How Sound Designers Crafted Tones of War in 'All Quiet on the Western Front' | Fine Points | GQ
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- A block of medical silicone = muddy footsteps. A toy car riding down an air conditioning duct = tanks rolling into the battlefield. Sound designers Markus Stemler, Frank Kruse and their team made use of a variety of wild sounds to create a wartime collage for the picture "All Quiet on the Western Front." Markus and Frank break down some of the most iconic scenes from the film, and explain how they soundtracked these moments with incredible foley work.
Director: Kristen Rakes
Director of Photography: AJ Young
Editor: Gerard Zarra
Talent: Markus Stemler and Frank Kruse
Executive Producer: Traci Oshiro
Producer: Kristen Rakes
Associate Producer: Sam Dennis
Production Manager: Andressa Pelachi
Production and Equipment Manager: Kevin Balash
Gaffer/ Camera Operator: Lucas Vilicich
Audio: Paul Cornett
Production Assistants: John Brodsky, Gee Depratt
Post Production Supervisor: Rachael Knight
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Rob Lombardi
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
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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.
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
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.
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!
1927's Metropolis was one of the first sci-fi films made, legendary German film, but I think actual native non-english speaking films nowadays tend to do worse unless quite special or realistic
@@nicholasbarrett2204 2 isn't a lot
film production is so fascinating i wonder if or how i could ever begin to land a career in any one of these crews
It’s overwhelmingly who you know in this industry; significantly more than other industries. Knowing someone high up and being in the right place (I.e. city like LA) helps you tremendously. There are other routes though like Hollywood CPR which is like a college course with a loose pathway to get you directly into the industry. But also be aware it’s a tough industry with sometimes very little pay and always very long hours (12 hour minimum every day).
Source to all of this - I’ve worked on three massive productions
My man's asking the real questions
that pfp is a crime
The menace in the soundtrack is brilliant.
This is so amazing
U give that gawk gawk 3000
man... gawx can i marry u
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?
Dude. Foley artists have the funnest job in the world I swear.
the dedication to detail is incredible
No racism please
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!
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 !
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.
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.
I never realized the magic that sound designers have. It is a super careful and interesting job.
Thanks for taking the time to tell us more about what you do ---sound design.
This was an excellent film.
These guys are amazing
The GQ sound department must have been really nervous for this video
Congratulations, the sound design was one of many excellent elements to this powerful film
This was the best war movie to date that I've seen. Sound design is very well done too.
I love that the sound department has a lot of barbecues 😂🙌🏼
Making that dummy just to get those falling impact sounds is dedication
Sound design deserves oscar!
They already do....
@@austincharles967 It was nominated for Best Sound. But _Top Gun: Maverick_ won the category.
Just wow!! All the effort was worth it! Will never forget the feeling we carried, coming out the cinema.
So happy you're doing these for technical categories!
Klasse spannendes und inspirierendes Video. Richtig gute und kreative Arbeit.
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.
this is so nice! it really takes your movie experience to another level
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✌️
I always love these videos! So interesting and cool!
Sooo coooool to see this. Props to the sound engineers.
Just wow. I’m beyond impressed.
Fantastic! Well done!
masterpiece foley and sound design at all 😍😍😍
Jungs, ihr habt das großartig gemacht. 👍🏼
WHOAAAA THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS CONTENT FOR US, SIR !!!
thanks for this!
You did great so kudos to you! Loved the movie.
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!
Amazing. What effort goes into making a film.
Very cool! Great movie
Excellent.
Great to know the use Soundtoys Sie-Q as well! Makes me feel like i’m doing my job correctly haha ❤
Such a great movie💯
Use the needle voice connect the machine gun is so incredible...
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
how convenient this pops up the day i have to create a war soundscape for homework lol
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.
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Me: Describe German sense of humour shortly.
German: Pun intended.
I love sound design 👌🏽
Looks like a good movie
The movie looks great
Asmr in another level
I think they should make a permanent category for sound design. Apparently there is something similar, but they only assign it occasionally
The Academy Awards use to have separate categories for Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing. The two categories were combined into Best Sound staring at the 93rd Academy Awards.
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!
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
Great movie! It was hard for me to watch this movie!
I never realized how ingenious they were, I thought they built it all thru high end audio engines
Fantastic guest, thank you.
Wow! ❤
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
Seems like the most funny Job in the production
best of 2022
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
1:41 Guess we all know what that "somehow" was 😂
This job would be so cool, too bad I don't have any opportunities stuck here in Michigan.
The cup/glass expands as the boiling water fills it. So the acoustics of the cup/glass changes.
Hmmmmmm...I wonder how they stumbled upon the sound that makes when you squeeze medical silicon 🤔
All I remember is the wailing
Of course German deadmau5 is a sound designer
what is the little mic
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Correct me if I'm wrong but why not simply use the real sounds that happened during the filming of the scenes?
3:22 Diógenes?
THIS is wjhy sound is very important to make a movie & or film.
Sound is 50% of the film
Hmmm, wonder how someone figured out how squeezing silicone made noise…
I used tenga eggs and kades the same sound
Bruh
I would love to be a foley artist!
This is how I found out they have or are.....
REMAKING THIS MOVIE!?!?!?!?!? 🤯🤯🤯
I don't get it, all sounds must be recreated?
Hmm I wonder who squeezed the silicone first haha
Sometimes I wonder if they wouldn't be easier off just using the actual sounds though... 😅
When ASMR becomes PTSD
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. ua-cam.com/video/r60FRUHacX4/v-deo.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.
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.
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.
bis bald
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.
Jacob Collier would love to see (hear) this I assume 😊
Instead of an Dnb and EDM artist i should become a sound designer, this looks sooo interesting
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 :)
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