Wednesday 3 December 2014

William Jacobs: Sound Designer

William Jacobs is a well-known for such films as Spy Kids 1-4, Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, The O.C, Sin City, Spiderman, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Twister, Hook, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charlies Angels and 201 other movies! William has won 5 Primetime Emmys and been nominated for 4 other awards.


In this scene we see Carmen and Juni taking on the Ucada assignment and currently stranded on the island with no working gadgets trying to track down the Transmooker device. They have just ran away from a giant Spider-Monkey and ended up climbing and inactive volcano, as they lean over to take a look Juni gets knocked over the edge by the Flying Pig and Carmen catches him in time however as their devices do not work they must climb back up which leads to the string snapping and them falling into the volcano.
The music here starts off quiet as they have just reached the top but then suddenly stops indicating something is about to happen and when Juni is knocked over. the sound effect of the Pig is emphasised because of its size, then the music really picks up from here. It's suddenly much louder and tense until Carmen grabs Juni's leg, then it's quieter again but still tense because it is not going smoothly. The sound of the string stretching as Juni climbs up it is exaggerated greatly as it begins to stretch too far and then snaps to indicate and emphasis whats happening and the scariness of it and the music has also stopped again. The music again picks up pace as they fall but then calms down as they're still calmly falling into the volcano which feels like they've been falling "for like 3 hours". The sounds of the wind around them as they fall is exaggerated to show they're still falling and how far they're falling until they reach the loud sound effect of the fire at the end which is led to be just an illusion. 

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