The Beautiful Lies of Sound Design | Tasos Frantzolas | TEDxAthens 

great now I'm hungry.

DJ Shuffle r u a foley artist?

DJ Shuffle did u hav to get a degree of some kind? Or is it on the job training

Its sort of both. I studied Audio Production which included a brief overview of Foley and Sound Design. After doing some research I bought some equipment (portable recorder and a shotgun microphone) and began experimenting. My university also did courses in film production and animation, so I teamed up with a few students who were also experimenting with different techniques and had lots of small projects that didn't lead anywhere. I asked them if I could record Foley and create Sound Design for their test projects, to which they happily agreed. Next thing I know, they began working on their major projects and required sound. They remembered me and asked if I was willing to participate. Up to this point I gathered enough experience to know what I'm doing and how to achieve certain effects. I agreed and we got some great films and animations together. Using their work as examples of past work, I asked around local post production studios and I managed to find a place. I got further training from a fellow experienced Foley artist working there, which mainly included breathing techniques (to minimise interference) and fine tuning my synchronisation.

thanks!! where abouts are u based?

Any shotgun will do, in fact, almost any decent mic will do. How your room sounds is 100 times more important than your mic. Little noise, little reverberation/echo is what you're looking for, with a solid floor (if your house is made of wood it's gonna be trouble, your footsteps are always gonna have some extra boxy low-mids). Best tip to learn foley is to see someone else do it. So ask for internships at any studio that does foley, or even people that do it independently. If there's a college in your city that teaches audio, at bare minimum one of the teachers probably does sound design as a freelancer, ask him if he needs an intern and that you will bring him coffee and tidy the place up and clean up the place if he teaches you. Work is cheaper than any college, and you learn more if your boss is good.

Of course you can. You can also use silence for bacon frying video. Creates a lot of tension with you and the producer, and the director, and finally, the audience (if it happens to have one) ;-)

I did some experiments so here are my results: DO NOT FRY BACON IN THE RAIN

Belated LOL, *Justinas Nargela* - Good one! (I'm late to this video as you can see).

I would like to make an edit where right after he says that, it cuts to the ending with him saying "Thank You"

Guido Flichman It's been seven months, where is it

Lol I'm imagining someone literally waiting 7 months to see if the edit was was made, checking back every few weeks hoping to god the comment hasn't been buried by comments like "Fart at 00:12" and "MORGAN FREEMAN + REVERB = GOD" (which is the only true thing that's been said thus far), only to get frustrated enough after 7 months to write, "It's been seven months! WHERE IS IT!!!!!???"

@@abrampainter3764 waiting for this edit tbh

that wasn't real applause.

Well, there was that one along time ago where the guy focuses and directs sound across the audience with some device, that was neat

+Adam Bechtol Interesting. What was it called?

Your profile picture had me trying to clean my phone screen for five minutes

are you in Texas? if so, I gotta chat with you re: sound design :-)

My newborn baby's screams are perfectly suitable for sudden scared woman scream sounds. He starts with whining like engine sounds before the drag race. At around 4th or 5th step he makes his peak sound which is that screams. :D

Oh and I believe with a little bit editing, you can make lots of usefull sound effects from his long and juicy farts :D

Never let anyone tell you that cinema is exclusively a visual medium.

It was adequate. But of course not perfect. But was only the words that were important. It was not a vocal in a musical piece. A narrator versus vocals in movies or music has very different requirements. Accuracy is not important in speech. But clearness and easy to discern words are. In my mind the only negative about the sound on his mike was because it was placed slightly too close to the airflow from the mouth creating popping sounds.

@@brysenbowie4024 Thats an invasion of her privacy, bud. Not a good look

Also bacon.

DaikFlowkes DaikFlowkes & The Cabbage Stabbers would make a great band name. 😎

Bacon

Wow.. ..for whatever reason, I read your comment and read "fart" sounds (instead of "fake"), not once.....but twice - reading it at the end of the first sentence. Needless to say, my version of the comment was much more entertaining.

There's a surprisingly non-subjective and technical answer to your question. Both sounds are made out of many tiny random events: rain sounds are made of thousands of raindrops impacting. Bacon, hundreds, perhaps thousands of tiny bubbles splattering. Both are in a similar frequency range. So you have two sounds that share the similarity of being a composite of many tiny random events, and what you hear is the result of all of that. These can be modeled as stochastic (random events in a fixed range over time) processes and you can simulate a lot of sounds pretty easily with common stochastic sound design tools, from applause, to leaves in trees to fire (think of what the sound of plastic crumpling is made of--many tiny creaking sounds, whereas fire is made of many tiny cracks as gas escapes the wood etc). Stochastic sounds are found throughout the natural and manmade world and there's been research into this since the mid 20th century, starting with Iannis Xenakis. So yeah, this isn't just because of deception--the sounds share real similarities in their properties. You can also use rice to simulate the sounds of rain quite effectively, for the same reason--just put a bunch of dry grains in a container and shake it around. Sound designers have used this trick for decades.

The point makes a lot of sense. That's true. But how we are conditioned so..? is a question worth consideration..We always are fed up with the shabby boring life..We keep looking for fantasy..Something that has more effect in our sense than real. Cinema definitely is designed for fantasy. Real elements are very cleverly blended with this design to outsmart the brain of audience.

The reason artificial banana flavor tastes different is because its supposed to taste like an extinct species of banana. Today's bananas are called cavendish bananas and taste completely different. So, not the best analogy

Sound Design...

too much gate...

That's because of the noise gate. Pretty badly set up

ok now I know I'm not the only one

I'd think HE out of all people would do a better job, so it's the noise gate.

Hahaha

No.

@@EminoMeneko yes

😂😭 true!

I was thinking the same hahaha