I give Transfomers 2 a lot crap for bad visual effects, because I think part of visual effects should involve, you know, being able to tell what the hell is going on. Nonetheless, some of the sound effects were pretty cool, and in this video, the sound editing team takes you into their process. I recommend fast-forwarding to about 1:30 to get straight to the technical stuff and cut down on the amount of faux-profound, pretentious philosophizing you’ll have to hear. You know, stuff like:
“Sound editing, it’s really a process of finding the soul of these characters, you know?”
That’s deep, brah. Hey, you know those hip hop robots who couldn’t read? I was really struck by how much soul they had. Flavuh, one might even say.
FUN FACT: Boom mike operators love Michael Bay because he signs all his emails: “BOOM! -Mike.”
[Boing Boing via /Film]
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Haven’t bothered to watch it yet but if they don’t use *sad trombone* what’s the effing point anyway?
Hey Vinnie, you need to update the link on the comments page. It’s still bringing up the week of 1/11.
No surprise the star of that clip are a pair of balls.
Ah, will do, gracias.
The guy that does hand-farts for Weird Al and/or Spoonman or GTFO.
Nothing about sub woofers and tweeters ? This YouTube video is useless in buying speakers from the back of a van.
(nice serial killer moment at 1:57, btk)
“Sound editing, it’s really a process of finding the soul of these characters, you know,” asked the guy who received a BA in *record scratch* with a minor in *glass breaking*.
My sould is making a fart noise with his mouth right now.
I hope it’s his mouth at least.
Where’s the part about how they spent half their budget trying to make Shia LeBeouf sound less effeminate?