sound design of star wars

[iamallthings]

"sounddesigner ben burtt's responsibility on star wars was to create specifically unusual sounds - weapons, vehicles, character and key backgrounds."

"he spent a year recording anything that could be turned upside down and backwards to make lucas world come alive."


laser blasts - the sound of a hammer on an antenna tower guy wire

lightsaber - burtt blended the sounds of his tv set and an old 35 mm projector to create the hum of a light saber

luke skywalker's landspeeder - achieved by recording the roar the los angeles harbor freeway through a vacuum-cleaner pipe.


http://filmsound.org/starwars/

[Siderealdb]

Those are actually the various sounds that Lucas makes while receiving an old fashioned. Ben Burtt just happened to be in the room with Lucas and Carrie Fisher as it went down, and it only took 3 minutes.

[deadly_habit]

http://designingsound.org/

[EDN]

Its all about the slowed down cries of elephants for the tie fighters.
That and the noise at about 55 second in this scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d91D5rb3 ... re=related
Skywalker studios just set the bar so high when it comes to sound design.

[alphacat]

Another one - for big explosions, they went to second-hand stores and bought all the big crystal punch bowls they could find; they then put 'em on the pavement upside down and slowly backed a car over them. Then they took the recording and slowed/pitched it way, way down.

When I saw this on a documentary about foley work as a kid, it made me aware of the importance (and genius) of sound fx in a movie.

[deadly_habit]

http://designingsound.org/2010/03/erik- ... interview/

trying to find the original interview on the og transformers and how the iconic morphing sound was made. i can swear the back on my brain says i read it was originally two styrofoam cups being twisted together

[alphacat]

http://designingsound.org/2010/03/erik- ... interview/

trying to find the original interview on the og transformers and how the iconic morphing sound was made. i can swear the back on my brain says i read it was originally two styrofoam cups being twisted together

Shit, one of those old Eventide Harmonizers and some creative EQ & bandpassing... you could make a fart sound like Yo Yo Ma.

[venuq]

I think someone once told me the sound of the laser beams were recorded from hitting the inside of a slinky, I remember having a listen, really weird sound.

[deadly_habit]

http://designingsound.org/2010/03/erik- ... interview/

trying to find the original interview on the og transformers and how the iconic morphing sound was made. i can swear the back on my brain says i read it was originally two styrofoam cups being twisted together

Shit, one of those old Eventide Harmonizers and some creative EQ & bandpassing... you could make a fart sound like Yo Yo Ma.

you've inspired me...


























































can we has a new production forum meme?

[alphacat]

http://designingsound.org/2010/03/erik- ... interview/

trying to find the original interview on the og transformers and how the iconic morphing sound was made. i can swear the back on my brain says i read it was originally two styrofoam cups being twisted together

Shit, one of those old Eventide Harmonizers and some creative EQ & bandpassing... you could make a fart sound like Yo Yo Ma.

you've inspired me...






can we has a new production forum meme?

Now with 8,000% less Alpacas & Ham!

WIN.

[deadly_habit]

one more

[alphacat]

This is the best I could do after thinking about it for a day...

[aspect-dubz]

as requested by legend4ry

[PERCEPT]

Where can i buy that book?

[deadly_habit]

http://www.amazon.com/Sounds-Star-Wars- ... 986&sr=8-1

[Johnst]

this thread ftw.

slowed down elephant cries? how the fuck do you think of that?

[alphacat]

OK, so I bought the book over the weekend with an xmas gift card I got from my work-

IT'S EVEN COOLER THAN YOU THINK.

At least, I think so.

What's mind boggling is how little gear was available for this stuff compared to now: a Urei filter bank, the aforementioned Eventide harmonizer, some delays and verbs... and physically manipulating the tape it was recorded on. That's about it.

This book is reminding me that I can't find my minidisc recorder for field recording, too.

[filthy_]

i wonder if ben burtt knows how to make a bass like doctor p ... lolzzzz

[alphacat]

i wonder if ben burtt knows how to make a bass like doctor p ... lolzzzz

He could do that in his sleep using only a toaster and a rubber mallet, son.

[synthless]

http://designingsound.org/

Thank you very much, Ive just found one of my new favourite websites