Resources. Sound FX: Think Outside the Source. Sometimes a source making one sound can be perceived as something else entirely, if you don't know what it is.
Things are not always as they sound. What do you hear when you see a huge knife slice through a big, wet head of lettuce? What about when you see somebody's finger circling around the edge of a goblet or glass? What sound comes to mind when you see hands squeezing a balloon until it pops? Think outside the sound effects description on your CD library. As you continue to read, I encourage you to think outside the source.
Experiment a Little Take a few hours to assess your household items, even the equipment you have in your editing room. In preparation for this column I went around picking out all kinds of silly things to make a sound from - keys, coins in a plastic container, pills in a plastic pill bottle, a faucet dripping into a crab boiler, bank ATM receipts flapping... you get the idea. I was surprised at what I heard upon transferring these sound bytes to my audio editor. It's Foley Time. Imagine the sounds of a good Western without the sound effects of horses, gunshots, bar scenes and a fist fight.
Your soundscape is just as important as your visualscape. As the sun sets in some anonymous Western town, we watch a poker game unfold in the local saloon. As the camera moves in on the poker table, we see a couple of bar patrons enjoying themselves as they slap each other on the back and shuffle across the wooden floor. Just as they clear the shot, our hero is wrongly accused of cheating and a fight breaks out. Chairs and punches fly as our hero gets in a few good hits before two thugs grab and hold him for the villain. Thank You, Mr. In Hollywood, Foley can be a verb, a noun and a proper noun. The big-time Foley artists have several specialized tools at their disposal. Of course, humans do more than just walk, and the Foley artist must recreate these sounds too. Capturing the Action Mixing the Magic Remember those footsteps we recorded earlier?
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The Legacy Of Polish Poster Design. Advertisement Before the era of globalized entertainment made movie posters look the same in every country, Polish artists were creating their own versions for the internal market.
What resulted was a whole school of artists trained in the art of the poster. This article presents a short historical look at how this movement was born and how it developed, form its art-related beginnings at the end of the 19th Century to the golden era of the film posters throughout the 20th Century. The Beginnings Toward the end of the 19th Century Poland was still absent from the maps. Krakow was populated by writers, poets and artists who had travelled Europe and had come in contact with the modernist cultural trends of the time. The first Polish posters appeared in the 1890′s at the hand of outstanding painters like Jozef Mehoffer, Stanislaw Wyspianski, Karol Frycz, Kazimierz Sichulski and Wojciech Weiss. Jozef Mehoffer – Furniture Lottery for Matejko’s House (1899) Jan Bulas – Symphonic Concert (1910).
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