Unit 38- Soundtrack Ben Burtt who was born on 12th July 1948 is an American sound designer, editor, director, voice actor and writer of screenplays. He has been working as a sound designer on many films including Star Wars, Indiana Jones, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers and E.T. He has born in Jamesville, New York, and graduated with a major degree in physics from the Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He won the National Student Film Festival event with a short film called “Vape God”. STAR WARS- In Star Wars, most of the science fiction films used electronic sounding effects for futuristic devices, but Burtt wanted to have more of a natural sound, blending his newly found sounds, such as Chewbacca, R2-D2, The Wilhelm Scream, The Lightsabers and the outer space effects. The lightsaber hum for example, was derived from a film projector which was combined with a broken television set and the blaster effect which was of a guy hitting on a radio tower with a hammer. The sounds make us feel as if we are actually a part of this science fiction world and without the sounds, the film seems unreal. WALLE- Walle and the rest of the robots in the film were created by inspirations from the Indiana Jones movie which was created in 2008. The voices were created by using the voice from an elderly lady with a low voice that he met in a photo-printing shop, with individual edits for each of the specific characters. In the introduction for the film, the music “Put on your Sunday Clothes” from Hello Dolly, fits in well with the spectacular space images and the camera angles that have been featured in the film. INDIANA JONES- The sounds for the Indiana Jones films were created by the crew doing gunshots and explosions to work on the sounds for the boulders. They rolled things down the hills and got rocks to experiment with the different pitches and tempos. They were driving down the road that had big rocks as the sound of the car was moving over the rocks, and they thought that was a good sound for the boulder as well. It was used in the temple scene from the film “Raiders of the Lost Ark”.

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Unit 38- Soundtrack

Ben Burtt who was born on 12th July 1948 is an American sound designer, editor, director, voice actor and writer of screenplays. He has been working as a sound designer on many films including Star Wars, Indiana Jones, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers and E.T.

He has born in Jamesville, New York, and graduated with a major degree in physics from the Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He won the National Student Film Festival event with a short film called “Vape God”.

STAR WARS- In Star Wars, most of the science fiction films used electronic sounding effects for futuristic devices, but Burtt wanted to have more of a natural sound, blending his newly found sounds, such as Chewbacca, R2-D2, The Wilhelm Scream, The Lightsabers and the outer space effects. The lightsaber hum for example, was derived from a film projector which was combined with a broken television set and the blaster effect which was of a guy hitting on a radio tower with a hammer. The sounds make us feel as if we are actually a part of this science fiction world and without the sounds, the film seems unreal.

WALLE- Walle and the rest of the robots in the film were created by inspirations from the Indiana Jones movie which was created in 2008. The voices were created by using the voice from an elderly lady with a low voice that he met in a photo-printing shop, with individual edits for each of the specific characters. In the introduction for the film, the music “Put on your Sunday Clothes” from Hello Dolly, fits in well with the spectacular space images and the camera angles that have been featured in the film.

INDIANA JONES- The sounds for the Indiana Jones films were created by the crew doing gunshots and explosions to work on the sounds for the boulders. They rolled things down the hills and got rocks to experiment with the different pitches and tempos. They were driving down the road that had big rocks as the sound of the car was moving over the rocks, and they thought that was a good sound for the boulder as well. It was used in the temple scene from the film “Raiders of the Lost Ark”.