#294: Sound Designing Weird Al with Mike Gallagher and Anthony Vanchure

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mike Gallagher and Anthony Vanchure are, respectively, the sound designer and supervising sound editor for the new bio pic <em>Weird: The Al Yankovic Story</em>. The duo have worked together on many projects, including Netflix's <em>Song Exploder</em> and Amazon's <em>Lucy and Desi</em>. Both have been nominated for Emmy awards. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mike and Anthony spoke about their work on the Weird Al biopic. They went into great detail about how sound can be used to tell a story and set a mood. We discussed the choices they made to support the film's tone and how feedback from the directors and Weird Al himself helped guide their work.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen on</span> <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/music-production-podcast/id1212124420"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Apple</span></a>,<span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span><a href= "https://open.spotify.com/show/2R5hFhExyUzbI7jD7eauck"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Spotify</span></a>,<span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span><a href= "http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/music-production-podcast?refid=stpr"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stitcher</span></a>,<span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9tdXNpY3Byb2R1Y3Rpb25wb2RjYXN0LmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Google</span></a>, <span style="font-weight: 400;">or watch on</span> <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk4jo7_Rx2-2mjUoTXTL4u0iUH5_XqBYi"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">YouTube</span></a></p> <p><strong>Show Notes:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Stream <em>Weird: The Al Yankovic Story</em> - <a href= "https://www.roku.com/">https://www.roku.com/</a></li> <li>Song Exploder on Netflix - <a href= "https://songexploder.net/netflix">https://songexploder.net/netflix</a></li> <li>Song Exploder Podcast - <a href= "https://songexploder.net/">https://songexploder.net/</a></li> <li>In Depth Sound Design YouTube - <a href= "https