The Oft Overlooked Art of Sound Design

Posted by Queuebot in Movies & SciFi on January 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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6 comments to "The Oft Overlooked Art of Sound Design"

  1. Woogie
    January 26th, 2009 at 8:47 pm

    Not overlooked by me.

  2. Johnny Cat
    January 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.

  3. Jon C
    January 26th, 2009 at 11:06 pm

    Extremely important in the movie WALL-E

  4. Mr Buchla boy
    January 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.

  5. Sara
    January 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.

  6. AndyArd
    January 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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