The Soundworks Collection has revealed the latest installment in their continued series of featurettes dedicated to the sound of motion pictures, this time examining the work put into Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, a film sure to be on the tip of Internet tongues all week.
In this featurette you’ll hear from supervising sound editors Mark Stoeckinger and Victor Ennis, sound re-recording Mixers Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill, sound Designers Ann Scibelli and Alan Rankin and sound effects researcher Charlie Campagna.
The video runs just under 13 minutes and you’ll see what role a Coke can, Pop Rocks and a Xerox machine played into the sound design along with a Blue Front Amazon Parrot that actually helped provide the sound for the much-talked about and most horrific scene in the film as well as beeps and even some of the film’s creatures. There’s also a segment where Campagna starts talking about getting the dialogue just right inside the helmet that had me going, “Huh?” and then sort of laughing when he says, “Very simple.” Yeah Chalie, your sine sweeps sound really simple. They also touch upon an attempt to get the sound to match the 3-D presentation.
Overall, you’ll just a sense of the thought process that went into when to include and when not to include added sound.
