Sound Design for Low and No Budget Films

Winters, Patrick

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“…Foley artists make use of a variety of tools and techniques with the goal of being able to create believable, synchronised sound that can help reinforce the narrative and reality established within a production [15][16][17]. Three core sound elements of footsteps, prop handling, and cloth are typically performed [18][19][20]. Foley, being diegetic in nature, can be considered to play a part in allowing an audience to comprehend the actions and characters in a scene and therefore contribute to a narrative, although the source or object used to create the sound may be different to that depicted in a process of "sound-acting" [21].…”

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Audience perceptions of Foley footsteps and 3D realism designed to convey walker characteristics

Cunningham,

McGregor

2024

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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Foley artistry is an essential part of the audio post-production process for film, television, games, and animation. By extension, it is as crucial in emergent media such as virtual, mixed, and augmented reality. Footsteps are a core activity that a Foley artist must undertake and convey information about the characters and environment presented on-screen. This study sought to identify if characteristics of age, gender, weight, health, and confidence could be conveyed, using sounds created by a professional Foley artist, in three different 3D humanoid models, following a single walk cycle. An experiment was conducted with human participants (n=100) and found that Foley manipulations could convey all the intended characteristics with varying degrees of contextual success. It was shown that the abstract 3D models were capable of communicating characteristics of age, gender, and weight. A discussion of the literature and inspection of related audio features with the Foley clips suggest signal parameters of frequency, envelope, and novelty may be a subset of markers of those perceived characteristics. The findings are relevant to researchers and practitioners in linear and interactive media and demonstrate mechanisms by which Foley can contribute useful information and concepts about on-screen characters.

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Audience perceptions of Foley footsteps and 3D realism designed to convey walker characteristics

Cunningham,

McGregor

2024

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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Manipulating Foley Footsteps and Character Realism to Influence Audience Perceptions of a 3D Animated Walk Cycle

Cunningham

Mcgregor

2022

AudioMostly 2022

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Foley artistry is an essential part of the audio post-production process for film, television, games, and animation. By extension, it is as crucial in emergent media such as virtual, mixed, and augmented reality. Footsteps are a core activity that a Foley artist must undertake and convey information about the characters and environment presented on-screen. This study sought to identify if characteristics of age, gender, weight, health, and confidence could be conveyed, using sounds created by a professional Foley artist, in three different 3D humanoid models, following a single walk cycle. An experiment was conducted with human participants (n=100) and found that Foley manipulations could convey all the intended characteristics with varying degrees of contextual success. It was shown that the abstract models were capable of communicating characteristics of age, gender, and weight. The findings are relevant to researchers and practitioners in linear and interactive media and demonstrate mechanisms by which Foley can contribute useful information and concepts about on-screen characters. CCS CONCEPTS• Applied computing → Sound and music computing; • Humancentered computing → User studies.

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“…The dominant theme of the film -namely, that dangerous things live in images -is, to a significant extent, articulated through the sound design of its trailer. The use of hard and foley sound effects located within the narrative world of the film and the off-screen effects and designed sounds (Winters 2017) repeatedly draw attention to this idea at a meta-narrative level, linking the idea of watching films in two contexts: the horrific films that become Ellison's obsession and the viewer in the theatre. The Soundtrack of the Sinister Trailer…”

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The Soundtrack of the Sinister Trailer

Redfern¹

2021

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies

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In this article, I analyse the soundtrack of the green band trailer for Sinister (Scott Derrickson, 2012), combining quantitative methods to analyse the soundtrack with formal analysis. I show that, even though Sinister is a narrative about a demon who lives in images, the horror in the soundtrack of this trailer is articulated through the sound design. I describe the structure of the soundtrack and analyse the distribution and organisation of dialogue, the use of different types of sound effects to create a connection between the viewer and the characters onscreen, as well as the use of specific localised sound events to organise attention and to frighten the viewer. I identify two features not previously discussed in relation to quantitative analysis of film soundtracks: an affective event based on reactions to a stimulus and the presence of nonlinear features in the sound envelopes of localised affective events. The sound design of this trailer is consistent with the principles of contemporary sound design in horror cinema, but also demonstrates some variation in its use of sound as a paratext to its parent film.

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Sound Design for Low and No Budget Films

Cited by 4 publications

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Audience perceptions of Foley footsteps and 3D realism designed to convey walker characteristics

Audience perceptions of Foley footsteps and 3D realism designed to convey walker characteristics

Manipulating Foley Footsteps and Character Realism to Influence Audience Perceptions of a 3D Animated Walk Cycle

The Soundtrack of the Sinister Trailer

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