Sound is an integral part of any film. Some even say that the quality of a moving picture is 50% sound. Iconic sound design as seen in Jurassic Park or Star Wars have created their own worlds and defined a genre. Sound creates reality, makes things believable but also influence the emotion of a scene enormously. That's what we want to focus on in this exercise.

Since last year was requested to get more time to work alone - this time you are free to decide if you want to work on your own or in teams of two. 

What to do

• Pick one of the three film scenes that we have provided for you (links down below)
• Define for yourself what the content of the scene is.
• Think of how you want to set the mood of the scene through sound. This can be any of the following or something else:
  • happy / uplifting
  • romantic
  • danger / suspense
  • sad / dark
  • funny / comedic
  • …
• What kind of "foley onscreen-sounds" do you need? 
• What is happening off-screen?
• Plan what you need and put your sounds on a graph like the example below. Do this with both moods.
• Take your scene into any DAW (digital audio workstation) or NLE (nonlinear editing software) and create a soundtracks from scratch.

Film 1

Film 2

Film 3

You can use any sound you can find on the internet. If you find sounds that are not in the public domain or free of licence you can use them for the screening in class but have to be really careful when putting it on the web. Self recorded sounds are much appreciated. 

New address of the ZHdK Soundlibrary: https://library.prosoundeffects.com/ (Zugriff über VPN ermöglicht herunterladen)

Link to Spitfire Audio Free VSTs: https://www.spitfireaudio.com/labs/