This next video that I watched may confuse you. I know now I had to do a second post on an idea about sound, and that’s exactly what I did. This video right when watching it seems like something that I should have talked about in the sound artist area, but when you dig deeper, you GET sound ideas from this dude. His name’s Felix Zenger and this guy can BEATBOXXX. I noticed that he moves his hands a lot, which probably helps him make the different sounds he made. He also at one point brings out some old school hip hop, which I really enjoy on a regular basis. Jus the easy going flow of the beats of hip hop from the 90’s just gets to me, and this guy did just that. The way he broke the sounds down to create this theme was amazing. I also noticed how at times, he’d flip his head back or up to sorta get the right sound that he wanted. That’s a cool idea/technique to me, I think I could work with that for my sound composition. Another thing I noticed was how he used his finger to I think push his adam’s apple up and down to get a shakey effect. This is the same technique that’s used to make Spongebob Squarepants’ laugh (LOL). That was really cool to me because it gave the sound that big time sound directors probably take hours to make. They’ve got all the equipment and technology on their side, and Felix has a mic…disadvantage? I KNOW so. I never knew that just by playing around with your throat, and moving your body around, you can get the exact sounds you want. Beat boxing is an art in my perspective, and Felix is like Da Vinci; the technique he uses is impeccable. I want to try and take these ideas that he has given me, and convert them into different sounds to create different scenarios, like the previous video I watched. Once again, I suggest that everybody take a look at this video, and just enjoy it.
Category: Sound Tings a Gwannnnn
The video I watched on youtube showed me a lot. It’s really amazing how sound directors get sounds by doing the most random things, and then perfecting it to an even greater extent. The guy from this video smashed up a car, just to get the right sounds for a movie. The things he did were CRAZY. He took a log, and literally dropped it on top of the car, JUST TO GET A SOUND OUT OF IT. That personally made me laugh, but at the same time it’s really smart. By doing that, he got the perfect sound he wanted, and he could use it for possibly a car accident scene. The beginning talks about how sound affects our thoughts on how hard or sever a hit could be, and it’s true. Another cool thing they talked about was, using one sound for a lot of different things. He was crinkling up some kind of glass-paper. They said that he could use that for a freezing scene in a movie, a bird hatching from an egg, and of course glass crunching or something in an accident. I learned that even nature could interfere with getting the perfect sound. This particular director wasn’t fully happy with the sounds he got outdoors because he said there were birds around, plus echo from a forest. While hitting the car to get the sounds, he said that echoes would affect the richness of the sound. So he would continue his work indoors. This could help me enormously for a sound composition. By doing something simple like smacking a table or something, I can create many sounds with it. By maybe using a stapler, I can say it’s a gun shot. By dropping a couple of coins properly, I can make it sound like breaking glass. Getting a clip of an elephant on youtube…I could say that it’s the sound of an elephant (couldn’t think of anything else at the moment). But yeah, this video is really interesting to watch, and I suggest that ALL ya’ll should watch itttt. 
