The man in this picture is Walter
Murch, most likely the most widely known sound deisgner, many books have been
written using his techniques and views on sound design. Not only is he a sound
designer but he also does video editing on films, one such film that I will
talk about is Apocalypse now in which he did the sound design and film editing
for it. I will also mention a few fun facts about the film that one might not
now. As well in his line of work it includes the god father, the English
patient and man more, again if you want to find out more information about him
please feel free to look him up on IMDB and find all the films he has worked
on.
A few of my favorite scenes in the film Apocalypse now include the
flight of the Valkyries scene. In this scene helicopters are on the flight to a
village to attack them, in sound world, you hear loud helicopters and the song “The
ride of the Valkyries” in this point of the scene you are in the point of view
of the American soldiers where you here the gun cocks and loud helicopters. Then
the scene hard cuts to the Vietnam village, the sound of the helicopters are
completely gone including the music. Slowly the helicopter sounds creep in in a
deep low frequency way, and people start running and then the song comes back,
the creeping helicopter sounds is what ties this scene together.
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