dh1989
10-08-2002, 02:57 PM
Here is a neato little article from The Hollywood reporter. I personally cannot wait to see Aragog on the screen. He should be fairly scary.....
With so many spiders in Chamber of Secrets, sound designer/co-sound supervisor Randy Thom explained to the Hollywood Reporter today that "coming up with sounds for all these spiders was a challenge".
"If you press a piece of metal against a piece of dry ice, the metal will resonate, making a ringing sound," he says. "The metal, which is warmer than the dry ice, causes the vapors to release faster, and these vapors push on the knife and get it vibrating. You can get big, Jimi Hendrix-style sounds or little chirping sounds, depending on the size of the metal and the ice. For other films, I've used huge pipes and gurders with hundreds of pounds of ice; in this case, I've gone smaller and gotten chirping sounds. Those are the ones I'm going to use for the vocalizations and the sounds that suggest the spiders breathing and scraping their legs together.
When I'm designing sounds for this type of sequence, I'm always thinking in emotional tones -- how do I want the audience to feel, and how can we evoke that with sound? I think these creepy little sounds that we got from the dry ice really fit the bill for these spiders."
There you go!
With so many spiders in Chamber of Secrets, sound designer/co-sound supervisor Randy Thom explained to the Hollywood Reporter today that "coming up with sounds for all these spiders was a challenge".
"If you press a piece of metal against a piece of dry ice, the metal will resonate, making a ringing sound," he says. "The metal, which is warmer than the dry ice, causes the vapors to release faster, and these vapors push on the knife and get it vibrating. You can get big, Jimi Hendrix-style sounds or little chirping sounds, depending on the size of the metal and the ice. For other films, I've used huge pipes and gurders with hundreds of pounds of ice; in this case, I've gone smaller and gotten chirping sounds. Those are the ones I'm going to use for the vocalizations and the sounds that suggest the spiders breathing and scraping their legs together.
When I'm designing sounds for this type of sequence, I'm always thinking in emotional tones -- how do I want the audience to feel, and how can we evoke that with sound? I think these creepy little sounds that we got from the dry ice really fit the bill for these spiders."
There you go!