Sound Design

I was chiefly in charge of sound design and wanted to be as creative as possible with it. Perhaps the best example is during Martin's 'exercise' scene when he is playing a fighting game. The sound was created from a mixture of the obvious Stock punching FX, and original techno inspired track on Garageband, and vocal recordings of myself and a friend which were combined to created an exaggerated parody of the videogames violence with a match of onscreen action.

The foley sounds of his button bashing on an arcade stick were also incorporated and little touches, such as volume reduction, were used such as when he wipes his forehead with his hand, which maintains continuity and realism.

The sound drop-outs surrounding the voiceovers were also carefully considered, as we wanted the diegetic sounds of his activities to introduce each each scene without impeding his narration. An example of this is when he is watching The Empire Strikes Back, and we used the musical score as a cue to drop the sound out on the last note.

Also during this scene I panned the sound of Star Wars to the right in relation to the TV in the establishing shot, and centralised it when it cuts to the action in the film.
During his introduction, atmos and foley sounds were recorded as Martin goes about his daily 'breakfast' routine, however we ommited those in favour of just using the sound of a keyboard and his voice over as they established that he was on his computer prior to actually seeing it on screen.