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[lierdumoa]

Today in lecture we went over Foley sound design. Briefly the prof. discussed how Foley artists will watch an actor's shoulder motions in a scene where the feet are not visible to match footstep sounds.

Saturday when I started Gia!vid I was putting in a clip of Gia walking down a catwalk. She was walking with attitude, so her shoulders were swinging like whoa. I synched the movement of her shoulders up with the beat. It felt wrong when I did that, but I couldn't figure out why. OMG epiphany! The movement of shoulders is syncopated with the movement of the feet when a person is walking. Logically, any sound should "come" from the feet. I matched up the onscreen motion of the shoulders with the music, but my brain unconsciously wanted the beat to line up with the offscreen motion of the footsteps, hence my timing looked off.



BTW Sydhead, guy in my flim group leant me the first 8 episodes of Samurai Champloo that he owns on DVD as well as the show's soundtrack.

::pets pretty, pretty anime::

Comments

[andtheafterglow.livejournal.com]

i'm really excited about gia!vid!!!!! i am.

re: samurai champloo... i've been watching the dubbed eps on adult swim and it's hard for me to get into. i think it's because of the story arc with the yakuza. i dunno.

[spaggel.livejournal.com]

It's because your watching the dubs :|

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Since I had the DVD's I thought I'd try watching the dubs. I really couldn't stand the new voice they gave Fuu (odd, considering I often can't stand the female voice actors they use in anime). And they just couldn't get Mugen or Jin quite right either. And all the villains sounded way lame. So I went back to watching the subs.

[smutcutter.livejournal.com]

Ah.. welcome to the dark side of my world.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

XD

Here there be monsters.