In today’s lesson we use a volca synthesizer to restore the sound of the film. In the first Blade Runner clip, the scene shifts from a very sprawling sci-fi city to an interior, with the clip starting off full of explosions and spaceships going through, and then turning into a quiet conversation in the interior. In terms of sound, there is a stark difference between the two clips. The first part of the film I found to be more techno, while the second part was a quiet indoor ambient sound.

At first I chose to use a Volca drum to recreate the sound, and since it was my first time working with a Drum, I didn’t think it would work very well in the first reductions. The second time I got a little more proficient with this synth, I used a bottom drum and a rubbing sound for the first part of the explosion to create a sense of impact from the explosion. Since the drum can’t do padding music, it would be monotonous with this synth. The original version actually sounded pretty much the way I wanted it to, but my lack of skill with the drone led to a less than stellar overall result.

In the second film You were never really here, the overall image is dark and black, so I thought it would be a good idea to use some darker synth sounds at the bottom, in this case I chose to use Volca FM to restore the sound. Unlike the drum, the FM is more like a synth with a keyboard, so I felt it would be more playable. In the film, I modulated a more rumble sound and changed the intensity according to the picture. But when I watched the original version, the original sounded nothing like what I thought it would sound like, the original music was much more powerful and dynamic, and I felt that the combination of both drum and fm played together should give a better reproduction.

This class was not only interesting for me but also allowed me to recreate the sound of a film with a synthesizer in a limited way, and I am interested in the future direction of the screen, so the content of this class was very meaningful for me.