ABTB completes Music Production and Sound Design for “Beyond All Boundaries” - Opening November 6th at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans with Executive Producer Tom Hanks
Founded in 1992, Audio By The Bay Entertainment Group has quickly grown into one of the premiere creative and technical production companies in the entertainment industry. Audio By The Bay currently provides creative, audio, video, show control, special effects, and show production services to many of the top companies in theme park, location-based entertainment, television, film, and advertising/marketing industries. With extensive backgrounds in audio design and production as well as theme park show production, Audio By The Bay's principals have a been a part of some of the biggest entertainment projects ever produced.
Beyond All Boundaries, created exclusively for The National World War II Museum, is a unique and powerful 4-D cinematic experience available nowhere else in the world. Created and crafted with 21st-century technology and utilizing a 120-feet wide immersive screen, the production plunges viewers into the 20th-century’s most titanic struggle. It tells the tale of the Greatest Generation’s journey from Pearl Harbor into the fire of epic battles to America’s final victory in the War That Changed the World in the words of the veterans themselves. The Museum is honored to have Tom Hanks as Executive Producer and the voices of some of Hollywood’s top stars bringing to life the words of actual World War II participants and war correspondents.
True to history it is, but to appeal to the broadest possible audience -– from the Greatest Generation to Gen Y -– the Museum engaged Hollywood technicians to create a jaw-dropping experience in 4-D, a technique that engages all the audience’s senses with digital effects, life-sized props, animation, and atmospherics as well as film and sound. Audiences will feel the tank treads rumbling across North Africa’s deserts, brush snow from their cheeks during the wintery Battle of the Bulge, and flinch as anti-aircraft fire tries to bring down their B-17 on a bombing run over Nazi Germany.
Beyond All Boundaries was produced by Phil Hettema, onetime Senior Vice President, Attraction Development for Universal Studios and President of the Hettema Group. The Los Angeles-based studio specializes in crafting immersive entertainment for Hollywood movie studios and dynamic museum exhibits such as those at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry and the Constitution Center in Philadelphia. When approached by The National World War II Museum, the heralded production team eagerly agreed to work with the New Orleans institution. The reasons were as personal as they were professional.
NARRATED BY
TOM HANKS
Featuring the voices of
ADAM BEECH
KEVIN BACON
CORBIN BLEU
PATRICIA CLARKSON
KEVIN CONNOLLY
JAMES CROMWELL
BLYTHE DANNER
VIOLA DAVIS
JESSE EISENBERG
JENNIFER GARNER
JOHN GOODMAN
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS
JAY HERNANDEZ
EMILE HIRSCH
KEVIN JONAS
TOM KANE
JUSTIN LONG
TOBEY MAGUIRE
JOSEPH MAZZELLO
PAUL MCCRANE
DARAN NORRIS
WENDELL PIERCE
CHRIS PINE
BRAD PITT
GIOVANNI RIBISI
WILLIAM SADLER
HANS SCHOEBER
SAB SHIMONO
GARY SINISE
ELIJAH WOOD
Production Credits
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: TOM HANKS
PRODUCER: THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM - DR. GORDON “NICK” MUELLER
CONCEPT, DESIGN & PRODUCTION: THE HETTEMA GROUP
SHOW PRODUCER, CREATIVE DIRECTOR:
PHIL HETTEMA
WRITER: CHRIS ELLIS
HISTORICAL CONSULTANTS & CO-WRITERS:
DR. GORDON “NICK” MUELLER, DR. DON MILLER, HUGH AMBROSE,
DIRECTOR: DAVID BRIGGS
MUSIC COMPOSER: BRUCE BROUGHTON
PROJECT DIRECTORS: THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM
BOB FARNSWORTH / THE HETTEMA GROUP
ANTHONY PRUETT
ASST. TO TOM HANKS: ALLISON DIAMOND
RESEARCH TEAM: THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM: SETH PARIDON
TOM CZEKANSKI, JOEY BALFOUR,
TOMMY LOFTON / THE HETTEMA GROUP:
DIANA CIMADAMORE, LAURA COLON,
CORRINE CUNNINGHAM
MEDIA PRODUCTION:
PRODUCER: DOUG YELLIN
PRODUCTION DESIGN: DAREN ULMER
ASSOC. PRODUCER: SUSAN BETH SMITH
VISUAL EFFECTS/POST PRODUCTION:
MOUSETRAPPE, INC
MUSIC SCORING AND CONDUCTING: TIM WILLIAMS
SOUND DESIGN AND PRODUCTION: BOB WACKERMAN, PAUL FREEMAN
AUDIO BY THE BAY PRODUCTIONS, INC.
ART DIRECTION: YAEL PARDESS
THEATRICAL PRODUCTION
SCENIC DESIGN: DANIEL IONAZZI
LIGHTING DESIGN: STEVEN YOUNG, LISA PASSAMONTE GREEN, MICHAEL MAHLUM
VISUAL TERRAIN LLC
AUDIO SOUND DESIGN: PAUL FREEMAN
TECHNICAL SUPERVISION: BOB CHAMBERS / IT’S ALIVE CO.:
TECHNICAL MANAGER:SUSAN CUMMINGS
TECHNICAL AND PRODUCTION CREDITS
3D ANIMATION: JASON McKINLEY / RADICAL 3D
LEAD COMPOSITOR: CEDAR CONNER
MEDIA PRODUCTION:
MATILDA PRODUCTION SERVICES, INC
TECHNICAL PRODUCTION & SPECIAL EFFECTS: L.A. PROPOINT, INC.
ELECTROSONIC SYSTEMS, INC.
SOUNDWORKS, BANDIT LIGHTING
RANDO PRODUCTIONS, INC., ARTISTIC ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES, LLC
ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS
CONSULTANT PROJECT DIRECTOR: LISA NASH
INSTALLATION PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
JUDD NISSEN
PROJECT COORDINATION: MATT SWEENEY
SITE COORDINATION: CURTIS PORSCHE
PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT: GEORGE WIKTOR, GUS STONE
CONCEPT PRODUCTION DESIGN: JEROME SIRLIN
CASTING SERVICES: KALMENSON & KALMENSON, INC., GUS STONE
SAG SIGNATORY: KABUKI PRODUCTIONS, INC
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David Briggs (Media Director), Bob Wackerman (Music Co-Producer - ABTB),
Phil Hettema (Show Producer and Creative Director), Tom Hanks (Executive Producer),
Timothy Williams (Musical Score - ABTB), Paul Freeman (Music Co-Producer/Sound Designer - ABTB)
Daren Ulmer (Production Designer)
- Not Pictured: Doug Yellin (Media Producer), Susan Beth Smith (Associate Media Producer).
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