Sound Design Assignment

What I've Learned-Sound Design

I’ve always been interested in sound design even if I've never been apart of it before, because I love music and I feel like sound can make or break a performance so there were a few things I already knew about sound design. For starters as a graphic artist I’m used to working with layers, it makes sense to me that in the same way you can layer prints and colors to form an image that you could layer sound to form a cohesive soundtrack.
One thing I knew of but had never seen done in any detail was foley work. Of course there are an endless amount of sounds out there and to make a scene really come alive there are a lot of different elements needed to keep the scene from feeling staged.
Something really interesting in sound design I learned was that even for large scale movies, the sound editing team is usually pretty small and works for a long time rather than a large team over a short span. I find it really interesting that quality and unity rank as more important than efficiency or speed. I mean they should...but they dont usually.
'ADR' was something that I'd never really heard of before. I guess it's because I never really thought about it before but the fact that in real life something would be much harder to hear than it appears in movies just didnt come up...I guess it's just something you skim over as part of "movie magic", like how noone ever has to use the bathroom in movies. While ADR isn't exactly exciting, it is interesting to know how they deal with overly noisy sets when the dialogue needs to be clear.
I didnt realize how much work went into just the sound aspect of creating a movie, that was probably the biggest surprise.


Sound Indentifying Assignment (AnikanxObiWan Battle Scene)

Music underscore (present through entirety) [Music]
Anikan talking [Dialogue/Speech]
Wind [Sound effect]
ObiWan talking [Dialogue/Speech]
Belt click [Sound effect]
Button click [Sound effect]
Anikan talking [Dialogue/Speech]
Lightsaber on [Sound effect]
Lightsaber on [Sound effect]
Anikan grunt [Dialogue/Speech]
Lightsaber hit [Sound effect]
Anikan grunt [Dialogue/Speech]
Repetitive lightsaber hits [Sound effect]
Underlying footsteps [Sound effect]
ObiWan grunt [Dialogue/Speech]
More lightsaber hits [Sound effect]
Long lightsaber hits (sound is different) [Sound effect]
Hollow thump (Anikan kicks ObiWan in chest) [Sound effect]
ObiWan grunt [Dialogue/Speech]
Small thump (When ObiWan lands) [Sound effect]
Smack [Sound effect]
ObiWan grunt [Dialogue/Speech]
Hiss [Sound effect]
More/Louder hissing [Sound effect]
Grunting [Dialogue/Speech]
ObiWan gurgling “ahhhhhh” [Dialogue/Speech]
Thump [Sound effect]
Hissing [Sound effect]
Hollow thump (enough chest kicks, Anikan!) [Sound effect]
Big crackle [Sound effect]
Thump (ObiWan kicks back) [Sound effect]
Whack (Body hitting the ground) [Sound effect]
Vortex-y vacuum noise (ObiWan getting the lightsaber) [Sound effect]
Lightsaber on [Sound effect]
Lightsaber hit [Sound effect]
More saber hits [Sound effect]
Whir of wind [Sound effect]
Lightsaber hit-hold [Sound effect]
ObiWan grunting [Dialogue/Speech]
Whoosh (They both go flying) [Sound effect]
Smack [Sound effect]
Hollow step (mid-jump-run by Anikan) [Sound effect]
Lightsaber hit [Sound effect]
Weeee-weeee-woooo-weeebbbbbbeeeeeweeeebbb  computer-y noise beep-whir thing (when the computer thing turns on) [Sound effect]