Sound Design: Lying To Your Ears 

Wow. You talked about Star Wars for a good chunk of this video and I heard not one Wilhelm scream. Just wow.

*These types of videos are relaxing as shit to me, especially in bed.* They make me feel cozy like a warm cat in its beanbag. I'm so grateful that film is my passion.

*To hear what True Sound Design is like* Search _"My drunk friend sent this to me at 5:01am"_ That video is a Sound Design Masterpiece

> that transition into the Dashlane ad That was smooth af, bro. I ain't even mad.

I think the most impressive thing I've ever heard is that the Reaper sound from Mass Effect is just a slightly changed bin closing

As a sound designer, I have to say, it's frustrating that so much emphasis is placed on the "deception" aspect of the work, because we all know that movies aren't real and it's not all that new or interesting to say "look we're LYING to you and you LIKE it!" To me, the most important thing about sound design is the communication, the language. I appreciate that you talk about this aspect in the video but the title still emphasizes the "lying" aspect. It's not really about tricking anyone or trying to "make" you believe something- most of us have a large library of sound fx and could conjure just about anything we want. What it's really about is character- I want you to really feel everything that a character is feeling, and I want to enhance the actor's performance. Until sound is added, since acting is generally so subtle, it will seem as if they are not showing any emotion at all. Have a character walking down the street with no clear look on their face. If the character just got fired, had an argument or something, of course I'll want to hear more noisy construction, dogs barking, traffic, etc. You will feel more of the frustration in their performance the more detail is added around them. It's all about adding detail that matches the aesthetic/character to keep the audience's feelings consistent with the character. And that just scratches the surface. The goal is not really to trick anyone, but to enhance what's already there. IMO, it's not a trick if it's exactly what the audience wants.

Iistening to this with one broken headphone just as God intended

0:41 "They'll create sounds that seem close enough to the actual thing" WAIT SO LUCAS HAS ACTUAL LIGHTSABERS SOMEWHERE

Now You Hear It

Talking of sound design, David Lynch's works are very interesting to look into as well. My word, the way he creates ambience, simply out of this world

That was an impressively smooth transition to your sponsor. I couldn't help but smile.

*_For some reasons, 'Earrape Sound Effect' is one of my favorite cinematic sound effects to date._*

5th

I can't remember where I heard this, but the foley artists of Indiana Jones had a fun time trying to figure out the punch sound effect. They would hit various objects themselves with their own fists, but punching doesn't have the same _"POW!"_ sound effect that we've been conditioned to hearing. They needed sound with a clear pop but at the same time was satisfying to the ear so the viewer can feel a sense of catharsis as Indy triumphs over the bad guys The method they ended up landing on to get the sound (and don't ask me how they thought to try it) was throwing a wet leather jacket in front of a moving truck. The weight of the jacket smacking into the momentum of the truck generated such a satisfying sound that it was replicated in almost every action movie that followed, and now we are so accustomed to the fake sound instead of the real one making movies almost more influential on our perspectives than real life.

the importance of the art of sound design can not be overstated. I cant count how many times I've played an indie game that had a promising story or art style but was brought down by boring or simply bad sound design.

Love the video, but I wish you would show more examples of the sound design you're talking about and slow down the video enough to let us hear it for ourselves. The pace was too fast and it drove me crazy.

I love this video! I never thought about why sound designers exaggerate sound or stray from reality, and I assumed it was just for drama or theatricality. I didn’t think it could be so effective in telling a story, thanks for bringing this up.

I really enjoyed this video, but I really wish sometimes we could get just a fraction of a second more between your sentence ending and the sound we're listening for to start. I get there's good reasons not to but personally it takes a moment to kinda switch gears. Also there's a couple times where you're straight talking over the sound you're describing (the John Wayne gunshots for one). Still, always great to watch your work.

I Love your work! It’s very interesting and educational! Appreciate your time of teaching!

yeah, the sound effects in scott pilgrim does give the movie a little extra oomph

Finally these JBL speakers away from my face are going to pay off.

You never disappoint dude, this was amazing

Ive been looking for a video like this for a long time . thank u

Man I absolutely adore this stuff. Looking at all these tricks going on behind the scene is like watching a magic trick in action!

Thank you for this vid !It makes my little sound designer student heart happy ! I was working on a play and I had to used like 15 different sounds to make only one explosion sound.

Man, I wish you upload more frequently, I just re-binged your videos, keep up the good content!

Every time I see one of these in my feed I get so excited

These are the kind of Channels I love subscribing to.

Sometimes difficult to really listen to the sounds you're describing when you're talking over 80% of it and only give us 1-2 seconds to actually listen to it. For example, we only hear the bacon sounds once we're looking at the bacon-we don't get the chance to be sold on the illusion you're describing. Wouldn't it have been better for you to go, "listen to this," show us the rain, then cut to the bacon that's actually making the sound? No breathing space/room.

Ayeeeee! I love your videos so much.

One of the smoothest sponsored segment segues I have seen on RU-vid. Bravo good sir.

You missed a great talking point in Saving Private Ryan! One of my absolute favorite things about SPR is the lack of a musical score. Save for a couple of emotional scenes, the orchestra is silent during the battles. In the scene where Carparzo is shot, there is a neat little trick. Carparzo is standing in front of a dilapidated piano at the moment he is shot. Instead of adding a musical sting, the bullet penetrates his body and strikes the piano. This causes a dramatic discordant sound that is completely natural to the shot. He even drags his hands over the keys as he falls down. To me, it seems they planned this effect well before it got to post. I thought that was so cool and I've never seen anyone mention it before.

Incredible sound design

This was a fantastic video essay - really enjoyed this different perspective over the visuals. :)

Great stuff, thankyou. I’m particularly fascinated with sound design in radio drama, love the innovative, from scratch creativity of it! // my fave sounds in film are probably ‘Close Encounters’ the whole ‘lights down’ and communication sequence, and Forbidden Planet, the invisible entity, bloody terrifying

dude what seamless promo! hahaha I liked this a lot.

And I thought I couldn't love Saving Private Ryan more than I already do...

Incredible analysis, keep it up!

This may be your best video essay yet.

such great films discussed in this essay, great job mate

i love the bit from private Ryan with the rain and then it slowly turns into gun fire into the distance is so smart thinking and it shows what ww2 was like as well in a single sound and a powerful meaning of bullet raining down on soldiers

I freaking love this video

The classic cruiser klaxon from Star Wars is so iconic and one of my favorite sounds from cinema

awesome vid man🙌

Awesome video, thank you Listening to all of these ideas, Its truely amazing how creative ppl can be :O

New upload?! Today is a good day

Tarkovsky had great sound design.

Out of all the video essayists on RU-vid this guy is easily the most interesting

And now I hear it. Thanks buddy

I liked the video before watching because I already knew it would be awesome

Great stuff ❤️

I’m going to school for sound design this fall so this video was amazing!

Reminds me of the Neo vs Smiths fight in "the matrix reloaded". They went a little overboard with the bowling pin sounds of Smiths falling over, lol.

that was a damn fine ad transition

YESSSSS A NEW VID

You know you are watching a seasoned youtuber when how effortlessly they glide into the promotional pitch at the end. 😜😜 Great video as always.

Great content. I'm still amazed how you pull your sponsors in like a knife on butter.

Once Upon a Time in the West / spaghetti westerns used cannon fire for gunshots. Thanks for that bit.

I will never look at movies the same way again...I'm still thinking about the bacon thing.........

Jeez man, don't give all of the tricks away! ;)

Fantastic

Spot on analysis of this movie topic! Love for eg. the hole sound design of John Woos Face/Off from start to finish. Memorable scene in sound design: The Tyrannosaurus Rex scene of 1st Jurassic Park scarred hole movie audience. It used back in the early 90s as the first movie the new DTS format to the max! 🦖😱🍿

+Now You See It I must say, this was a brilliant video about a topic very few viewers/listeners would care to notice; leaving the recognition to a percentage of people who are interested in foley or who have a natural curiosity outside of the general populations reception of cinema and all its facets. In actuality, that is, perhaps, the very goal of foley; nonetheless-create (and manipulate) sounds from infinite combinations of stimuli, then pair them with motion photography to deliver a cohesive (even if the scene itself intentionally has juxtaposing visual and audio qualities) scene that keeps the audience engaged with the film, and ultimately, the plot/stories within. I’ve always appreciated the subtleties that make up a motion picture and really, any type of video production-its why I was always the guy in my group of friends to be “behind the boards,” when it came time to film & edit our skate videos of our early teen years. I would tweak out over matching, absolutely perfectly, certain scenes and sounds, that often times went unnoticed; especially when showing a skater their video part, since they cared only to fawn over themselves. Haha. Which I can’t be too mad about, as I want them to “recognize,” my efforts as well; it’s all ego at the end of the day, right? I digress... I would like to add, or suggest really, that you take a look at the original Jurassic Park movies behind the scenes look into foley. There are some iconic traits in that movie that were interesting to see how they were created. I won’t give away too much, since I do think you would enjoy the video, but some examples are the sound the T-Rex makes along with the sound (and visuals) that alerted the siblings and the man watching them that the T-Rex was fast approaching, while they were stopped in their disabled vehicles. The rippling water in the plastic cup was the stimulus in that scene that picked up the force of the T-Rex’s approaching steps, and the rippling effect was so much harder to create than we all probably appreciated. Regardless, the effects team used a guitar string being plucked to create that (which I believe took extremely long to discover) and the T-Rex roar was a collection of various animal vocals combined at different levels. Those were some highlights from that behind the scenes footage-I honestly thought I might see some of that in this video. Nevertheless, this was quality work! Keep it up! For what it’s worth, check out that Jurassic Park behind the scenes video; it can’t be that hard to find, it’s definitely interesting. Videos like that and cast & crew commentaries were always DVD features that I had to watch when I was younger because I always found such gems of movie making while checking them out. Peace! 🤙🏽

Perfect transition to the ad!

Jacques Tati's Playtime has the best use of sound to make comedy

i fucking love your videos please never stop uploading

Good sounds, these are. Approve of the video, i do

Here a few minutes after publishing....very interesting and well said!!

That is the slickest segway I've ever heard 👌 lol

Great vid

you just used two of my favoutie movies back to back in american psycho and the naked gun

these videos are so relaxing I think I'm gonna fall asleep to this

I'm doing an online film class rn and I'm muted and we're doing sound so hi I'm here so I can answer things and sound really smart in class ty

Now every time there's rain in a movie, I'll get hungry for bacon... Thanks x)

For the scene in American psycho, is that the actual sound of a sword being unsheathed or just the sound we've come to associate with that from media? Actual sheaths don't have metal inside while the classic 'sword unsheathing' sound is the sound of scraping metal. Another really interesting layer of sound trickery!

I honestly thought the tie fighter sounds were from the Doppler effects of passing semi-trucks. They create a nearly identical sound to what is heard in those movies.

It should be pointed out that real life gunshots actually are very loud and "heavy", similar to how they are in the movies. The reason they sound different on the news or in videos is because they're not recorded with proper high quality microphones that capture the full range and "bass" of the sound. If you stand right next to an AK being fired in real life it literally sounds like a KABOOM, while seeing it fired on the news it just sounds like a pop.

Dude it's been a month already. I crave for more D:

The lie of sound also works in video games, for example in Mark of the ninja, you hear thunder before it flashes to warn you to seek cover before the place is illuminated and put your character in the risk of being seen.

That was the best sponsor segway I have ever seen.

that sponsor transition was smooth as heck

That is the smoothest ad imsert in my life

The sound design of hacksaw ridge was actually really good, not sure why you used that one as an example of 'everything sounding the same'

This needs to be posted on your second channel Now You Hear It

This reminds me, I still have a lot of movie to watch.

thank god a new video

I was surprised that no Tarantino films were shown for this video. Some of his movies have the boldest sound design I've heard

4:21 keanu reeves is breathtaking

I would’ve mentioned The Final Master for its sword and blade sound effects in place of physical hits during some battles. Maybe even The LEGO Movie for its literal “Pew pew pew” sound effects for laser fire.

That was the latest sponsorship transition :D

greaat video and lotsf of good info but it would have been nice to actually hear more of the examples youre describing

Damn it, I knew the sound of rain always made me hungry for some reason!

I always liked the sound design of Lilo and Stitch, particularly when Lilo shakes her weird jar of green liquid and when Nani runs on wooden surfaces. It just sounds like childhood to me. Anyone else with similar experiences?

Every frame a painting would be proud

No one gonna mention how there shouldn't even be sound in *space?*

I wouldn't call it "lying", persay. It's more as if you're representing the world the way it ought to *feel,* rather than how it's supposed to *sound.*

Now I Hear It

Disappointed you didn’t use the shootout in Heat for this video

Hmm that must be why rain makes me crave a fry up.

Sound in space, very believable