To help bring a film like Rogue One — which takes place in far-off worlds with ships and creatures we’ve never seen before — to life, sound designers will often use unexpected sound effects that are warped and manipulated, until you can’t imagine a droid like K-2SO sounding any other…
Video: Avatar and Jurassic Park. Lord of the Rings and Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Star Trek and The Jetsons. What do those films have in common with each other? They used the same exact sound effects in their movies. Obviously some of those sound effects are done as an…
Rupert Murdoch must be feeling nostalgic: Reporters in The Times UK‘s newsroom are working under a constant soundtrack of (artificial) typewriter clatter. It’s an experiment to “increase energy levels”, and for a generation of reporters who grew up on word processors, it’s probably torture.