Jonathan Savage

I’m always interested to read about how sound design is approached within computer games. Andrew Diey alerted me to this post recently via his Twitter feed. Thanks Andrew. It has some fantastic commentary about how various sound designers have approached designing sonic elements of different games. Some will be appropriate for use with students in school; others are interesting as part one’s own professional development.

For those of you interested in teaching your pupils about film music and sound design, there is a great sequence in the recent Film 2009 programme about the work of foley artists. It’s here for a couple more days. Featuring work from Ben Burtt (the sound designer who gave us the sound of the light-saber) and others, it gives some great examples from films like Walle and the Titanic. The sequence starts about 9 minutes in after Jonathan Ross’ review of the The Watchmen.