| Matthew
Wood has been bringing digital technology to the forefront
of filmmaking for over ten years. He was invited to join Lucasfilm
as a part of the Sound Droid development team in 1990 and
joined Skywalker Sound in 1991 as a specialist in incorporating
emerging technology into the traditional editorial model.
Matthew was the Supervising Sound Assistant on The
Young Indiana Jones Chronicles from 1992-1994. His
crew won an Emmy Award in 1993 for The
Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: The Somme and, in 1994,
a Cinema Audio Society Award for The Young
Indiana Jones Chronicles: The Hollywood Follies.
Matthew continued to expand his skills by working as the
Supervising Sound Assistant on such films as Radioland
Murders and One Fine Day,
and by working on sound design with Academy Award winning
sound designer Christopher Boyes on such films as Con
Air, Eraser, and Volcano.
Matthew was nominated for a Motion Picture Sound Editors'
Golden Reel award for Mission Impossible
in 1994.
In 1997, Matthew began to prepare for the upcoming production
of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom
Menace. As a Supervising Sound Editor, Matthew fulfilled
his vision of an ideal technological and creative system through
which to manage all aspects of audio post-production. This
included a groundbreaking portable ADR system (which took
the crew all over the world) and numerous other innovations.
The Phantom Menace was nominated
for Academy Awards in both the Best Sound and Best Sound Effects
Editing categories.
Working at Skywalker Sound in between Star
Wars films, Matthew supervised the animated film Titan
A.E. for 20th Century Fox. This work received a Golden
Reel for Best Sound Editing, Animated Feature in 2000.
As the Supervising Sound Editor for
Attack of the Clones Matthew continued to create and
oversee the use of completely new technology. The summer of
2000 was spent pioneering digital sound recording on location,
as Matthew spent his time ensuring that everything went smoothly
between the revolutionary new methods of entirely digital
film and audio production. In addition to being on the set
in Australia, Matthew spent time gathering sounds rare enough
to populate the new worlds of Attack
of the Clones.
Before Revenge of the Sith
commenced, Matthew was to supervise the re-mastering of the
Star Wars Special Edition Trilogy
to DVD 2004. Bringing these films into the modern soundstage
of DVD and Dolby EX, Matthew and his crew spent months meticulously
reconstructing the soundtracks from their original elements.
An absolute labor of love, Matthew got to relive his childhood
fantasy and also work his sound expertise on his favorite
films.
Once again sharing the role of Supervising Sound Editor with
his mentor and friend Ben Burtt, Revenge
of the Sith would be the proving ground of another
sound first. The sound editorial and mixing process would
now be unified under one operating platform. Never had a film
of this scale attempted a complete sound design, edit and
mix with one operating system. A completely non-linear and
expandable system was put in place by Skywalker Sound and
Matthew, allowing the soundtrack to be completed ahead of
schedule and with complete creative flexibility.
Matthew continues in his role as Supervising Sound Editor
at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California. |
