i never realised how much effort is put into sound design when actually its so crucial to the final product ! so cool to see the passion of sound designers
the sad thing is that most people dont even discover or know this type if details & quality in music or filmscores with their cheap soundbars and watching it over an ipad or smartphone
@@vtkz If they watch it on their iPad or smartphone the chances are quite high that they use headphones. And headphones are the best you can get for a low, affordable price.
I agree. "Top Gun" Maverick had great sound design. But "All Quiet" had innovative gonna influence the next 10 years or so of sound in movies kind of design and mix.
There's a radio drama in the UK called the Archers. Famously, someone wrote in to complain about the foley sounds of the characters pouring tea was cold water not hot! So they had to change it.
It's so lovely to see a german movie being recognized as a masterpiece. Not many german films are great , but this one was. It's not necessarily historical accurate nor especially close to the book , but a really good movie in its own right.
Le film déjà est absolument incroyable, mais avec ce sound design qui vient sublimer tout les aspects de se film, c'est une pure merveille, merci de nous avoir offert cette expérience !
Audio engineer and re-recording mixer here. If it’s done bad, u will disassemble everything in the movie, but if it’s done well you can enjoy the film and appreciate it even more. :)
We definitely end up disassembling things in our head, as Phil mentioned for bad movies you do it for everything and think about what you would have done, but for good movies often i'll find myself just thinking how cool the end product is - I'm still enjoying the film, just in a bit of a different way :P
Congrats already! I think you deserve the Oscar for the best film. Another master lesson for humanity: Wars are not needed, but a higher level of thinking among human beings to negotiate peace. I'm crossing my fingers already for the Oscars🤞. Peace✌️
the sad thing is that most people dont even discover or know this type if details & quality in music or filmscores with their cheap soundbars and watching it over an ipad or smartphone. Where you can only hear just a very small amount of details in the sound
I recently stayed in a hotel and there was some guy laying down tiles. Instead of hitting them to place with rubber mallet he just rubbed them with mallet's handle. And i'm not joking, it sounded 101% like someone was trying to coldstart a chainsaw for 3 hours straight
In trenches deep, where shadows danced, A tale of war, a world entranced, The craftsmen wove, with threads of sound, A portrait of a battleground. All Quiet on the Western Front, A symphony of war's blunt, Each tone and timbre, clash and wail, To tell a soldier's haunting tale. The sound designers toiled, and strained, To sculpt a world, forever stained, By war's fierce touch, its bitter cries, To breathe life in the severed ties. With cannons' roar, and rifles' crack, They painted strokes on war's dark track, To every scream and whispered prayer, The sounds of war, a love affair. A choir of wind, through battered trees, Caressed the air, a subtle breeze, A juxtaposition, calm and still, Against the backdrop of a kill. The rumble of the tanks approached, The churn of mud, a soldier's poach, In every deafening, earth-shaking boom, The sound designers wove their loom. And on this canvas, painted through, The symphony of war's debut, A soundscape, raw, and true, and rare, All Quiet on the Western Front laid bare. For in the hands of these skilled few, The art of sound, a world anew, And so, we pay our deep respects, To those who've shaped the war's effects.
I've often noticed the sound effect of people drinking out of beer bottles in movies/TV doesn't sound right (too much like luke warm water). Fresh beer sounds frothy. The Wire was classic for making that mistake!
I thought this movie was way too quiet. If you've ever been in an open area where multiple large caliber weapons are being fired simultaneously, it is absolutely deafening. The book describes WW1 battlefields as "vortex's of sound." I thought this movie should have been absolutely deafening. th-cam.com/video/r60FRUHacX4/w-d-xo.html This is a WW 1 movie that uses real sound. Specifically 56:39
No. This film does not use real sound. It was shot with multiple takes and the separate shots are edited together. Then the foley artists create the sound effects as they are watching the edited film.
Great movie, amazing remake on it's own right. European cinema has come a long way and the quality of productions reminds me of the golden Hollywood's years when they actually cared. Amazing WWI & WWII movies all around.
Okay but a muddy footstep is probably the easiest sound to get irl so why would i spend money on medical gel and go squishing it when I can just go outside
Now wait, I haven’t seen this yet… But… Did the French army really use flame throwers? Like I’m not a historian but I feel like that’s something I feel like I would have heard before.
There seems no specific French model but I would assume the British or US would supply them. List of Flamethrower models: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flamethrowers
Why not just record sounds of an actual soup being sloshed about or people falling on different surfaces? Why did they have to create a torso and such. Feel like you can cut out this step
Because they record those falling sounds hundreds of times which would hurt a person or they'd have to dress lots of people in uniforms. It's actually a lot more convenient.
microphones on set are mostly optimised for human speech. When it comes to the surround sound the director wants to be able to enhance certain features (wetness) to optimise for a unique athmosphere. To record everything on set and still be able to do this optimising you would essentially need a microphone for each boot that is walking through mud as an example.
@@gutpunkt Yes, but you do not have to do this in realtime. You can prerecord it with optimizing for this specific sound. Instead, they prerecord dudes squeezing wet breast implants :D
I often think : just RECORD the scene, suckers! Instead of trying to recreate everything. Some explained sounds probably are nonsense, like that of the tanks. The model of those too. They used Russian carriages for those, by the way. Oh, and those flamethrowers, nonsense!
This movie's sound design was next level, They really spared no expense
Couldn't agree more!
Except they literally did, with about 10% of the budget of an average marvel movie
Agreed
..in creativity.
German efficiency
i never realised how much effort is put into sound design when actually its so crucial to the final product ! so cool to see the passion of sound designers
Yes, sound design is a very ungrateful job. Most of the people don't know about this stuff. But it's worth it.
This seems like an exhausting job.
the sad thing is that most people dont even discover or know this type if details & quality in music or filmscores with their cheap soundbars and watching it over an ipad or smartphone
@@vtkz If they watch it on their iPad or smartphone the chances are quite high that they use headphones. And headphones are the best you can get for a low, affordable price.
those horn/synths that play in the opening and throughout the film give me chills everytime
It's actually neither horns nor synth. It's pretty analog. It's the distorted sound of a harmonium put through a Marshall amp. ;)
They deserved the Oscar for best sound.
I agree. "Top Gun" Maverick had great sound design. But "All Quiet" had innovative gonna influence the next 10 years or so of sound in movies kind of design and mix.
The cold/hot water thing literally blows my mind.
There's a radio drama in the UK called the Archers. Famously, someone wrote in to complain about the foley sounds of the characters pouring tea was cold water not hot! So they had to change it.
@@krustytoast that’s peak britishness
@@krustytoastlol I was just remarking a few days ago that I could *hear* when my shower got hot enough
You havn't much in your brain to blow, tbh. If you need an expert to get even known to basic human experiences.
@@unfiltered8060 man who hurt you
This is so amazing
U give that gawk gawk 3000
It's so lovely to see a german movie being recognized as a masterpiece. Not many german films are great , but this one was. It's not necessarily historical accurate nor especially close to the book , but a really good movie in its own right.
There are a lot of great German films. Stalingrad (1993), Das Boot to name a couple.
@@nicholasbarrett2204 Das Boot is the pinnacle of war films specifically the extended directors cut
@Nicholas Barrett annoys me so much when people say they think movies like enemy at the gates are amazing, when stalingrad is right there!
@@nicholasbarrett2204 2 isn't a lot
The Lives of Others is a perfect film. And Downfall is a masterpiece as well.
the dedication to detail is incredible
No racism please
Le film déjà est absolument incroyable, mais avec ce sound design qui vient sublimer tout les aspects de se film, c'est une pure merveille, merci de nous avoir offert cette expérience !
Mad respect for sound designers. I always wanted to do that.
quite incredible! I would have thought that it would be ALL computerised these days! Nice to know, it's still REAL people! What a great job!
This was by far the most immersive and captivating film ive wver seen. Best war movie ive ever seen in terms of how real it felt watching it
I'll be honest, within 5 minutes I thought it was way better than saving private ryan, which people put as the best war film.
Dude. Foley artists have the funnest job in the world I swear.
Thanks for taking the time to tell us more about what you do ---sound design.
3:45 finally someone who intended a pun
And yeah, like everyone else has said, that hot/cold water thing blew my mind.
The cup/glass expands as the boiling water fills it. So the acoustics of the cup/glass changes.
It's honestly insane for me to learn that a lot of people never notice this. It's something you do almost every day and it's such a big difference.
Congratulations, the sound design was one of many excellent elements to this powerful film
I never realized the magic that sound designers have. It is a super careful and interesting job.
Just wow!! All the effort was worth it! Will never forget the feeling we carried, coming out the cinema.
i ask myself if those people are able to enjoy movies without disassembling every sound bit in their head
Audio engineer and re-recording mixer here. If it’s done bad, u will disassemble everything in the movie, but if it’s done well you can enjoy the film and appreciate it even more. :)
We definitely end up disassembling things in our head, as Phil mentioned for bad movies you do it for everything and think about what you would have done, but for good movies often i'll find myself just thinking how cool the end product is - I'm still enjoying the film, just in a bit of a different way :P
@@CyanPhoenix_ curious to what you guys think of the sound design in mainstream movies like marvel and Star Wars?
@@CyanPhoenix_ And what books do you have to read to learn all that stuff?
These guys are amazing
This was an excellent film.
They did a good job on the sound design heard a lot of details on my surround sound set up
This is awesome to see the knowledge these people have to create this stuff. Seems like a lot of psychology goes into it.
Sound design deserves oscar!
They already do....
@@austincharles967 It was nominated for Best Sound. But _Top Gun: Maverick_ won the category.
Use the needle voice connect the machine gun is so incredible...
Congrats already! I think you deserve the Oscar for the best film. Another master lesson for humanity: Wars are not needed, but a higher level of thinking among human beings to negotiate peace. I'm crossing my fingers already for the Oscars🤞. Peace✌️
Making that dummy just to get those falling impact sounds is dedication
Klasse spannendes und inspirierendes Video. Richtig gute und kreative Arbeit.
this is so nice! it really takes your movie experience to another level
So happy you're doing these for technical categories!
WHOAAAA THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS CONTENT FOR US, SIR !!!
I love that the sound department has a lot of barbecues 😂🙌🏼
Sooo coooool to see this. Props to the sound engineers.
The GQ sound department must have been really nervous for this video
Jungs, ihr habt das großartig gemacht. 👍🏼
Great to know the use Soundtoys Sie-Q as well! Makes me feel like i’m doing my job correctly haha ❤
The sound in this movie sucked me in within the first minute. Truly outstanding
5:40 im very grateful they didn't use the cliché tinnitus sound effect because that effect triggers my tinnitus 🤗
Literally! Ever since I have a Tinnitus myself, I notice how many movies use that sound!
the sad thing is that most people dont even discover or know this type if details & quality in music or filmscores with their cheap soundbars and watching it over an ipad or smartphone. Where you can only hear just a very small amount of details in the sound
I recently stayed in a hotel and there was some guy laying down tiles. Instead of hitting them to place with rubber mallet he just rubbed them with mallet's handle. And i'm not joking, it sounded 101% like someone was trying to coldstart a chainsaw for 3 hours straight
Just wow. I’m beyond impressed.
how convenient this pops up the day i have to create a war soundscape for homework lol
Amazing. What effort goes into making a film.
You did great so kudos to you! Loved the movie.
masterpiece foley and sound design at all 😍😍😍
In trenches deep, where shadows danced,
A tale of war, a world entranced,
The craftsmen wove, with threads of sound,
A portrait of a battleground.
All Quiet on the Western Front,
A symphony of war's blunt,
Each tone and timbre, clash and wail,
To tell a soldier's haunting tale.
The sound designers toiled, and strained,
To sculpt a world, forever stained,
By war's fierce touch, its bitter cries,
To breathe life in the severed ties.
With cannons' roar, and rifles' crack,
They painted strokes on war's dark track,
To every scream and whispered prayer,
The sounds of war, a love affair.
A choir of wind, through battered trees,
Caressed the air, a subtle breeze,
A juxtaposition, calm and still,
Against the backdrop of a kill.
The rumble of the tanks approached,
The churn of mud, a soldier's poach,
In every deafening, earth-shaking boom,
The sound designers wove their loom.
And on this canvas, painted through,
The symphony of war's debut,
A soundscape, raw, and true, and rare,
All Quiet on the Western Front laid bare.
For in the hands of these skilled few,
The art of sound, a world anew,
And so, we pay our deep respects,
To those who've shaped the war's effects.
Chat GPT
Fantastic! Well done!
I always love these videos! So interesting and cool!
thanks for this!
Me: Describe German sense of humour shortly.
German: Pun intended.
I've often noticed the sound effect of people drinking out of beer bottles in movies/TV doesn't sound right (too much like luke warm water). Fresh beer sounds frothy. The Wire was classic for making that mistake!
Looks like a good movie
Asmr in another level
Very cool! Great movie
The movie looks great
Such a great movie💯
This job would be so cool, too bad I don't have any opportunities stuck here in Michigan.
Excellent.
I never realized how ingenious they were, I thought they built it all thru high end audio engines
Correct me if I'm wrong but why not simply use the real sounds that happened during the filming of the scenes?
Fantastic guest, thank you.
Great movie! It was hard for me to watch this movie!
I love sound design 👌🏽
1:41 Guess we all know what that "somehow" was 😂
The cup/glass expands as the boiling water fills it. So the acoustics of the cup/glass changes.
I thought this movie was way too quiet. If you've ever been in an open area where multiple large caliber weapons are being fired simultaneously, it is absolutely deafening. The book describes WW1 battlefields as "vortex's of sound." I thought this movie should have been absolutely deafening. th-cam.com/video/r60FRUHacX4/w-d-xo.html
This is a WW 1 movie that uses real sound. Specifically 56:39
No. This film does not use real sound. It was shot with multiple takes and the separate shots are edited together. Then the foley artists create the sound effects as they are watching the edited film.
Great movie, amazing remake on it's own right. European cinema has come a long way and the quality of productions reminds me of the golden Hollywood's years when they actually cared. Amazing WWI & WWII movies all around.
Ww1*
@@BreloomSoup Correct, it's the habit xD
Okay but a muddy footstep is probably the easiest sound to get irl so why would i spend money on medical gel and go squishing it when I can just go outside
English please.
Your shoes don't get dirty. :)
Where is the challenge in that
3:22 Diógenes?
Hmmmmmm...I wonder how they stumbled upon the sound that makes when you squeeze medical silicon 🤔
Seems like the most funny Job in the production
Hmm I wonder who squeezed the silicone first haha
This is how I found out they have or are.....
REMAKING THIS MOVIE!?!?!?!?!? 🤯🤯🤯
Hmmm, wonder how someone figured out how squeezing silicone made noise…
THIS is wjhy sound is very important to make a movie & or film.
Sound is 50% of the film
Wow! ❤
I would love to be a foley artist!
best of 2022
Now wait, I haven’t seen this yet… But… Did the French army really use flame throwers? Like I’m not a historian but I feel like that’s something I feel like I would have heard before.
Seemed nonsense to me too.
Yes, they did. They weren't used as frequently as the German flamethrowers, but Schilt flamethrowers were invented by the French and used 1917-1918.
They have
There seems no specific French model but I would assume the British or US would supply them.
List of Flamethrower models:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flamethrowers
Would be nice to have a translation for some of the trade jargon being used.
I used tenga eggs and kades the same sound
Bruh
Sometimes I wonder if they wouldn't be easier off just using the actual sounds though... 😅
Of course German deadmau5 is a sound designer
what is the little mic
I don't get it, all sounds must be recreated?
All I remember is the wailing
Why not just record sounds of an actual soup being sloshed about or people falling on different surfaces? Why did they have to create a torso and such. Feel like you can cut out this step
Because they record those falling sounds hundreds of times which would hurt a person or they'd have to dress lots of people in uniforms. It's actually a lot more convenient.
When ASMR becomes PTSD
2712 Emard Trail
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Sound designers… I always think they live like John Travolta in Blowout 🙃
I never understood why movies do this, instead of making your own sounds of someone walking why cant , YOU JUST RECORD THEM WALKING?
microphones on set are mostly optimised for human speech. When it comes to the surround sound the director wants to be able to enhance certain features (wetness) to optimise for a unique athmosphere. To record everything on set and still be able to do this optimising you would essentially need a microphone for each boot that is walking through mud as an example.
@@gutpunkt Yes, but you do not have to do this in realtime. You can prerecord it with optimizing for this specific sound. Instead, they prerecord dudes squeezing wet breast implants :D
@@gutpunkt that makes sense
@@StefanHoffmann84 why pay 2 people if you could just pay one person with some silicon :)
@@gutpunkt True :)
Jacob Collier would love to see (hear) this I assume 😊
ok cool, but why don't you just record real muddy footsteps?
Someone else has pointed this out, film microphones are usually optimised for speech. It is also cheaper to hire one person to produce the sound.
Instead of an Dnb and EDM artist i should become a sound designer, this looks sooo interesting
Cold and hot water sound different because you use different pots and pouring speed
6:24 no way this dummy weighs the same as actual human
Congrats to the guys on their Academy Award.
The film was nominated for Best Sound. But the Award went to _Top Gun: Maverick_ .
Spoiler alert needed, lol!
I often think : just RECORD the scene, suckers!
Instead of trying to recreate everything.
Some explained sounds probably are nonsense, like that of the tanks.
The model of those too.
They used Russian carriages for those, by the way.
Oh, and those flamethrowers, nonsense!
you're much less well informed than you think you are x
Shut up dude!
"They used Russian carriages for those by the way!"
Yes, because the St Chamond is over a century old 😂