Ronnie Leah, BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts, UCA Rochester.

 Ben Burtt Ben Burtt is a voice actor, screenwriter, director, film editor, but importantly, a sound designer. I thought given his range of skills and many years working within different parts of the film industry, he would be perfect to do my sound designer profile on. He has worked on many huge franchises including the Star Wars and Indian Jones franchises, as well as landmark films including ET and Wall-E. He is the man who popularized the famous Wilhelm scream, which has had a massive impact on pop culture even today. Further famous sound created for the Star Wars universe include R2D2's robotic voice, The humming for the lightsabres, The sounds the Ewoks make, Darth Vader's famous breathing and the blaster sounds for the guns. Instead of using electronic sounds found in sci-fi films at the time, Burtt wanted to provide his version with a more natural sound. This lead him to record sounds such as the blasters by hitting a guy wire on a radio tower with a hammer.   He ...

 Below are the three soundscape clips I have completed for the project and a reflective statement about the unit as a whole. With the first sound I tried to create the sound of water dripping into a void. I got a sort of endless vibe from the picture as if each of the blue lines were dripping into the unknown. I used the spinning of a microwave to create the endless cycle of the void, adding a phaser effect to make it fluctuate more rapidly. The sound then moves on to the sound of draining water, to demonstrate the water being pulled to the void. I recorded my bath draining to get this sound and made it a deeper sound in Audition. You can then hear the sound of running water, which I got from recording my tap. This sound is more quiet compared to the others and continues to represent the water being pulled. As the sound continues you then hear the dripping of water. I thought it would be a good end as it represents the water running out.  The next image reminded me of the crac...

  This sound is the sound running water which I got from recording my tap. I put it on a low pressure to ensure it sounded like the natural falling of water to match the image.  I got this sound from recording the draining of water from my bath. I recorded the dripping of the water from the tap for this one.  This is the sound of running water I captured from recording my tap running. This is the sound of my microwave I captured to represent the sound of the void for the image.  This is the sound of a Coke can being crushed. This is meant to represent the cracking of the ice I got this sound by hitting two metal spoons together and is meant to represent something hitting the ice to make it crack. This is the sound of static recorded by changing the channel to FM on the radio.  This was recorded by running my finger along a spring connected to my microphone.  For this sound I recorded my electric toothbrush. I moved the toothbrush towards and away from the m...

 

 Today we were introduced to the Soundscapes Project.  The three images I received are below, I began listing words of sound that I associate with the pictures.