{"id":898,"date":"2015-02-18T14:46:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tungstenfilamentgroup.com\/blog\/?p=898"},"modified":"2015-02-18T14:46:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:46:17","slug":"cinematic-sound-design-demo-clip-dark-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/cinematic-sound-design-demo-clip-dark-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinematic Sound Design Demo Clip: Dark City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ScSkFPEkl9w?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this clip from the 1998 Alex Proyes film Dark City, I have completely replaced the soundtrack with original sound designs. I wanted to avoid using library sources so I started by recording as much as I could myself. <\/p>\n<p>For the footsteps and foley, I built a small platform using wooden pallets and scrap lumber. The rope strain sounds came from a number of different types of ropes, combined with a wicker basket that I twisted and pulled apart. All of the vocal sounds started from my voice and I used the FL Studio vocoder to impart some different texture layers to the Strangers. Although I was able to record some actual sparks with the help of my father, most of the electrical elements at the end came from an experiment with a contact mic taped to a wooden dresser with a thin chain dragged over it.  The brain creature was a combination of a squeaky keychain, synthesized elements, mouth noises, and a layer of cooked pasta for the extra squishiness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this clip from the 1998 Alex Proyes film Dark City, I have completely replaced the soundtrack with original sound designs. I wanted to avoid using library sources so I started by recording as much as I could myself. For the footsteps and foley, I built a small platform using wooden pallets and scrap lumber. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,7,9,190],"tags":[195,252,251,185,206,124,135,210],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demo-reel-2","category-general","category-movies","category-sound-design-2","tag-audio","tag-audio-post-production","tag-dark-city","tag-demo-reel","tag-foley","tag-recording","tag-sound-design","tag-sound-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}