Sound Design Demo - Towers of Midnight

Whenever someone asks me what I did on a film or video and I answer that "I did the sound," the most common follow up question I receive is some variant of "What does that mean?" I define sound design as the sum of everything you hear coming out of speakers while you're watching a motion picture. In one way or another, everything you hear in a film was manipulated by someone who worked in the sound or music department. I will delve further into what jobs make up the sound department, and what each person does in future posts, and I will also tackle the term "Sound Designer" at a future time. In this post I want to show an example of a video in which most of the sound design was created in post-production, meaning no sound was recorded on set during filming. A surprisingly few number of...

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Soundhenge Sound Design Blog Commences to Start ;)

Welcome to the Soundhenge Sound Design Blog. Here you will find news on what Soundhenge is up to, as well as thoughts and other posts relevant to the art of sound design for film and television. Soundhenge Sound Design was founded in 2009 by USC alumni Patrick Knipe (that's me!) and Stephanie Willis. I believe we bring an interesting perspective to sound design because we're as passionate about writing and directing as we are about creating the sound for stories. We've also had the good fortune to work with a lot of very talented up and coming filmmakers (including producers, directors, cinematographers, picture editors, composers, actors, production designers, makeup artists, costume designers, grip and electric, colorists, mixers and boom operators, foley artists, the list goes on and on),...

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