2/18 (What was suppose to be a HW assignment...)

I know that this is late but I figured that it would be best that I listened to the track anyway.

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Even with the small amount of toying with sound effects in audacity and garageband, and I'm still amazed with how household sounds are used as sound effects yet seem so different when they are put together with  a particular motion or image.

Ever since I first saw the Star Wars movies I wondered how they came up with those sounds. When I heard how they were made and with what it made sense; when in high school the students in my graphic design class were less than productive if given the slightest chance of freedom, during the last couple minutes of class they decided to play around discovered that the microphone on the eMac gave off a sound whenever something passed over it. That's when they got the wise idea to put various things by the microphone and recorded the sounds that they made and played them back: keyboard, hand, mouse, pen, etc. (In other words I knew about the sounds that a microphone could pick up and how strange they can sound on their own.)

I am extremely grateful to Ben Burtt for his movie sound effects in both Star Wars and Wall-E which are both great movies. And the emotion that he was able to capture for Wall-E with primarily no actual language being spoken by him matched up well.

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Just listening to the sounds makes me want to play around with them though the interview did give me sound ideas as to what I should try recording for the FlyThru project.
I think I'll try recording the sound of a rubber band being snapped as well as a few other things, but that's on the top of my list.