Sound design: an unsung hero

 Sound design is such an intricate part of filmmaking. Sound includes the music, big sound effects like explosion to the clothes on an actor being ruffled, to dialogue. People do not often think about sound other than the musical score, but in modern days in a big production almost all the sound is done in post-production. Even the sound of iced water shaking is done in a soundproof area weeks or months after filming and the sound is done by chucking walnuts together. It is such interesting work to do and think about.

 

Sound is an important part of a modern-day movie. Sound Design gives emotions to a scene and a good film uses sounds for storytelling. And I am not only talking about dialogue, the sound effects, and the musical score in a movie that thinks about their sound design more than just putting pop music in the background, will land its story beats better and make for a better experience. Our chess film doesn't have any dialogue and has some jokes that only work with specific sound so this concept applies even more to us.

Track list for Suicide squad, August 5, 2016
Having a kind of related pop song every 2 minutes is not good sound design.

I have had prior knowledge of reading into musical motifs, different instruments, have had classes about musical theory and have played music. I had also research a lot about sound design in films before we started working our chess film and I am passionate about the subject so I chose to be the sound designer. I hope to show a good use of sound design in our film.

A sound clip of the Batmobile's engine in The Batman, March 4, 2022. This is one of my favorite sound clips of any film, The haunting sound of the engine was made using a combination of  the sound of bottle rockets going off and then doing an extreme stretch,  a reverse sound of a WW2 jeep, with a ford motor.