makes sense. sometimes though instead of blending it, it just stands out it a good way, like in davidproduction's anime (jojo and fire force). in those cases its really noticeable how good the sound design is, often enough that many times the sound design is the most memorable/notable part of the scene (like benimaru's crimson moon scene)
Kurzesagt is a good exampIe They actuaIIy create aII of their music to work with their videos and they even addressed that it was the most cruciaI part that no one seemed to notice
I was lucky enough to watch Look Back in a movie theater. Despite being mostly full, the entire room was dead silent in THAT scene, you know which one. I'd never been so overwhelmed by silence.
That's also why the Clone Wars Ending was so perfect. It wasn't complete silence but almost. No a single Word was spoken, the music kept to a bare minimum and there was just the silence of the ambiance.
When I rewatched Clone Wars with my sibling after telling them just how amazing it is and forced them to watch, we were dead silent the whole final scene. Took us a solid 30 seconds before I broke the silence to talk about it, and in doing so, opened the flood gates for the both of us.
That reminded me of a powerful scene in The Wolf Children, when she walks outside with her umbrella, and the pouring sound of the rain suddenly stops. Not so long after, when we see her talking and we don't hear anything, that's another similar scene. Both very powerful, with silence placed right. Some of the movies (animated or not) that I enjoy the most often have silent scenes, or really quiet ones. It feels like it's more ''real'' in a way.
You're perfectly capturing why I love sound design so much. It can have so much depth that often goes unnoticed unless you look for it since it just feels so right when done correctly.
This concept is what I've been into recently, to enjoy and respect quiet instead of trying to avoid them. It would be better to just enjoy the environment with all sense than trying to come up with whatever we have in our mind for an awkward conversation. Recently my friend failed a competition and no one in the class seem to realize his sadness, I was also one of them and just REALLY accidentally noticed the tears on his face. I just stood beside him and put a hand on his shoulder showing my empathy. He slowly started crying louder and louder until one of the friends near by actually noticed. Here's the part, they all came around him saying things like "don't be sad" " you did well" but those sentences helped nothing. I would prefer giving him privacy and compassion instead of filling his ear with meaningless encouragements. That's what we were hardcoded to do, giving meaningless encouragements which can be used in any situation instead of showing that we actually care and understand.
I wish our English speaking society was more comfortable with silence. I love my mother, but she really doesn't know how to shut up. Not that she talks too much [her talkativeness isn't the problem, I wouldn't call her talkative at all actually], but she can't let a second of silence pass by without making a noise or an exclamation or striking a conversation about nothing. Going as far as to poke and prod me for clues in my body language. The older I get, the more insecurity I see. I've told her that she doesn't need to fill the silence, but it's like her mortal enemy. Because of this, coupled with being autistic, I've grown up paranoid of silence between me and another person. I don't dislike silence, I enjoy it even. You know we're really tight when we can be comfortably silent together. That's nearly impossible to achieve however, because I'm constantly on edge expecting you to interject suddenly, or worry that you are expecting me to say something. I just want to unlearn this.
@@extrapathos well not really my point, your mother is talkative because it is a part of her personality and is really hard to change considering her age, however, her annoyance is still something that I can't understand if I haven't met her. About my point, I meant we were taught by fiction and media that silence in conversation is awkward, which should be an obsolete mindset. Now that I rethink, maybe Vietnamese really love their language, they only listen to lyrical songs. Likely to be true because it can be hard to determine a Vietnamese song without lyrics or images. Maybe the reason I love silence is because I was hardly influenced by European cultures especially Etiquette where they utilize more sign language and gesture. There are a lot of times I walked into bedroom at midnight and my mother was sleeping. I only do sign language to indicate my father that I'd turn on the light(pointing to the lightbulb) and he shouted(not really shout but his ordinary tone can sounds really noisy in silence), triggering the pain mechanism in my brain.(digress from the subject at this point)
This is something Evangelion did fantastically. You'd get scenes with Shiro Sagisu's bombastic score, then... nothing. Usually it's used to capture the concept of Shinji's sense of isolation, removing sound for just long enough to be jarring then slowly reintroducing it as if coming to consciousness from a dream.
Sound design is that hidden gem that can elevate a simple game into an amazing one. I remember several years ago, during Steam Next Fest, I opened up the demo for Tinykin. Had mild interest in it as an indie pikmin-like, but then I spent 5 whole minutes walking around the starting 30 ft circle before progressing through the tutorial because it was LAYERED with multiple types of ground materials (hardwood floor, carpet, some kind of toy platform) and EACH MATERIAL had unique walk/run/jump/land SFX that shifted seamlessly as you moved around. Captured my attention and made me IMMEDIATELY want to buy & play the rest of the game purely because I could tell that the world was crafted with such care & quality.
Reminds me of a masterful episode of *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* wherein a key satellite character has died; there's a scene when the school-age daughter gets told, and not only do we lose the actual words being spoken, but the camera drops away from the characters going through the emotion and lingers on the art project that the daughter was just working on -- literally an exercise in negative space. I do think that dropping out of the actual sound/words and into the concept of the moment often serves better than any actual words or sounds that could be crafted for that moment. The viewers bring their own awareness of moments that humanity shares, and sometimes it's best to just let us sit with that awareness and what that concept means to us at that moment in our lives. (Kinda like how my mom spent the bulk of *Finding Nemo* crying due to the thoughts it brought up about her youngest. The rest of the family, though sitting right beside her, not only didn't share the emotion but didn't even realize it had so strongly affected her until after the movie was over.)
Look, what am I supposed to say right now? Screw you for making me discover the best, most emotional movie I have seen in a while. (But really, thank you.)
I don't have much to say but thank you for creating. I opened one of your videos and saw that it was about Look Back, but I hadn't yet watched it, that was the impetus I needed to go and watch it finally. Utterly in awe of how beautiful it is. Painful and so beautiful.
Reminded me of the scene in Your Name when the meteor hit. Also saw it used well in an episode of 365 Days To The Wedding when one of the main characters is screaming-shows a volcano erupting with sound, cuts to her face, screaming with no sound, then repeats that a few times. (Also gave the voice actor's throat a break. :) )
As someone who is trying to dip into a lot of different fields to make my story come to life. I've found that a lot of places promote you using the big, the loud, the flashy, but at the same time, if you weather those storms, you'll find that it is the soft, the silent, and the still that can also add to the story... any story. Thank you for the micro dive, and the reinforcement of me learning not just the bigger picture, but the smaller details that makes something FEEL right.
I really like the idea of this series! I love deep dives, but sometimes I don't have the time for an hours long documentary. Bite sized pieces of different topics sounds wonderful. I'll definitely be following along :)
Really excellent analysis! The editing in your videos is also really impressive I feel like I'm learning a lot on how to craft a story of a deep dive from just watching your videos
Loved this video! It’s wild to me creators have to explain why they’re making videos that aren’t 20 minutes+ when 5 minute videos used to be the normal. It’s fine that norms change, but this video that is succinct and thoughtful I vastly prefer over something that tried to artificially inflate its runtime.
In general, restraint in media is underutilized. Done well it elevates a masterpiece and done poorly it just feels like a mistake. Love the analysis. Keep it up.
I love and appreciate this channel, I just watched Bleach TYBW cour 3 and the many things I noticed more now wete profound. It makes me watch a lot more from the same scene. It's difficult to put in words but I see movies and anime a lot better and it's thanks to your channel. Thanks a lot pls keep up the great work.
"knowing when to do or not do something" is important in almost everything in life. As a software developer, you have to know when certain abstractions or refactorings are beneficial. As an artist, you sometimes have to discard scenes because they don't match the plot, despite how cool it would be if it happened
Wow, this was a great first video to see from your channel. Really powerful and emotional video, you did the original works justice in your narration and discussion, Im adding this anime to my watch list and Im subbing for more.
i like how the sound kind of surrounds fujino and kyomoto, alongside the animation, making them the main focus (kind of?) also, when you talked about the scenes cutting off before they laugh, it reminds me of jjk 0, where at the end it silences gojo’s words to geto-because those words are for geto and geto only. so, bringing this back to look back, it’s like these scenes are just for fujino and kyomoto only, and is really fitting given the whole story i think! (it also kind of gives them a more human aspect too, since yes, they are characters, but because we can’t hear these scenes, it gives a certain depth-like we are just watching them)
Look Back felt like an axe in the guts for me and my friends. we knew what we were going to see, and we knew it was going to be a painful reminder of our own struggle as persons and artists.
Truly what you expected from the author who can levitate and showed us how to xD Sound design is really underrated in anime. Glad people recognize it as important as everything else in creating anime
A strange tangent, I'm reminded of "Er ist wieder da" where the titular Er opens up his first televised speech with a full minute of silence just to build suspense. People expect to hear things, talking, musical score, foley, the movie even lampshades it with narration and producers conversing so us as the audience aren't subjected to it. A lack of sound where there was none is pure subversion that both catches people off guard and puts them on edge at the same time and in both cases it makes the audience pay more attention.
Im very happy to have found this channel, I one day want to create movie-styled edit from my gameplay that are similar to a youtuber i liked "frost" who is playing rust, however since I mainly play other games compared to him it makes it hard to find a way of presenting the ups and downs or emphasize certain scenes to make it interesting, but through this channel I'm learning new options and ways it could be done, a different perspective on things regardless if its sound design, character design etc. is very interesting to me and helpful in understanding how to present something in a way that is not over-edited to make someone keep attention to a story/scene. Even though I struggle with other keypoints right now, learning something like this early on will defently make it easier for me eventually to do what I like without making it feel forced which im really happy about :)
I think one of the best examples of silence as sound design would have to be the lightspeed collision scene from star wars: the last jedi, when the collision initially happens, it is completely silent playing the whole sequence with no sound. Despite being a scene contested by quite a few people for lore reasons, it definitely had an incredible impact on the viewing experience.
Made me think of Planetes, which I finished just yesterday. While they are in Space, in never hear anything that the vacuum of space makes it impossible to hear, causing for all the quick breathing sounds seem so much more agonizing in key moments, because they are all that you can hear in the moment. nerve-wracking and powerful.
i found this sort of sound design and inclusion of quiet scenes also in the Liz and the Blue Bird. for being a story offshoot about orchestra there was a lot of low audio volume yet dramatically impactful moments. Driving home after the viewing (in theatre!) i kept the radio off to marinate in the calm.
Hearing you talk about this immediately brings to mind the Days with my Stepsister anime. I know the name might not immediately be something you'd want to make a video on lol, but I thought the anime was really interesting. I couldn't say the animation was super amazing, but the composition of it and ESPECIALLY the use of silence was really well illustrated there. I remember one scene where it just stays on the two main protagonists eating dinner together and things are a bit strained between them, and the silence (apart from the sounds of eating) and staying on that shot for so long really helps illustrate that feeling, helping you feel what THEY are feeling as the viewer. I'd be curious to hear what you thought about it if you've seen it.
Thank you for this topic and theme to explore. And thank you for this example, I will watch it because I am intrigued and interested in it. Because of this video. Silence is as important as noise and ambient. Take care of yourself and have a nice day. ✨
An example of what you explained that I have seen before is definitely episode 8 of a TH-cam Webseries called ONE. Barely anyone speaks, except for the weatherman. It really encapsulates the feelings the main character is feeling.
@pey - loved this video. Another example of an entire show (12 ep) that uses silence masterfully is Sonny Boy. When the music kicks, you know you're in for emotions and a ride. Now that's one show you'd be able to make analysis videos for years on. Lol
If you read Fugimoto's works, he actually does this in a lot in his manga. He'll forgo drawing any sound effects or have any speech and just convey the emotions through the art alone. Im glad his works are getting the absolutely beautiful treatments they deserve, and I hope to see this trend continue.
This makes me think of the Hyperspace Ram from The Last Jedi. Plot-controversy aside the use of silence in that scene made it an absolute audio-visual masterpiece.
Art is best when the effect of a decision in the piece is there intentionally to bring out an intended response. Art as an expression is the raw material, as a craft is very intentional, and oftentimes takes from inspiration that was refined and raw before. In that sense, it makes perfect sense that silence is the potency of a moment forced to consume your every sense, because sound is handrail of mood that guides visuals in video, taking that guardrail off can force great vulnerability, an intimacy, in that contrast.
I’ve been watching a series made by a TH-camr named Ivory, called Whitepine. It’s made in Minecraft. It’s a period drama, about a girl who got hired as a servant in a mansion, and it uses this concept quite often, and perfectly. I highly recommend anyone reading this to watch it. Ivory is such a good director.
Reminds me of how Disney’s English dub of Castle in the Sky added music to a scene near the end. The sound design in the Japanese dub builds tension, while the music makes seem it fun and exciting. I like the dub cast and Joe Hisaishi’s score but that was a change for the worse.
Pey, a lovely little essay. I liked that you included the great: Miles Davis, because, listening to Kind of Blue, you hear his brilliance in holding that one note and letting it die, naturally. At the time, Jazz was filled with innovation, and the innovation was usually showcased by technical virtuosity. "How many different notes can I play, one after the other, in the shortest time possible?" And, yes: that was spectacular to witness this kind of showmanship. Then there was Miles David, and he got up on stage and he played and the world ... stopped. This was more than technical accomplishment: this was love, pure, sweet, love that he shared with us in this brief moment in time that extended out into Eternity. Connecting Miles David to your video essay about the use of silence in Look Back was both genius, and when told, also obvious: and that's how we, your audience, just feels that this is a good essay. Keep sharing your insights!
Brief videos are nice to watch/listen to when there's only a couple minutes, or when I want something that just isn't LONG. >.> As a fan of Mauler and EFAP... there's a DEFINITE place in my viewing roster for someone who can make short content that has good insight and good points.
Sound design tends to be neglected because if it's good, it blends in naturally, so you probably don't notice it
makes sense. sometimes though instead of blending it, it just stands out it a good way, like in davidproduction's anime (jojo and fire force). in those cases its really noticeable how good the sound design is, often enough that many times the sound design is the most memorable/notable part of the scene (like benimaru's crimson moon scene)
It's a permutation of the VFX problem- good VFX is intended to not look like VFX
Kurzesagt is a good exampIe
They actuaIIy create aII of their music to work with their videos and they even addressed that it was the most cruciaI part that no one seemed to notice
Apex legends
When it's done well in a game though it can make the game a lot more immersive, and that on the other hand can be really (pleasantly) surprising.
During the video my laptop's fans started to spin loudly and interrupted the silence.
Laptop is that one annoying cartoon character that interrupts the lovers just before they kiss
@RWR785 I hate those scenes with aII my being
@RWR785 Laptop Kun
Wrong
That was actually the sound edited into the video
Peak soundesign
@@5h4k80 So was the sound of your mom yeIIing at you to get off your device
True sound design frfr
I paused this halfway through, watched the movie, cried and came back
Glad to know you enjoyed it!
@@monotromatic I did
I did the same after reading your comment. I cried too, but i witnessed one of the best works I've ever seen
Same, it is a masterpiece
I did! Good to know I wasn't alone
I was lucky enough to watch Look Back in a movie theater. Despite being mostly full, the entire room was dead silent in THAT scene, you know which one. I'd never been so overwhelmed by silence.
When I went to the theater, it was so full we had to buy tickets to Transformers One and sneak in
I love when silence is used well in shows and movies. It has such an impact.
Despite what others may say, please continue this series.
Oh, also, please create a playlist for this series.
That's also why the Clone Wars Ending was so perfect. It wasn't complete silence but almost. No a single Word was spoken, the music kept to a bare minimum and there was just the silence of the ambiance.
Seends chills down my spine just thinking of that ending again
When I rewatched Clone Wars with my sibling after telling them just how amazing it is and forced them to watch, we were dead silent the whole final scene. Took us a solid 30 seconds before I broke the silence to talk about it, and in doing so, opened the flood gates for the both of us.
That reminded me of a powerful scene in The Wolf Children, when she walks outside with her umbrella, and the pouring sound of the rain suddenly stops. Not so long after, when we see her talking and we don't hear anything, that's another similar scene. Both very powerful, with silence placed right. Some of the movies (animated or not) that I enjoy the most often have silent scenes, or really quiet ones. It feels like it's more ''real'' in a way.
You're perfectly capturing why I love sound design so much. It can have so much depth that often goes unnoticed unless you look for it since it just feels so right when done correctly.
This concept is what I've been into recently, to enjoy and respect quiet instead of trying to avoid them. It would be better to just enjoy the environment with all sense than trying to come up with whatever we have in our mind for an awkward conversation.
Recently my friend failed a competition and no one in the class seem to realize his sadness, I was also one of them and just REALLY accidentally noticed the tears on his face. I just stood beside him and put a hand on his shoulder showing my empathy. He slowly started crying louder and louder until one of the friends near by actually noticed. Here's the part, they all came around him saying things like "don't be sad" " you did well" but those sentences helped nothing. I would prefer giving him privacy and compassion instead of filling his ear with meaningless encouragements.
That's what we were hardcoded to do, giving meaningless encouragements which can be used in any situation instead of showing that we actually care and understand.
I wish our English speaking society was more comfortable with silence.
I love my mother, but she really doesn't know how to shut up. Not that she talks too much [her talkativeness isn't the problem, I wouldn't call her talkative at all actually], but she can't let a second of silence pass by without making a noise or an exclamation or striking a conversation about nothing. Going as far as to poke and prod me for clues in my body language. The older I get, the more insecurity I see. I've told her that she doesn't need to fill the silence, but it's like her mortal enemy.
Because of this, coupled with being autistic, I've grown up paranoid of silence between me and another person. I don't dislike silence, I enjoy it even. You know we're really tight when we can be comfortably silent together. That's nearly impossible to achieve however, because I'm constantly on edge expecting you to interject suddenly, or worry that you are expecting me to say something. I just want to unlearn this.
@@extrapathos well not really my point, your mother is talkative because it is a part of her personality and is really hard to change considering her age, however, her annoyance is still something that I can't understand if I haven't met her.
About my point, I meant we were taught by fiction and media that silence in conversation is awkward, which should be an obsolete mindset.
Now that I rethink, maybe Vietnamese really love their language, they only listen to lyrical songs. Likely to be true because it can be hard to determine a Vietnamese song without lyrics or images. Maybe the reason I love silence is because I was hardly influenced by European cultures especially Etiquette where they utilize more sign language and gesture.
There are a lot of times I walked into bedroom at midnight and my mother was sleeping. I only do sign language to indicate my father that I'd turn on the light(pointing to the lightbulb) and he shouted(not really shout but his ordinary tone can sounds really noisy in silence), triggering the pain mechanism in my brain.(digress from the subject at this point)
This is something Evangelion did fantastically. You'd get scenes with Shiro Sagisu's bombastic score, then... nothing. Usually it's used to capture the concept of Shinji's sense of isolation, removing sound for just long enough to be jarring then slowly reintroducing it as if coming to consciousness from a dream.
Sound design is that hidden gem that can elevate a simple game into an amazing one. I remember several years ago, during Steam Next Fest, I opened up the demo for Tinykin. Had mild interest in it as an indie pikmin-like, but then I spent 5 whole minutes walking around the starting 30 ft circle before progressing through the tutorial because it was LAYERED with multiple types of ground materials (hardwood floor, carpet, some kind of toy platform) and EACH MATERIAL had unique walk/run/jump/land SFX that shifted seamlessly as you moved around. Captured my attention and made me IMMEDIATELY want to buy & play the rest of the game purely because I could tell that the world was crafted with such care & quality.
I'll often find myself in the mood to watch something with this exact attention to detail and atmosphere. I'm a sucker for pensive/slow burn stuff
i like that ending line, "thanks for exploring this little idea with me", with the delivery as well, it feels so....like we're close
Reminds me of a masterful episode of *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* wherein a key satellite character has died; there's a scene when the school-age daughter gets told, and not only do we lose the actual words being spoken, but the camera drops away from the characters going through the emotion and lingers on the art project that the daughter was just working on -- literally an exercise in negative space.
I do think that dropping out of the actual sound/words and into the concept of the moment often serves better than any actual words or sounds that could be crafted for that moment. The viewers bring their own awareness of moments that humanity shares, and sometimes it's best to just let us sit with that awareness and what that concept means to us at that moment in our lives. (Kinda like how my mom spent the bulk of *Finding Nemo* crying due to the thoughts it brought up about her youngest. The rest of the family, though sitting right beside her, not only didn't share the emotion but didn't even realize it had so strongly affected her until after the movie was over.)
Look, what am I supposed to say right now? Screw you for making me discover the best, most emotional movie I have seen in a while.
(But really, thank you.)
I don't have much to say but thank you for creating. I opened one of your videos and saw that it was about Look Back, but I hadn't yet watched it, that was the impetus I needed to go and watch it finally. Utterly in awe of how beautiful it is. Painful and so beautiful.
love the way the text always spirals around in your videos
Look Back was excellent in terms of it’s direction.
i was postponing watching look back, that thing. WAS PERFECT.
Every now and then something I’m watching locks in with the sound editing and catches me off guard.
Those moments really stand out to me
Reminded me of the scene in Your Name when the meteor hit.
Also saw it used well in an episode of 365 Days To The Wedding when one of the main characters is screaming-shows a volcano erupting with sound, cuts to her face, screaming with no sound, then repeats that a few times. (Also gave the voice actor's throat a break. :) )
I love these smaller documentaries as it really is a bite sized piece that makes you feel amazing
As someone who is trying to dip into a lot of different fields to make my story come to life. I've found that a lot of places promote you using the big, the loud, the flashy, but at the same time, if you weather those storms, you'll find that it is the soft, the silent, and the still that can also add to the story... any story.
Thank you for the micro dive, and the reinforcement of me learning not just the bigger picture, but the smaller details that makes something FEEL right.
I love how this film is willing to sit in a moment. Reminds me of Studio Ghibli.
Exactly why I love studio ghibli films
I really like the idea of this series! I love deep dives, but sometimes I don't have the time for an hours long documentary. Bite sized pieces of different topics sounds wonderful. I'll definitely be following along :)
Great essay! Keep creating, the world needs your voice! Much love
Really excellent analysis! The editing in your videos is also really impressive I feel like I'm learning a lot on how to craft a story of a deep dive from just watching your videos
Loved this video! It’s wild to me creators have to explain why they’re making videos that aren’t 20 minutes+ when 5 minute videos used to be the normal. It’s fine that norms change, but this video that is succinct and thoughtful I vastly prefer over something that tried to artificially inflate its runtime.
In general, restraint in media is underutilized. Done well it elevates a masterpiece and done poorly it just feels like a mistake. Love the analysis. Keep it up.
Your videos themselves are works of beauty. Thank-you for pointing me towards good shows I never would have found otherwise.
I love and appreciate this channel, I just watched Bleach TYBW cour 3 and the many things I noticed more now wete profound. It makes me watch a lot more from the same scene. It's difficult to put in words but I see movies and anime a lot better and it's thanks to your channel. Thanks a lot pls keep up the great work.
For some reason exploration of this topic moved me greatly.
"knowing when to do or not do something" is important in almost everything in life. As a software developer, you have to know when certain abstractions or refactorings are beneficial. As an artist, you sometimes have to discard scenes because they don't match the plot, despite how cool it would be if it happened
you have gained my subscription as i didnt know you did other series than deep dives of frieren
Same principle applies in drawing and shot compositions. Negative space is just as important as the things you paint or fill with subjects.
For whatever reason, I got a wave of so much emotion during this video and I couldn’t describe why. I just wanted to share
Thanks for your videos like this one, it's inspiring for me. The shorter format with slow pacing is perfect. Can't wait to hear your next subject. ^^
Wow, this was a great first video to see from your channel. Really powerful and emotional video, you did the original works justice in your narration and discussion, Im adding this anime to my watch list and Im subbing for more.
your presentations are so elite man. and you make great points
Its a good day when pey uploads
Getting closer to 100k Pey! Well deserved!
They got there!!! やったね!
i like how the sound kind of surrounds fujino and kyomoto, alongside the animation, making them the main focus (kind of?)
also, when you talked about the scenes cutting off before they laugh, it reminds me of jjk 0, where at the end it silences gojo’s words to geto-because those words are for geto and geto only.
so, bringing this back to look back, it’s like these scenes are just for fujino and kyomoto only, and is really fitting given the whole story i think! (it also kind of gives them a more human aspect too, since yes, they are characters, but because we can’t hear these scenes, it gives a certain depth-like we are just watching them)
Look Back felt like an axe in the guts for me and my friends. we knew what we were going to see, and we knew it was going to be a painful reminder of our own struggle as persons and artists.
Truly what you expected from the author who can levitate and showed us how to xD
Sound design is really underrated in anime. Glad people recognize it as important as everything else in creating anime
Great insight into how seamless the sound design elevates the visuals. I wish to incorporate more of these into my own films :)
Hey I just wanted to say that this is the first of your videos I've ever seen and I really enjoyed it. Thank you for making this.
A strange tangent, I'm reminded of "Er ist wieder da" where the titular Er opens up his first televised speech with a full minute of silence just to build suspense. People expect to hear things, talking, musical score, foley, the movie even lampshades it with narration and producers conversing so us as the audience aren't subjected to it. A lack of sound where there was none is pure subversion that both catches people off guard and puts them on edge at the same time and in both cases it makes the audience pay more attention.
congrats on 100k!!!
thank you!
Im very happy to have found this channel, I one day want to create movie-styled edit from my gameplay that are similar to a youtuber i liked "frost" who is playing rust, however since I mainly play other games compared to him it makes it hard to find a way of presenting the ups and downs or emphasize certain scenes to make it interesting, but through this channel I'm learning new options and ways it could be done, a different perspective on things regardless if its sound design, character design etc. is very interesting to me and helpful in understanding how to present something in a way that is not over-edited to make someone keep attention to a story/scene. Even though I struggle with other keypoints right now, learning something like this early on will defently make it easier for me eventually to do what I like without making it feel forced which im really happy about :)
I think one of the best examples of silence as sound design would have to be the lightspeed collision scene from star wars: the last jedi, when the collision initially happens, it is completely silent playing the whole sequence with no sound. Despite being a scene contested by quite a few people for lore reasons, it definitely had an incredible impact on the viewing experience.
Made me think of Planetes, which I finished just yesterday. While they are in Space, in never hear anything that the vacuum of space makes it impossible to hear, causing for all the quick breathing sounds seem so much more agonizing in key moments, because they are all that you can hear in the moment.
nerve-wracking and powerful.
i found this sort of sound design and inclusion of quiet scenes also in the Liz and the Blue Bird. for being a story offshoot about orchestra there was a lot of low audio volume yet dramatically impactful moments. Driving home after the viewing (in theatre!) i kept the radio off to marinate in the calm.
Hearing you talk about this immediately brings to mind the Days with my Stepsister anime. I know the name might not immediately be something you'd want to make a video on lol, but I thought the anime was really interesting. I couldn't say the animation was super amazing, but the composition of it and ESPECIALLY the use of silence was really well illustrated there. I remember one scene where it just stays on the two main protagonists eating dinner together and things are a bit strained between them, and the silence (apart from the sounds of eating) and staying on that shot for so long really helps illustrate that feeling, helping you feel what THEY are feeling as the viewer. I'd be curious to hear what you thought about it if you've seen it.
Thank you for this topic and theme to explore. And thank you for this example, I will watch it because I am intrigued and interested in it. Because of this video. Silence is as important as noise and ambient. Take care of yourself and have a nice day. ✨
I admit that I zoomed out duriung the intro but when the silents kicked in It hit me like a brick as weired as it sounds, well placed silents
I was not expecting to see this in my recommended, but watching it was definitely worth it.
An example of what you explained that I have seen before is definitely episode 8 of a TH-cam Webseries called ONE. Barely anyone speaks, except for the weatherman. It really encapsulates the feelings the main character is feeling.
this video and channel is a hidden gem
my hand must hhave smeared through the fabric of the universe with how quickly I clicked on this video
These shorter videos are perfect. Please keep them going
@pey - loved this video. Another example of an entire show (12 ep) that uses silence masterfully is Sonny Boy. When the music kicks, you know you're in for emotions and a ride. Now that's one show you'd be able to make analysis videos for years on. Lol
i love Look Back so much
I'm glad I stumbled onto this video, I've never even heard of this film before, I'll gladly check it out sometime after seeing this video. Thanks.
always a treat in my week!
this video gave my daily dose of random late night inspiration, and I mean that as a conpliment
lovely video. you have some wonderfully insightful things to say
First video i watch of this channel, it was a good one, well done sir
i could listen to you talk for hours
I'm glad I used headphones. Thanks for making this :)
Thanks for reminding that this great manga that i have reread and reread has gotten animated as I forgot to save the release date
If you read Fugimoto's works, he actually does this in a lot in his manga. He'll forgo drawing any sound effects or have any speech and just convey the emotions through the art alone. Im glad his works are getting the absolutely beautiful treatments they deserve, and I hope to see this trend continue.
Going to have to watch later with headphones, I guess.
Thank you for sharing 😊
Samurai Jack did this really well. It's absolutely incredible.
loved the movie, and love your study on it so much
I just came across your channel and am loving your videos. Keep up the great work!
The play the notes that aren’t there also fits with the Music is sound which shaped itself around silence. Basically you need both
FEATURING LOOK BACK???? I love this movie so much
This makes me think of the Hyperspace Ram from The Last Jedi. Plot-controversy aside the use of silence in that scene made it an absolute audio-visual masterpiece.
I really enjoyed this video. Keep it up please. Thanks!
Art is best when the effect of a decision in the piece is there intentionally to bring out an intended response. Art as an expression is the raw material, as a craft is very intentional, and oftentimes takes from inspiration that was refined and raw before. In that sense, it makes perfect sense that silence is the potency of a moment forced to consume your every sense, because sound is handrail of mood that guides visuals in video, taking that guardrail off can force great vulnerability, an intimacy, in that contrast.
This was a really cool video! Another anime that plays really well with sound is wolf children, I’d recommend giving it a listen
One of my favourite examples of sound design is the Seismic Bombs and Imploders from Star Wars
another amazing video pey :))
Sometimes silence fills the void of the piece
Actual Pey the musician jumpscare
just like space its wide and silent, but dark and with sparkling light
Sound Design is very underrated
The title was really throwing me off. After hearing the intro I went "ohhhhh! that's what they meant!"
Perfection is noticed when it suddenly stops.
New subscriber! Thank you so much for bringing this movie to my attention, pey. ^‿^
Great vid I subscribed!
I’ve been watching a series made by a TH-camr named Ivory, called Whitepine. It’s made in Minecraft. It’s a period drama, about a girl who got hired as a servant in a mansion, and it uses this concept quite often, and perfectly. I highly recommend anyone reading this to watch it. Ivory is such a good director.
Reminds me of how Disney’s English dub of Castle in the Sky added music to a scene near the end. The sound design in the Japanese dub builds tension, while the music makes seem it fun and exciting. I like the dub cast and Joe Hisaishi’s score but that was a change for the worse.
honestly i watch these n its js why i love anime sm 💀
Brb, gotta go watch that now
The scene in Oppenheimer when the nuke test detonates and theres complete silence, that's just 🤌
The new movie The Colors within is another amazing example of this, many times scenes with no music and very minimalist Ost
Pey, a lovely little essay. I liked that you included the great: Miles Davis, because, listening to Kind of Blue, you hear his brilliance in holding that one note and letting it die, naturally. At the time, Jazz was filled with innovation, and the innovation was usually showcased by technical virtuosity. "How many different notes can I play, one after the other, in the shortest time possible?" And, yes: that was spectacular to witness this kind of showmanship. Then there was Miles David, and he got up on stage and he played and the world ... stopped. This was more than technical accomplishment: this was love, pure, sweet, love that he shared with us in this brief moment in time that extended out into Eternity.
Connecting Miles David to your video essay about the use of silence in Look Back was both genius, and when told, also obvious: and that's how we, your audience, just feels that this is a good essay.
Keep sharing your insights!
Brief videos are nice to watch/listen to when there's only a couple minutes, or when I want something that just isn't LONG.
>.> As a fan of Mauler and EFAP... there's a DEFINITE place in my viewing roster for someone who can make short content that has good insight and good points.