ABSTRACT
Ingmar Bergman’s quote on the front cover of Tarkovsky’s autobiography Sculpting in Time , described him as ‘the most important director of the time’; and both Bergman and Tarkovsky directed their movies with passion, and from an auteur perspective: their artistic vision is clear to see as the driving force for their films. However, modern, and evolving film production methods, contemporary post-production technology, audience taste and consumer hardware mean that an existing outmoded and hierarchical approach towards sound could be reaching an overdue extinction. Sound Editors are now able to work much more collaboratively, and earlier, in the post-production process with picture editors; allowing the sound and picture departments to start work together on the first cut, and then on throughout the subsequent post-production stages. For consumers, the choice and understanding of seemingly the ever-evolving sound technology can be bewildering.
