SOUND DESIGN for FILMMAKING | Tutorial

all right ladies and gentlemen today we

will take a look at the portents of

sound design in our filmmaking now I've

got an example montage here I've quickly

done up

there's no music it is purely driven by

sound design elements to help the flow

and pacing of the video and take a look

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so I only end up using 71 sounds they're

doing that 80 second or so long clip

made entirely from stock footage by the

way from art grid which was kind of

weird searching you know for shot by

keyword but I gave a shot it was new I

enjoyed the process sounds are all from

my personal essential flow sound effect

pack which we developed purely on the

basis of wanting to add more depth

emotion and just movement to your

cinematic edits now some of these sound

design elements that are included within

this edit are Rises these build over

time creating suspense and anticipation

up to a particular point and often have

a steep drop and can be used to

introduce a new section or sequence of

your phone drones and atmospheres these

add a little bit of extra depth to your

edit at the same time give you audience

some extra information with regards to

the sentiment to a motion they should be

feeling towards this particular scene

whether you're trying to convey

something that's uplifting or maybe

something that's rather intense it all

depends on the atmosphere you're trying

to portray slow motion pretty easy to

understand this is just accentuate the

slowing down of time and then the

speeding up again

time lapse now this is the opposite

where we actually want to convey the

rush and speeding up of time and now

your next category is probably the most

common and that's your transitional type

elements so this could be your classic

Basie whooshes your setbacks hits and I

mean these are there just to help

accentuate your movement help your cut

seem a bit more seamless and overall

help that edit flow and lastly we've got

some ambient textures like wind forests

or coastal environments which are there

just to make the world feel a little bit

big

now let's take a look at some of the

sequences that are remember

this is a bit exaggerated this example

in the sense that these sound effects

are here to play supporting role to your

visuals to your soundtrack where this

I've kind of just used them to create

the track itself but I think it shows

the power that sound can have within

your film so as you can see here in

Premiere Pro this is all the layers of

sound that I've added throughout the

Edit actually right down the bottom here

is a metronome at 120 beats per minute

which if we so know it one two three

four one two three four which is kind

when I use just to help the pacing of

the video before I started actually

adding in the sound effects just to make

sure that the timing was good so yeah

let's zoomin first layer I added was

just a general drone called a new day

just help the emotion I found a riser

that had a similar vibe to it

this built up all the way to the point

of the reveal the ten stream within

there we got some textural elements like

some wind this man taking a breath of

fresh air and yeah after that we kind of

move into some time-lapse with the

clouds let's mute that there's a

time-lapse and whooshing as we pass

through all these elements

now we can skip through here but as you

can see what I've done is many just

start to layer things in because

layering is definitely I'd say where the

magic happens you know all the sounds by

themselves are pretty simple and basic

but once you start to add them on top of

each other you really start to create

this unique environment for your edits

all right so we've got a whole bunch as

we I got all those layers which ended a

nice crack of thunder everything cuts

off except for this riser over here

which has been building up for a couple

shots now slowly in the background

rising rising building up again to a

particular moment and that moment being

the explosion so everything cuts off

there including this drone atmosphere

which I've kept pretty low but it builds

up as he plays on the sound board and

goes up with him again cuts off with the

explosion and there's a whole bunch of

clicks I've used for instance when he's

putting in the cassette there's this

click coupled with a few other clicks

just to add again a bit more depth we're

a bit more over here and when the

needles are going here I've added in

just a subtle little zip whoosh so you

can hear it which I think translates

quite nicely to it you know that higher

pitch to being in the red being on the

edge that Rev sort of sound

so the explosion and the flame are all

just a bunch of different transitional

elements used together and I've used

this quick exhale there to us you know

that feeling of a new beginning or just

freshness and then we cut to this

outdoor section which builds with this

riser again up to a particular moment

being as this lady puts her hands in the

air into slow motion and she puts her

hands into the air kind of you know made

me think about it's like a bird so I

used this element just thought of work

pretty well I don't know and paired with

some slow motion this base crawl slow

motion over here so just before a hand

speed ramp down and touch the water we

start to include another element here

again just to highlight the fact that

we're going into the sort of this water

sort of underworld and that plays in the

background throughout this water scene

and pulls out of it once again now I

want you to move away from the water

scene back towards more of a city scene

so I found this shot here of the man

standing looking up the window and

because it came after this shot of the

water the hues of the same we've put

some blue within there it almost looks

like he's maybe looking out towards the

ocean and because he's wearing an orange

jacket it also relates to the upcoming

shot that happened to have a lot of

orange in it so I think it works quite

well as a transitional shot there but to

add to this we've now included a subtle

coastal sort of texture in the

background so we can hear it come in now

it's very subtle but it plays over those

three shots and kind of groups them

together and makes them feel like they

belong remember sound design doesn't

have to be exact

it should never be distracting but

rather play subconscious role and

helping give more information and

details towards the scene because

remember we only use two senses when we

watch your form we use sight so

everything within this frame we're being

told what to look at but then we have

sound which is playing that supportive

role and helping our imagination fill in

the rest of the details of that scene so

we move away from this coastal sort of

scene towards this fast mechanical

element lots of clicks I actually want

to point out the one this one here I

don't know let's solo it if you're

wearing headphones right now can you

hear how the sound follows the direction

of this machine as it moves from right

to left back to right so if we look at

the panning properties we can actually

see I've done that here now this can

help sometimes just to add a bit of

dynamic sort of movement to your sounds

right so we move away into this

the time-lapse traffic type noises we

completely cut off they're too quiet you

know we've used that riser for

anticipation now we're waiting for that

green light I've used a ping as the

light comes in which is obviously not

the sound that a traffic light normally

makes when the light changes so we're

playing with various sounds from all

these different libraries remember we

can still tink and manipulate these

slightly to fit our edits and our needs

some of the tools we could use are speed

pitch we could use some reverb or even

throw on a low or high pass filter these

simple quick and easy tools can be used

just to help just that sound effect to

fit the environment for your innards so

as the light turns green we almost got

like gosh everything starts running a

great excuse to use another slow motion

type element so we've used 2 different

slow motion but see a 1 being this one

which has got a nice heartbeat sort of

element to it and we've used this other

this one over here which is almost like

the sounds like of a clock slowing down

and I think when they paired together

some quite nice right in the last few

bits and pieces have just got a whole

bunch of different sort of wishes some

fiery wishes we pull up to this world

last time absolutely where we cut

everything off when we work done here is

I've added a little ping which comes in

with this flicker of light you see in

the top right corner and so I think that

works pretty well with a bit of a flare

we've added in the heartbeat of the

astronaut as he hangs hard in space and

the last element we've used which is

obviously very unreal but just to win

the sort of vibe I remember obviously

there's typically no wind in space

but just having that slight bit of

texture there gives a sensation of

emptiness and then it just builds up

builds up until that's the end of the

video so I think I've touched on just

the basics of sound design here today

and I just want to drive home the

importance of it like I think it's such

another dimension to your visuals and

it's well worth putting in the effort so

start to learn these skills harness the

power of sound and I promise you it'll

be well well worth it now if you've got

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