Documentary movie about sound making of movie "Godzilla Godzilla"

A movie released in 2014GODZILLA Godzilla"Is"It is wonderful comparable to the original workIt is said that it is told that it is highly evaluated. A documentary movie that shows what kind of initiatives the sound designer has taken at the site of such work making and which sounds of that Godzilla were reproduced has been released.

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The work involved in the sound design of the movie "Godzilla Godzilla" was based on Eric Ardahl, who was involved in "Transformers / Darkside Moon" and Ethan Van Der of "The Lord of the Rings Two Towers" Mr. Line. Both of them said that they were excited about the feeling "unbelievable" when they became involved in Godzilla movies.


Mr. Ardal said, "It's very exciting, everything began with a single phone, around Alex Garcia, Executive Producer (Commander)," There is a new project, Godzilla "It was told that it was" It is said that the circumstances.


Mr. Ardal:
"For people involved in movie sounds, Godzilla movies are a history and a kind of" symbol ", so I and Ethan (Van der Line) talk with director Gareth Edwards on the phone We were impressed by seeing his "Monsters" work, so we decided to talk a lot about what kind of sound is to be realized first. "


Mr. Van der Rhine said, "I knew that I was working with geniuses, so I just saw what was going on by chair," he said, I tell you how I was able to work with a privileged team. Mr. Ardal said about Van der Rhine "Ethan is the most tough job in the world, two people devised various methods and took sound," Mr. Van der Rhine said of Ardahl About Mr. "Eric has always been unhappy with work and I always tried to find a better way", leaving comments highly appreciated.


Although it is such an excellent two engineers, it is said that it was the original version Godzilla made in 1954 that carefully came in contact with the best when making sound of Godzilla movie. Mr. Ardal said, "I respected the original Godzilla and worked."


Mr. Ardal:
"There are not so many things in the world that you can tell me what the sound you heard by closing your eyes is sound, but Godzilla is exactly that, so we are in that cultural history I could not overlook it, after updating the original one, I needed to update it contemporaneously. "


"Toho looked for the original sound source.The original version Godzilla was the first movie recorded with magnetic tape in Japan.The first generation Godzilla sound crew got the sounds of various living things all over the world from Godzilla I tried to find the sound but it did not work, so I was a Godzilla composerItobe AkiraHe thought of a famous technique of rubbing the strings of the contrabass of the instrument in a special way. "


"We tried to use the sounds of animals like dolphins and elephants, like the original Godzilla acoustic team, but it did not work. This is really" zero or one "in order to judge it It was not something that appealed to more emotions, and everyone involved in this work was trying to create a unique unique thing while respecting the history of Godzilla. "


Godzilla's "sound" was also regarded as important when shooting. In the modern era when CG developed, acting was often preceded by a green back made for CG, acting with a white ball attached to the opponent as opponent, but taking command Edwards said he was doing ingenuity to bring the voice of Godzilla to his iPad and bring it to the scene and let the actors act as actors playing from the speaker.


This Godzilla movie, along with Godzilla, has twoMoutoOccupies a large part. Mr. Ardahl and Mr. Van Derle line said that they devoted all their efforts to expressing such Mouto's "Seoul".


Mr. Ardal "The voice is the character of that animal and the voice is to give" character "to the character of CG. The interesting thing about Godzilla and Mouto is that there is a character rather than a murderer who does not have such a mind as to appear in the movies "Jaws" and "Aliens". It is a point that the male and female Mouto have a heart that seeks each other and pours affection to the child. In the scene where the nest of Moutoos was destroyed and all the eggs were destroyed, there was a scene that the female Moutoo interrupted the fight with Godzilla and returned to the nest, but it is powerful to express such a character 's soul I poured it. "


Regarding shooting and sound effects of this work, it has been revealed that he had received much cooperation from the US military. Under the cooperation of the Navy, two Nuclear aircraft carriers stationed in the Gulf of Mexico "Ronald Reagan"It seems he got an opportunity to record over 4 days at sea.


Record the appearance of the fighter's detached ship on the deck.


Sometimes called offshore, the sound team's thoroughly listening to recording with thorough equipment.


Sometimes the microphone attached to the boom was pierced from the hull, and the sound of splashing that occurred while navigating was also recorded.


The bag on the shoulder contained a professional digital recorder.


In the work there are scenes where tanks appear, but of course this is recorded using real vehicles.


Record the sound of a tank that goes while stepping on the scrap that was considered as a vehicle. It seems that 100% realistic sounds could be recorded that can not be produced by synthesis.


Regarding this background, Mr. Ardal said, "With the cooperative relationship with the military we were able to do wonderful tasks, they were very cooperative and gave us a perfectly good environment to record this kind of sound "I am talking about the blessed recording environment.

Military vehicles can record actual sounds, but the sounds of virtual creatures Godzilla and Moutoo need to be created by themselves. As a result, various ideas and methods were invented and put into practice.


Record the sound "Gyuugyu, Gyu - kyu" slowly rubbing the big balloon ... ...


Use the waveform editing software to extremely slow down the playback speed.


At one time, scrape the part of the skin hanging on the drum set with a sneaker "rubbing" ......


I tried rubbing with my finger this time.


It seems that even the sound of the ironing board 's feet "squeak" was used as a material even if it was placed in the studio. Such a method is called "Foley Sound", and it is still a method widely used even in the field of sound even now.


A wooden hanger stand is set up "Gigi, Gigi" and sounds are also recorded.


When recording, a special microphone developed by Japanese microphone maker "SANKEN (Sanshin)"CO - 100KIt was used.


CO - 100K is a microphone capable of collecting 100 kHz superhigh sound which is five times higher than the human audible range. In order to reproduce the recorded sound at an extremely low speed, it is necessary to properly record a very high sound at the material stage.


Rubbing plastic knife with rubber tire to record sound.


Waveform editing with that sound ...


That is why the sound when Mootoo moves is born.


In the scene where children riding the school bus screamed, recording was done using the actual school bus.


Inside the dark car, a fake fake that wears a monster's covering appeared and threatened the children! On the contrary it seems like something interesting, but ...


However, thanks to that, children reproduce the panic scene with real performance. Such a sound is used in the work.


This is a scene that it seems to be recording Godzilla's bark.


It seems that sneakers also appeared here as well.


For the sounds recorded and edited in this way, the work "Worldizing (finishing)" will be done.


Acoustic speakers that can be stacked carefully. This is the task of replaying Godzilla's voice at a loud volume in the set of the real world and recording the state that the air trembles again with a microphone. By doing this work, the sound made in the studio will be reproduced (warred) as it will fit in the real world.


When the sound man pushes the keyboard, that Godzilla's cry is played!


A huge speaker system to raise the beat. What is used here is a speaker system for concert made by Electro-Voice "X-Line CompactIs not it?


However, in reality, maybe a small Godzilla who is placed on the speaker is crying.


The sound that is output in this manner is recorded again by the recording device which reproduced the human ear, and realism is added. In this session, it seems that the sound has reached a place that is a mile away (about 1.6 km).


What is important in the Godzilla movie is that it is common sense among Godzilla fans that it is its "cry" as well as the appearance of Godzilla. The way to make that cry is considered to be out of the door and what to know the real way is extremely limited, but apparently they seem to have accessed the secret.


Although two people were asked about that method in the interview, Edwards refused commentary on the ground that it is said that "Keep secret to the graveyard". As it was, the secret of the cry was not told, the movie ended.


A movie whose various methods and approaches are described is a full length of about 45 minutes. Although it is all English work, it was a work that seemed to be enjoyable even just listening to the scenes and sounds that appeared.