Sounddesign for Movies

What is sound design?

Let’s talk about sound in movies: What do you think how much percent of the sounds you hear are actually the oones recording on the set?

How did they manage to syncronise sound to comics in the 1930ties?

a quick history of sound in movies (Why is it calledFoley?)

It was a real performance like in Radioplays :

Project overview

  • studying an example Incredible Wildlife:

let’s do out own

Let’s have a look at this 9 second scene I took from Artlist: A puffin on Faroe Island

making a storyboard

  • what elements are in the scene?
    • How do they sound?
    • What is the vibe/mood?
    • How important are the different elements
  • What is NOT visible, but could be in the movie, because it is audible?
look for sounds to download: Sources for sound effects for free:
BBC Sound
FREE SOUND - with registration
xeno-canto
pixabay
freemusicarchive.org
fieldrecordingproject

Find and download sounds. Let’s see how to put the video in.

  • Open a new project and save it to a folder.
  • import video
  • import sound files and adjust
  • evaluate if you need any more sound and repeat
  • as so many times before, it is an iterative process.

You we have a somewhat finished version, we will quickly talk about the export process. And finally upload your result.