NAB: ‘Captain America’ Sound Team Talks Challenges, What Makes Marvel Movies Great, and What Makes the Oscars ‘Frustrating’

Marvel Studios’ SVP of feature post production, Bruce Marko,e reveals the surprising percentage of movie budgets spent on the sound department

“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” received rave reviews and raked in nearly $100 million domestically last weekend, but without the spectacular soundscape created in post-production, Marvel Studio’s SVP of feature post production Bruce Markoe thinks it would have been “horrible.”

Markoe joined Skywalker Sound designer and editor Shannon J. Mills and supervising sound editor Dan Laurie for a Q & A session with TheWrap following their panel, “In Heroes, We Trust,” at the NAB Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

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Find out what the biggest challenge was during the production of the movie, why sound matters more than most people think, why Marvel makes great movies, and why the Academy Awards can be “frustrating” for often overlooked accomplishments in making the movies you love sound great.

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