It’s been a while since I’ve done anything related to sound effects up here, and its about time I did! One of my favorite classes I had at Chico State was Audio For Video; this class covered a lot of things I needed to know in order to do what I like to do, and it was a lot of fun to boot. This was my final project.
Having already covered dialogue replacement, foley, sound design, and a brief mention of music scoring, our final project for the semester was to take a scene from a movie, extract the audio, and replace it with our own. A Beautiful Mind was an amazing movie for a variety of reasons (not entirely accurate to actual events from what I hear, but who’s counting?). So, I chose this scene which I felt encapsulated a lot of different elements for me to try and convey.
Having already covered dialogue replacement, foley, sound design, and a brief mention of music scoring, our final project for the semester was to take a scene from a movie, extract the audio, and replace it with our own. A Beautiful Mind was an amazing movie for a variety of reasons (not entirely accurate to actual events from what I hear, but who’s counting?). So, I chose this scene which I felt encapsulated a lot of different elements for me to try and convey.
SPOILERS (although honestly if you haven't seen the movie yet, do yourself a favor and do it)! John Nash (the protagonist) is suffering from from severe paranoid schizophrenia and this entire scene is later revealed to have been a complete fabrication of his mind. So, in an effort to convey that something is not quite real about it, I composed music to be ethereal and other-worldly, at least towards the end. The main music theme during the first half of the car chase is supposed to be an imitation of the theme from the fourth movement of Shostakovich’s 5th symphony.
The reason behind this is because not only was Shostakovich a prominent soviet composer (the “bad guys” pursing Nash and his FBI hallucination in this scene are supposed to be soviet spies), but the movement from which I’m drawing inspiration has been debated to be either a Soviet victory hymn or a parody of such. Either way, it suits me well, and also the tone of this scene.
The sound effects were mostly gathered from freesound.org, though some of them were taken from various sound effect libraries. A few (notably, the paper noises in the beginning) were foley performed by me. I did not have access to especially skilled voice actors fro this one, being on a time budget. Therefore Nash is played by my former roommate Hobert Ray III, and I play the FBI agent (so pardon the terrible voice acting).
Cheers!
The reason behind this is because not only was Shostakovich a prominent soviet composer (the “bad guys” pursing Nash and his FBI hallucination in this scene are supposed to be soviet spies), but the movement from which I’m drawing inspiration has been debated to be either a Soviet victory hymn or a parody of such. Either way, it suits me well, and also the tone of this scene.
The sound effects were mostly gathered from freesound.org, though some of them were taken from various sound effect libraries. A few (notably, the paper noises in the beginning) were foley performed by me. I did not have access to especially skilled voice actors fro this one, being on a time budget. Therefore Nash is played by my former roommate Hobert Ray III, and I play the FBI agent (so pardon the terrible voice acting).
Cheers!