When I'm in between projects I like to do sound-re-designs as a way to stay sharp and always get more faster and efficient.
Here's one of my recent re-designs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeLGzOtnMvI
I muted the orginal scene and re-did everything to my own tastes. Foley, sound design, music, and mix. Main tools that were used were Audio Design Desk, Reformer Pro, and Weaponiser (for the sounds) and PercX for the score.
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Thanks for sharing that Nathan, that's really cool! You've done some amazing work there. Did you face any particular challenges or difficulties? Did handling all of the audio elements change your approach to how you composed or mixing in any way?
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Joanna Karselis I think the biggest difficulty was thinking I was done. Every time I started mixing, I noted I missed something in the foley. A small step, an impact, some cloth movements... There are so many details I had to get right. Nothing changed how I composed or mixed, really. When I wok on a film and I'm doing all the post, I just do one thing a time. Compose the music first, then ambiences, then footsteps, then foley (props), then sound design, then dialogue editing, then mix.
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Ah that's really interesting Nathan Daniel. Kind of like mixing music, then- it's almost impossible to ever "finish" a mix, always feels like you've missed something or want to tweak. It sounds like the same premise, just with the added complication of hitting every detail in the sound as well as the music.
It makes sense to break it down one element at a time when you're doing all the post sound yourself. Sounds like it could get kind of overwhelming otherwise, trying to pay attention to all the details at once.
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Absolutely. "Art is never finished, only abandoned". At some point, you have to ask yourself if the end listener will even notice or give a shit about the details you obsess over. I have to check myself as well as my clients. It's always a struggle.
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You've summed up the plight of the perfectionist audiophile really well there. We definitely obsess over details no one else will notice, but my hope is all those little details stacked on top of each other add up. Every automation, minutely tweaked synth, and painstaking rhythm that gets the hit points juuuust right eventually create a really detailed, nuanced sound. The audience might not notice the details we obsess over, but they definitely notice their accumulation. That's what I tell myself, anyway! And there needs to be an end point. As you say, the abandonment is crucial and we can definitely end up getting fixated and stuck on things that don't matter alongside the details that do.
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Yep! Learning to let go is an art that takes a lot of work.