Reflections on Sound Design

Wall-E Clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woEN_tUVlNI

FADE IN 

EXT. WASTE LAND OF A WORLD – MORNING 

WALL-E the little robot comes out of his home for the day.

WALL-E 

SIGHS

He then rolls forward and crushes the little cockroach. SQUISH.

WALL-E 

SCREAMS

He bends down and looks at the roach.

WALL-E

 Awwww

PING the cockroach springs back to life. Wall-E then points for him to go inside and stay. He then rolls away to start his day. He goes over to the garbage and SCRAPES in up into his box of a body. Then makes a big CLUNK as it comes back out and hits the ground in a square form. Wall-E then makes another one and GIGGLES as he makes it. CLUNK as the next one falls to the ground. He finds a woman bra WHISTLES and puts it on his eyes.

WALL-E 

Whaaaaa ohhhhh

Throws it into his cooler that he brought with him. He then throws a toy duck in it with a SQUICK. Also a bobble headed dog CLUNK. He then finds keys to a car and CLICKS then BEEP BEEP as the car goes off. He looks around all confused and then finds a paddleball CLINK CLINK CLINK..... Until he starts hitting his face CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK

WALL-E

 GROWLS

He then finds a box with a diamond ring in it WHISTLES. Then he throws away the diamond ring. Looks at the box and wiggles it backs and forth CLICK CLICK. Then throws it into his cooler CLUNK. Then he throws an old boot in there CLUNK and a trophy CLUNK. He is still making those little boxesand has a bunch of them stacked now. Then he finds a fire extinguisher.

WALL-E 

Ohhhh

CLICK the extinguisher goes off spraying everywhere SSSSHHHHHHH

WALL-E

 AHHHH UUGHH

Then he throws it far away CLING. He continues the stack the squares in a bigger square until the day turns to night.

FADE OUT

When talking about the listening modes I hear a lot of casual sounds in this clip. Like when Wall-moves he makes the regular sound of tires moving on a rough ground. Just to fill in the space sound he isn’t soundless when ever he rolls around to go places. Also when things hit the ground or are thrown around they have the regular sound of hitting the ground like clunk. Then another type of sound that is used in the clip in semantic sound because when the cockroach kind of squeaks represents him as talking to Wall-e because we know the roaches doesn’t squeak. Then with the space in the clip you see some distance sound when Wall-E throws the extinguisher and it makes a sound when it hits the ground it has a sound of being far away. Also when Wall-e wheels himself off-screen you can hear it fade as he goes away in one direction making so he is far away now. When the squares that Wall-E makes hit the ground they don’t make a lot of sound so we can hear the size of the object. It is small because it doesn’t make such a big sound.