About this episode
Two-time Academy Award winning director Guillermo del Toro and his co-director Mark Gustafson join us to discuss their latest work — appropriately titled — “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.” Despite being stop-motion animation, the film features a rich sound design and complex mix. One which the directors had to fight for. “Mark [Gustafson] and I had to fight for the time that we needed on the mix board originally, because [for an] animated movie, they gave us a number of weeks. And we said, ‘no, we need more.’ Scott and I knew that our timing generally takes a little longer. But I think that we ended up understanding that we needed as many passes as a live-action movie — a big one — to reach simplicity. Which is very, very, very at odds. To be simple, we needed to elaborate the mix and make sure we were not mixing something superficial.” — Guillermo del Toro, Director, “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” Joining the discussion is sound supervisor Scott Gershin, along with re-recording mixers Frank A. Montaño and Jon Taylor, the latter of whom you may remember from our episode on BARDO from earlier this week . Be sure to check out “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” now streaming on Netflix, in Dolby Vision® and Dolby Atmos® . Please subscribe to The Dolby Institute Podcast wherever you get your podcasts . You can also check out the video for this episode. Learn more about the Dolby Institute and check out Dolby.com . Connect with Dolby on Instagram , Twitter , Facebook , or LinkedIn .