Saturday, July 26, 2014
Introduction
Hello, my name is Richard Sample and welcome to my newly
created student blog. For the sake of
professionalism, classroom supported discussion and intrigue, I have created a
blog to center around one of many personal interests to expand to idea of what
a media delivery system can be. I chose
to center my blog on sound design.
Personally, I find the idea of creating ones own sound effects or
character voices to be fun, engaging, and experimental. During this quarter, as I work on this blog,
I hope to find interviews with professionals in the field, create our own sound
effects and learn more about sound design, and hopefully post some videos of
“how to do” or “how they did” on the actually making of original sound.
For my
first blog post I wanted to include a short bio about myself. I was born in Baltimore, and have also lived
in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and currently Illinois. I studied History and communications but
currently am enrolled through AI, the art institute of Chicago, studying Audio
Production.
I have
always been impressed by the ability to make a specific sound, like a frog
croak, out of strange house hold items. Such
as; a tight string attached to a bow with another stick pressed firmly down and
drawn across the string to create a low, ruff, strained sound similar to a
frogs croak. Artists like Mel Blanc
created sounds for Warner Brothers in this fashion, and entertainers like Billy
West, have been creating cartoon voices and entertaining children and adults
alike with characters like, Ren and Stimpy and other assorted cast from shows
like Futurama.
But how
dose it all happen? How does someone break ground in this field? I hope to learn more as the weeks press on,
and hopefully this will be fun for anybody interested.
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