Additional Work: Sound Design, Research

Sound design is an often overlooked aspect of film making but in fact it is a very important part of a film and deserves more attention.

Directors are usually credited with the success or failure of a movie, an important part of the director successfully achieving his goals with the movie is working closely with the sound designer. The sound designer will add sound to the movie in post-production and help the director realise any moments of tension or suspense or things of that nature.

Sound designers approach their job in many ways. The sound designers on the Robert Redford picture, 'All Is Lost',  say that they approached the sound design musically. They created the sounds from scratch, most people are under the misconception that sound design is recorded, but it is in fact made. The 'All Is Lost' sound designers likened the choosing of sound by sound designers to the process a casting director would go through to cast a character. They argue that is sound is utilised successfully that the character becomes a character in and of itself. The sound designers also feel that sound can create a movement.

'Psycho' is a very famous movie, where there are stab scenes. Quite famously, the sound designers stabbed watermelons to create the stab sound effects.