Beep: A Documentary History of Game Sound
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Directed by | Karen Collins |
Written by | Karen Collins |
Cinematography | Matthew Charlton |
Music by | Leonard J. Paul |
Production company | Ehtonal |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
Budget | CAD 61,606[1] |
Beep: A Documentary History of Game Sound is a 2016 Canadian documentary film written and directed by Karen Collins,[2] who, according to Dana Plank on the Journal of the Society for American Music, has published "some of the most influential texts on the history of game audio."[3] The documentary examines the history of game sound design[4] from penny arcades, pinball and video games up to 2015.[5] The documentary was founded through Kickstarter, and features interviews with people involved in game sound design,[6][7][8] such as: Marty O'Donnell, Nathan McCree, George Sanger, Nobuo Uematsu, Yoko Shimomura and Winifred Phillips among others.[9]
It was awarded with the Best Editing film in the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival in 2016.[10][11]
Cast[]
The following people were interviewed in the documentary:
- Becky Allen
- Yoshino Aoki
- Simon Ashby
- Clint Bajakian
- William 'Chip' Beaman
- Brendan Becker
- Erik Braa
- Anastasios Brakis
- Alexander Brandon
- Allister Brimble
- John Broomhall
- Tracy W. Bush
- Bryan Celano
- D.B. Cooper
- Michael Csurics
- Charles Deenen
- Peter Drescher
- Gordon Durity
- Mark Estdale
- Brad Fuller
- Scott Martin Gershin
- Jason Graves
- Andreas Hamm
- James Hannigan
- Lance Hayes
- Rich Heimlich
- Rudy Helm
- Spencer Hooks
- Steve Horowitz
- Shinji Hosoe
- Chris Huelsbeck
- Sam S. Hughes (Credited as Sam Hughes
- Noriyuki Iwadare
- Richard Jacques
- Damian Kastbauer
- Michael Kelly
- Hiroki Kikuta
- Penka Kouneva
- Michael Land
- Jennifer Lewis
- Levon Louis
- Richard Ludlow
- Peter McConnell
- Nathan McCree
- Dren McDonald
- Dan Miller
- Takuya Nakagami
- Koichi Namiki
- Michiko Naruke
- Graeme Norgate
- Martin O'Donnell
- Hisayoshi Ogura
- Joanna Orland
- Rebecca Parnell
- Leonard J. Paul
- Winifred Phillips
- Shannon Potter
- Jory K. Prum
- Tom Rettig
- Wilbert Roget II
- Arnie Roth
- Hitoshi Sakimoto
- Tom Salta
- George Alistair Sanger
- Nobuyoshi Sano
- Tenpei Sato
- Brian L. Schmidt
- Stephan Schutze
- Garry Schyman
- Tetsuya Shibata
- Yôko Shimomura
- Chanel Summers
- Yuji Takenouchi
- David E. Thiel
- Masanobu 'Tomi' Tomita
- Nobuo Uematsu
- David Viens
- David Warhol
- Jim Welch
- Tom White
- Guy Whitmore
- Alex Wilmer
- Nick Wiswell
References[]
- ^ "Beep: A Documentary History of Video Game Music & Sound". www.kickstarter.com. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
- ^ Fazio, Giovanni. "'Beep' tracks down 8-bit maestros". www.japantimes.co.jp. The Japan Times. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
- ^ Plank, Dana. "Beep: A Documentary History of Game Sound. Directed by Karen Collins./Beep: Documenting the History of Game Sound. Interviews by Karen Collins with Chris Greening. Waterloo, Canada: Ehtonal Inc., 2016". cambridge.org. Journal of the Society for American Music. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
- ^ Schneider, Marc. "'Beep' Documentary Traces History of Video Game Music". www.billboard.com. billboard.com. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
- ^ "Here's your chance to back a documentary about video game sounds". The Daily Dot. 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
- ^ Crecente, Brian (2014-09-08). "Why video game sound is so powerfully bonding". Polygon. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
- ^ Gutenberg, Steve (September 6, 2014). "'Beep': A Kickstarter project about the history of game sound and music". CNET. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
- ^ Porter, Matt. "Author of Sound Blaster: The Official Book talks about the early days of PC audio". Retrieved 5 January 2018.
- ^ Schneider, Marc. "'Beep' Documentary Traces History of Video Game Music". www.billboard.com. billboard.com. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
- ^ "Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2016 – Award Winners". documentarydrive.com. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
- ^ "Winners of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2016". asianfilmfestivals.com. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
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