Assighnment 4 sound desighn

The short from Pixar called, “For the Birds” I find, to be quite funny, and uses many principles of sound. During the entire film nobody talks, it’s very representational; it’s just a bunch of birds making honking noises, and other… odd noises. The noises the birds themselves make are not at all casual, giving the film a very odd feeling; however this also plays to the big bird, making him seem all that much more normal. The film has good proximity, such as the tapping of the toes when the camera pans out, also the sound the big bird makes towards the end becomes blended with the chirping of the little birds, showing illusion, just before the tense moment of when the bird is no longer holding the weight of the wire down. Movement is effectively shown when the little birds land with a loud squeak. It is also very easy to tell what the emotion of the birds during the entire thing, weather their fighting, mocking the big bird, or panicking at the prospect of being imminently launched into the air. The little birds also have a good speed or rhythm to their chirping, especially when they are cheering on the two birds in the center pecking at the big bird’s feet. Even thou the birds don’t actually sound like birds, we can easily tell through recognition that the birds are making the noises and not passing cars.

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Ext- day

A bird fly’s in and lands on a telephone wire. It ruffles its feathers and chirps as a second bird lands next to it. It stretches its wrings bumping into the other bird; the first bird pecks it in return. They begin to CHIRP at each other as a third bird lands, and is bumped by the first. The new bird begins to CHIRP at the other two birds as two more birds land. They also get bumped and start to CHIRP at each other. Soon there are no less than ten birds chirping and pecking each other, when the commotion is ended by a sudden and dumbly sounded “HAAAY”. The birds stop and look at the source of the new noise, a tall dopy looking bird sitting atop the telephone pole. The new bird waves and all the other birds look wide eyed at it. The big bird says “HIII”, as the little birds look at each other and begin to LAUGH, many of them poofing their feathers out, and honking, to look like the odd and dopy bird. This commotion is once again broken by the big bird making a “HAIIYIIAAA” noise. The big bird looks on cheerfully as the other little birds move away from the big bird toward the center of the telephone line. The little birds begin to CHIRP quietly to one another occasionally glancing at the big bird. The big bird then In a flurry of indistinguishable noises fly’s over to the little birds and lands right in the middle of them, pulling the telephone wire down accompanied by a long single BELL noise. All the little birds get pushed into the big bird, scrunching them all together. The little birds begin to CHIRP in protest of their no predicament. The big bird begins to CHIRP as well, thou it sounds more like a clutter of random words. One of the little birds PECKS the big bird, causing him to stretch out flailing his wings about with a long rush of odd words, and fall backwards hanging upside down on the telephone wire. The little birds slide together with a SQUEAK. The little birds then gain the idea to PECK at the big birds toes, knocking them off of the wire, and a furry of HAMMERING noises begins as the other birds begin to notice and CHIRP in unison. The big bird notices the activity and begins to SPEAK with them thou in its own odd language. Just before the last finger gives way one of the little birds gives an alarming CHIRP, the other birds make a PANIC NOISE, and the scene goes quite just before the big bird falls off of the wire. With a SPRING sound the little birds go flying into the air leaving their feathers behind. The big bird sits up and begins to blow on the various feathers that are cluttered around in the air around him. The first little bird lands with a SQUEAK, and the big bird LAUGHS at it, then the other birds land with a similar SQUEAK and the big bird begins to LAUGH hysterically. The little birds notice they do not have fathers and chirps and run finding only one hiding spot behind the big bird.

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