There are a lot of sound creation in the video game industry. It helps add more playability and more feel of the game your playing to make you remember some good parts of the game. some developers from games hire full set of orchestras they have to pay to create great music for great games
it helps the games performance improve and creates an ambience feeling in the game to match the area the game is in for instants eerie music for horror games, loud banging noises for actions ext
Sound design is the art and practice of creating sound tracks for a variety of needs. … Sound design commonly involves performing and editing of previously composed or recorded audio, such as sound effects and dialogue for the purposes of the medium.
Basic Job Description: The Sound Designer is responsible for obtaining all sound effects, whether recorded or live for a specific production. He/She is also responsible for setting up the sound playback equipment and must make sure the board operator is properly trained.
instruments in sound creations. Drums/Percussion, Guitar/Bass, Horns, Orchestral, Piano/Keyboard, Sound Design, Synth/Electronic, Vocal
There are many other types of sound creation such as Foley. foley is used in many instances as a piece of sound to instil ambience and atmosphere whether its in a movie, or animation or even game. Foley can be cheap or expensive if you want the specific sound you need however foley is definitely tedious and time-consuming as many foley sound engineers want to find the perfect physical prop for their made world. Here is a video of some sound engineers practicing foley from Disney.
Another sound creation technique is over dubbing and spot effects. Overdubbing is where a voice actor speaks over an already recorded scene you can. see this in various films and if done wrongly can turn out to be horrific. Spot effects are similar but are sound effect placed in after the recording at the precise moment of an object or movement in the scene.
There is also other sound creation in adverts such as car adverts to make the car sound more powerful and atmospheric with sound creation and sound effects.
Sound creation is also used in the theatre such as background sound effects or props sounds on stage, either they would use foley or again sound effects from an effects library.
There are many types of sound creation styles such as
Spot effects(see above)
Voice overs/overdubbing(see above)
Effects libraries are big storage areas that holds up to thousands of sounds in some these effects can be used to be added after recording or during a show.
Sound synthesis is the technique of generating sound, using electronic hardware or software, from scratch. The most common use of synthesis is musical, where electronic instruments called synthesisers are used in the performance and recording of music.
Ambience is the recorded sound outside that given impression of the atmosphere or adds and atmosphere to the subject.
Underscore is the music played under a show or movie to add a background atmosphere as well. It is used inn movies for example you can hear the background underscore from this film clip.
This clip is from baby driver and the underscore is used by Edgar wright to highlight the scene and how the characters are themselves highlighting ‘baby’ as the bystander as the underscore cuts due to gunfire.
2 Examples
- TV ad
- Movie trailer
Tv advert. In this advert they use loads of drum sounds, a voice over and environment sounds.
In this movie trailer they use music, voices, envorment noises, sound effects, crashing sounds to make the clip look good so that people watch it.
Here is my piece. I did a piece for the iphone advert.
I did iphone advert
Here is the underscore
Here are the voice bits
Here is the ambience
Here is the synths
I changed the sound
Unit 4 Review
My sound piece for my advert works well because I used synths for my piece which create a vibrant and spacious atmosphere for the iphone x advert. It really goes well with the piece.
By making my iphone advert I ihad to look at the advert and try find a sound to match it so I used synths. I messed around with the synths and got some nice sounds.
Then I used a bass line.
Then I had to think real hard on what else to put for this advert which could go with the synths and bass. Then I realised I was thinking too hard about its and instead of putting instruments I should put audio on it instead so I asked my teacher to lend his voice.
I think the strengths are the audio and the synths
I think my weaknesses are the bass.
Improvements
My bass needs to be be a bit more on time with the synths so it can sound perfectly.