Shannon Mills Avengers Endgame Audio interview

Hello fellow button pushers!

After seeing Avengers Endgame I was in awe over how the entire production team made this gigantic scale of a film possible. Since the spoiler lift from the russo brothers happened we now get to see some of the set videos and some articles about how this was possible.

One article I love is an article from a sound effect. In an interview with the supervising sound editor of skywalker sounds Shannon Mills, they dicect how certain parts of the film were done and how they were able to do the sound design for what I would say is one of the biggest battle scenes in modern movie times.

Take a read of the article here! You won't regret it!

A Quiet Place

I finally got around to watching the film A Quiet Place and from an audio point of view, it is one of the most sonically pleasing movies I have watched. When you have a film that has little to no dialogue it does put a big focus on the sound design and every single little detail of the world gets heard. I found a video on Soundworks Collection that explains that this was a hard task to accomplish and that people when they were coming out of the theatre would be more aware of the sounds around themselves in the real world. This is a strange but satisfying feeling you get after watching the film because you are aware of your surroundings more and you appreciate the sounds of the country when you are outside of the city!

Here is the Soundworks Collection video I found that goes a little into the sound of the film.

What I am interested in the most at the moment is the vocalisation of the creatures in the movie! I'm going to be fiddling around with my voice and using DSP to create some strange sounding effects within the next few days! Im planning to keep this blog running as it should be as I do have a tendency to keep random on the side experiments under wraps. This video with Jim Stout shows some of the things you can do with a vocoder to create some horrifying monster noises!