For this video I redid the audio for a scene from the movie Isle of Dogs from director Wes Anderson. The goal here was to improve on areas I thought could use some touching up (such as some of the original sound choices and mixing) as well as testing my ADR skills and Foley/field recording capabilities. A vast majority of the sounds used in the scene were recorded by me. The first song that plays as the scene opens was composed by me for the scene. I was the voice of both Chief and Atari.

While there are certainly similarities to the original, overall I went for a slightly darker and more realistic feel that benefited the scene and gave it a somewhat grittier sound. Instead of being hopeful, my version tries to subtly relay the reality that they might not find Atari’s dog Spots.

This edit was a challenge proposed to me by a close friend where we took the same scene and same set of sounds and used them in creative ways to redo the effects for the given scene. While it may not sound like it, the sounds that were chosen were a gambling chip counter, a horse neigh, a paper crumpling, a sink draining, the sound of water bubbling, and a pinball machine.

I used Pro Tools to get creative in my sound design. For example, I used Valhalla Delay and Pro Tools' Loop Record mode to make the crumpling paper sound as if it were a flittering texture with lots of particulate matter spinning off into crazy different directions. I used to Quad Mode on VD and messed with each of the taps' delay times, the width of the feedback, and the channel offset to give it an ever changing feel. In addition to this I used the horse neighing with the Sci-Fi tremolator and Vari-Fi in order to create a weird rising texture when Voldemort explodes outward with energy.

There was a lot more to it than this but this is an example of the work that was done for the scene!

All original sounds are used non-commercially from the BBC Sound Library.