File Hosting Website

I found a website which seems to be ok for uploading files, its very straightforward to use, but comment if you know a better one. Its called eSnips.

As a test for this upload website, here's an Ambient Recording i made outside uni today, give it a download if you get a chance (its 22mb, so might take about 10 mins on a 4mb 'medium' package from virgin media).

Quality: 24bit 44.1Kbps,
Mic: Sony ECMDS70P,
Length: 1:28
Slightly EQ'd + cropped, no other processing applied.
Date: 26-02-08

One last thing, here's a great picture of David Hasselhoff for you to admire.

Cheers,

Tom

Every Student

Make your own Post to say what your practical work will entail:

• The clip(s) you're using


• The Sound Technique(s) you're employing


• The equipment list


• The prop or sound source list

My tutorial idea - Mike

I will be trying to make the sound of someone being hit over the head with a frying pan in a fight.
I'll be using a frying pan and hitting it on the floor, and with a variety of objects to create the oakey timbre of a skull.
Mike Rushton

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Some Flash Sound sites

Check out some Sound Designers web sites:

• iam-studios and select Fullscreen mode.


• Wave Sound Deisgn and Audio Post-production


• Factory Studios Ltd

Sound Technique Tutorials

THIS WEEK (20): Please find and bring the following things to tutorials.

• Clips - small sections of movies that will inspire us to make an alternative sound tracks. We will make a spotting sheet for the clips. You may wish to find clips with Dialogue to do an ADR session.


• Objects to make sound effects and ideas for sound to add to a sound effect library.


• Dialogue or music clips that could be used to accompany movie clips.

Always bring some form a media to which you can save your work, e.g. a hard drive, a USB Flash drive, Recordable CD-Rom or DVD-Rom.
Use the COMMENTS facility here to make further suggestions and communicate to us what you are going to do.

Some More Useful Articles

Interview with three hollywood ADR mixers
Includes Tips and techniques

How to use good sound design in your music post-production work
Includes some sound design techniques and audio examples

Interview with sound designer Scott Gershin
His work includes American Beauty, the Chronicles of Riddick and Shrek

The process of working with sound for picture.
Talks through some processing and editing techniques

Recording the Spoken Word
Guide to setting up and editing for voice over work

Square One: Loud and Clear
More on vocal processing

SoundSnap
Free quality samples for download, includes Wav (Much better than freesound.com)

How to read a book for free on Amazon
This works for the book "Audio Vision - Sound On Screen" by Michel Chion
Type in the word "sound" and it pretty much opens up every page of the book.
Useful if you just want to reference something from it.
(You have to be registered with Amazon)

I enjoyed surfing this site the other week.

From: www.epicsound.com/sfx
Example:

Bones crunching and breaking

I personally like putting things in (cooked) whole chickens and then beating the chicken with a sledge hammer or other bludgeoning device. Billiam Baker

Celery/Carrots/Little Gem Lettuce - try freezing them too. Jacob's melon - melon with jacob’s cream crackers glued on it. Thin triple sheet plywood left to soak outside in the rain then dried in the sun and torn apart, snapped. Real Bones? Dog Chews? Branch snap + filter? Ben Minto

In addition to your regular mic, try using a contact mic on a slightly resonant surface, such as plywood, and crunch things with your boot. Use the contact mic material for the thick, heavy sweetener. Make sure the crunching items are hard enough to transmit vibration to the plywood. Walnuts have worked well for me. Kristoffer Larson

Raw corn. Get it with as much of the leafy stuff still on it as possible - good fresh corn. Works great for wet solid punches. Coll Anderson

I used acorns, small apples and walnuts on wooden parquet surface. Worked nice. Alexey Menshikov

Chris Sweetman told me a good technique for getting a really effective bone breaking noise. Chicken bones in a polystyrene cup, break and snap them together. Patrick Phelan

Crushing plastic drinks machine cups are meant to be good for bones breaking. Paul Arnold

Dried sunflower stalks. Charles Maynes

A few links that may be of use

Here a few links about how to make certain sound effects that might be of use for the last assignment:

http://www.filmsound.org/:
Pretty good in general. Has details of how they made some of the Star Wars effects.

http://www.essortment.com/freesoundeffec_rrhm.htm:
This has a short but quite useful list of effects.

http://www.radiohour.wrek.org/links/uscolosfx.html:
Another short list of different effects.

http://www.marblehead.net/foley/index.html:
Some useful info in the "How it's done" section.


A video of a guy making various swooshing noises.

Film Sound Techniques

Assignment 3

Foley Fight

1. Impacts - Melons, steak, cabbage, carrots, crow-bar
2. Swish - whip, cheese grater to piece of string.
3. Thuds - dropping heavy things.
4. Slapping -
5. Grunts -
6. Splats -
7. Breathing -
8. Breaking Glass -
Foley these using a MIDI keyboard or editor.

Foley Footsteps

1. Shoes - trainers, (hi-heels), flip flops, boots, leather soles.
2. Surfaces - sand, grass, gravel, tile, lino, carpet, concrete
> Recording Foley Footsteps - from Blip.tv
> Foley Footsteps Demo - from Audiolicense.net

ADR

1. Voice
2. Dialogue
3. Movie Clip
4. Script

Sound Effect Audio Processing

Creative use of in-sync and out-of-sync sound/music

Diegetic/non-diegetic music tricks

Music Composition

Pre-recorded music (e.g., commercial music, "classical" music)