The Oft Overlooked Art of Sound Design

By Queuebot in Film on Jan 26, 2009 at 8:22 pm

The crack of Indy’s whip, the bleep-blips of R2-D2, and the asthmatic breathing of Darth Vader. These unique and memorable sound effects are all products of an often overlooked art form – the art of sound design. A Sound Designer’s duties include creating, editing and applying sound effects and all non-compositional elements of a film, video game, theater performance, recording or television program in what amounts to a very daunting job.

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Woogie
Jan 26th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Not overlooked by me.
Johnny Cat
Jan 26th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Me neither. It’s two of my favorite categories at the Oscars, as I try to guess which awesome entries will get the awards.
Jon C
Jan 26th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Extremely important in the movie WALL-E
Mr Buchla boy
Jan 26th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Ever since ROBOCOP won for best sound editing I have paid attention to the art of Sound Design and i work in the field now. (If you play an Alesis Keyboard i programmed the presets.)

My vote for this year are City of Ember a great sci-fi movie with a message and great sound editing. WALL-E had fantastic sound FX and i agree with its nomination.
Sara
Jan 27th, 2009 at 4:24 am
Thank you so much for this!
I’m currently in school for sound design, so it’s definitely not overlooked by me.

Currently, there’s really only two of us here. I’m focusing on sound design in theatre.
AndyArd
Jan 28th, 2009 at 3:20 am
I’ve always said of sound design that if nobody notices our work, we did our job right.

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