Thursday, 14 December 2017

Sound Clip notes

This are the sound that I need to do:


Foley with a friend - Improvised mic stand

This is what it looked like being in the foley.
I had to improvise a mic stand as I didn't have on for this mic kind of mic.

New Playlist - home

I recorded some sound at home and here you will find them:

Wednesday, 13 December 2017

Which one is bacon?

Today in class we watched a really interesting video.

Gary Roger Rydstrom

An American sound designer, director,re-recording mixer, effects mixer and foley mixer.
He started his career at Skywalker Sound, Northern California in 1983.
Offered the job by a college professor, Gary received the opportunity to work with his mentor, Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt.

Rewards:
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  • BEST SOUND EDITING -Golden Reel Award- for:
-Hercules
-A bug’s life
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-Atlantis - the Lost World
- War Horse
  • C.A.S Awards- for: 
-Titanic,
-Saving private 
-Ryan,
-Brave
  • BEST SOUND - Bafta Award for: Saving private Ryan and Terminator 2
  • BEST SOUND - Academy Award for:
-Terminator 2
-Jurassic Park
-Titanic
-Saving Private Ryan

Terminator 2: Judgment day - foley

Here are some interesting facts about the making of Terminator 2.

For the transformation sounds Rydstrom was spraying Dust-Off into a flour and water mixture, with a condom-sealed mic stuck in the goo. The Dust-Off would make huge goopy bubbles.
The moment the bubble is forming, it has this sound that is similar to a cappucino maker or a milk steamer.
The slowly forming bubble has a metallic quality to it. It also had an evolving quality. The sound seemed to fit because it had beginning and an end

The sound of the crushed skull is actually a pistachio beeing crunched by a metal plate.

Foley Studio

Today I went to record the sound for my clip. I totally failed!! A had to spend 20£ on pizzas for the 3 guys I've got with me, as I couldn't figure out why the sound wasn't enterig in Audition even if I was doing everything okay.
So I wasted 4 hours of booking and 4-5 hours of other people's time! I felt so ashamed! I even emailed my tutor at 9 p.m and put URGENT in the title so maybe he will respond. Well, he did but still nothing worked.
And after 5 hours of nothing it turns out that I wasn't recordin in 16bit, I was using everything else instead of 16.
This is the look of the guys that would've killed me as I wasted their time for nothing.

Thursday, 7 December 2017

Sounds from Brighton - Homework task

My homework task for this week was to record sound from certain places from Brighton like:
Brighton Train Station
South and North Laines
Brighton Pier
Seaside
London Road Open Market.
You can find them all on my playlist. Be careful because some of them may be too loud.

Ben Burtt, Wall-E and Star Wars


New playlist - doors at Silverstone

Here is my playlist with home made sounds. Mostly bathroom doors and entrance.

Play time

Today was the first time we got our own sounds. It was fun playing.