What is a sound puppet?
Audio Puppetering is a term created by Ben Burtt's film sound, which describes the act of translating human language into another but recognizable forms. By using conventional sound patterns and the correct use of available sound vocabulary, sound puppetry can cause that inhumane speech is understandable to the human audience. This concept, pioneer Burtt, led to what some call the "robot", as the characters saw in Star Wars and Pixar's movie from 2008, Wall-e .
Ben Burtt is a well respected veteran of the film world, known for its creation, robot and creation. It was Burtt, which invented the language of Wookie for Star Wars , combining the sounds of bears, dogs, lions and irritated walrus to make a distinctive sound. Burtt also created the R2-D2 robotic language in Star Wars , maybe his first audience puppet experiment. For most viewers, R2-D2 has clear intentions that are understandable, Evan ACKOLi On uses only a number of robotic sounds to communicate.
Burtt describes sound puppetry as a form of translation. In the process of production Wall-E , screenwriter Andrew Stanton wrote the dialog line for the main character of the robot in English and Burtt would translate using the various sounds that Wall-E could make. Depending on the intuition of the audience and in conjunction with animators, this causes the intentions of the robot to be understandable to the human audience, even if the character does not speak human language.
One of the keys to a successful audio puppet puppet is to use sounds that are known to the audience. When creating Wookie, Burtt combined known sounds to create a new sound concept. Burtt suggested that this gives new credibility of creations, as it seems to be anchored in the world of the audience, rather not to make a real setting of the film.
Like people have vocabulary of words, we also have sound vocabularyu. We have the ability to recognize how laughter or crying and tend to associate meanings with certain sound patterns. If an audio formula that is similar to a rhythm, a tone or cadence formula is reproduced by an inhumane source, it can still carry a universal association. Thus, when R2-D2 causes a whipping moan, we understand the intention behind it as fear or anxiety. This is one of the backbone of a sound puppet puppet, the ability to fulfill inhumane figures with human emotions.
Films that included sound existed for less than a century, with the introduction of synchronized sound in the 1927 film Jazz Singer . Since its invention, the art and practice of film sound has become a creative focus of art and innovation. Through the contributions of Ben Burtt, Gary Rydstrom and other sound artists, the sound of the elemens, it is now as important as cinematography or direction. Sound puppet puppetry is still a young form of communication, but it seems to have a clear future because imaginationThe filmmakers are still rising to new worlds.