Completed marker tracks for film clips

 Completing a marker track for the scenes that I have chosen within Logic will act as a listed guide for both the recording of the sounds as a checklist and a method of easily locating where the sounds are to be placed. The marker tracks will be set into three different groups per each scene; the ambience, ADR, and sounds effects, making it easier to separate between each of the categories.

Books description of Chigurh's shotgun

Cormac McCarthy's description of Chigurh's silenced shotgun in original book - "Left most of the upper part of him spread across the headboard and the wall behind it. The shotgun made a strange deep chugging sound. like someone coughing into a barrel."

The Coen Brothers - Use Of Sound In No Country For Old Men

 Watching the film No Country For Old Men there is a certain focus and attention to detail to the audio aspects (as well as the visual) in the creation of tension and mood through the manipulation of sound and the effect that silence can have on the audience. During the film there was little in the was of a score, preferring the use of silence to create tension. This meant that there was ample opportunity to be creative in the use of sound effects. Skip Lievsay, sound supervisor and re-recording mixer on the film, states in an interview for 'Focus Features' - "[we] concentrated effort to create simple and elegant sounds that helped progress the story... The simplified version is that you have to be quiet before you are loud. But there are other more complicated [strategies], like having the sound be ragged, or having things build upon and then pop in, or changing the balances between background and foley, like having footsteps be much louder than they normally would be"

Craig Berkey - Sound Designer / Re-Recording Mixer

 Craig Berkey talking in an interview with 'Designing Sound' about some of the processes behind making and choosing the sounds;

"Strange 'Thwump-pop' sounds. I took those and effected them and that became a good low end base for the sound. I then experimented with several elements to work with the base sound that were short and rose in tone like pitched up reversed female scream or a pitched up servo." - Berkey talking about the making of the sound for Chigurh's cattle gun.

"To me the winds were the score for the film" - Highlighting the importance which wind played in the film as there was no score but wind helped to create the feeling of isolation.

No Country For Old Men: Hotel Scene

No Country For Old Men

 No Country For Old Men was released in 2007 to critical acclaim taking a new approach to the wild western thriller genre, both in storyline and production. Written and directed by the Coen brothers (Ethan and Joel) who's previous titles include Fargo, O' Brother Where Art Thou?, and True Grit; the film makes full use of the sound effects and foley elements to create the mood of tension and unease throughout, rather than relying on a score composition.

 For my project I have chosen to redo and redesign the sound for selected scenes from No Country For Old Men both taking into account the visuals shown in the film and the direction in which sound would best add to the film as a spectacle, rather than necessarily being true to what is shown on screen, to create and build a feeling which can keep the audience in moments of suspense. The scene which I am going to recreate the sound for is the 'hotel scene', or more specifically from 54:33 - 59:36. I chose this scene because it has a range of techniques used in the actual sound for the film which builds suspense for the audience through sound alone, as well as it also having a small action sequence.

Binaural Recording Applied To Video

 Binaural recording is a recording technique which has been around for more than half a century, but has never quite become a method which is widely used and credited for its advantages in the recreation of a real life sound space via headphones. This however, with the gain of popularity of 3D film and television coinciding with the growth of the use of hand held devices using headphones, could be a technology which has a place in the future of sound for TV and film.

Steve Balaam - Big Ant Video

 Made contact with Steve Balaam via the phone regarding a collaboration between myself and Big Ant Videos entailing myself creating and placing the sound to one of their videos. Had a discussion about what I was looking for in a video including my interest in placing binaural audio to a piece of film appropriate to exemplify such techniques to which the use of a 3D piece of film was mentioned. Since the initial phone conversation there has been further discussion about the possibility of a film being provided. However, subsequent discussions have caused me to come to the conclusion that due to time constraints with deadlines, planning for the project, and the busy schedule for Steve at Big Ant Video, it is unrealistic to press on with the collaboration.