Hello everybody!
I have a good mate from round my way who also lives out in Japan. The past few times we spoke he told me he is currently working on his portfolio for sound design. He has been designing for adverts. He sent me a few bits and my jaw dropped. They were amazing.
I’m all about climbing out from under my rock every now and again and this particularly sparked my interest. I was curious about how he went about making and creating different textures. How did he select the adverts? I didn’t know where to start. I was going to ask for the links to the adverts so I could try and make some tunes for them but that instantly didn’t seem fun. Instead, I went ahead and started searching for adverts. It turned out to be fun. I gave myself sometime after choosing the adverts to focus on one. Watched it a couple of times and got busy with another task (playing sous chef to wife and her wonderful bolognese sauce). Once done, I hit up the corner of the room, switched on my gear, and got down to work. A couple of hours later I churned out this.
PHEW, here is mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCEwryN-XVc
The brand is Stone Island and their project is called Ghost.
Is anybody else interested in sound design for adverts or film? Does anybody use visual aids to help them in creating tracks. I have learned a lot from this project that I started on Saturday afternoon.
“Going out of our comfort zone, we can learn a lot.” is something that is swirling around my head at the moment.
PS. COMPETITION? I was unsure where to put this. If anybody fancies making this into a competition then please change where the thread should be located.
I have an old Japanese cassette I’d happily send to the winner (I’ll exclude myself from entering the competition).
RULES: Use any equipment you have. Don’t think too much. Post and share.
EDIT: I uploaded the original. Sorry.
RE-EDIT: It is now my sound design for the add above
BONUS: Here is the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbfXSRO6Hbo&t=9s