions and festivals, film schools, and to technical societies.

Ioan Allen joined Dolby Laboratories in 1969, and was in large part responsible for the origination and development of the Dolby Stereo film program. He is a Fellow of the SMPTE, AES and BKSTS and is active in U.S. and world standards organizations. He is past president of the International Theatre Equipment Association and past Engineering Director - Motion Pictures for the SMPTE. He serves as technical chairman of the Trailer Audio Standards Association (TASA), and chairman of the Dye Track Committee, which was honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific and Technical Committee for its contributions to the environmentally responsible industry conversion from silver-based to cyan dye analog soundtracks. He has been honored for his contributions to the film industry and has been the recipient of awards from Intersociety for the Enhancement of Theatrical Presentation (2002), the National Association of Theatre Owners (1998), the BKSTS, and the Samuel L. Warner Award from SMPTE (1985). Mr. Allen was the recipient of Scientific and Engineering Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1979, 1987 and 2001, and received an Oscar in 1989. Mr. Allen is currently an Adjunct Professor at The University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television and recently was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Nottingham.

From Peninsula/S.F. Airport/Silicon Valley (Hwy. 101 North) Take Vermont Street Exit. Make immediate left onto Vermont Street. Go 5 blocks and turn left onto Alameda Street. Three blocks up is Potrero Avenue. Dolby is the large, red, 3-story brick building on the corner of Potrero and Alameda.

From Bay Bridge (Hwy. 80 West) Take 9th Street/Civic Center exit. Go to the south onto Harrison Street. Follow Harrison to 10th Street. Turn left onto 10th Street and proceed under freeway overpass onto Potrero Avenue. Dolby is the large, red, 3-story brick building on the corner of Potrero and Alameda.

From Golden Gate Bridge (Hwy. 101 South) Cross Golden Gate Bridge, take the Lombard Street (Hwy. 101) Exit. Follow Hwy. 101 signs up Lombard to Van Ness Avenue. Turn right. Proceed on Van Ness to Fell Street and turn left. Proceed on Fell until it crosses Market Street and becomes 10th Street. Continue on 10th under freeway overpass and bear right onto Potrero Avenue. Dolby is the large, red, 3-story brick building on the corner of Potrero and Alameda.

Address:
Dolby Laboratories
100 Potrero Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94103-4813
415-558-0200