Designing Sound

The Art and Technique of Sound Design

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Charles Maynes sent me this video of an scene from Saving Private Ryan (which by the way is one of my favorite scenes in films ever) and asked me if I could hear some cool chicken clucks included in a particular moment of the scene. And he adds:

This would be a great example of Gary Rydstrom doing a Warner Brothers Cartoons homage to Treg Brown, who always tried to never use an appropriate sound in a sequence.

So, let’s play something: Who would be the first one to find the chickens in the video? (I know where the chicken clucks are but… it’s friday! so let’s have some fun).

I can hear those sounds quite clearly, however we can’t confirm that those sounds are true chicken clucks. What do you think?

Thanks to Charles for the link.

9 Responses

  1. Patch Morrison

    7mins 48secs? as he throws the impromptu grenade?

  2. Jean-Edouard Miclot

    4’11 when the tank explodes. Ahaha good job Gary.

  3. Jean-Edouard Miclot

    I’d say there’s also breaking hisses from a train after the chicken clucks.

  4. Robert William-Olsson

    My guess is it’s at 4,07, panning left to right. Never would have noticed that :P

  5. Miguel Isaza

    Oh yes! Congrats, Jean and Robert… You guessed it!

    This could be a pretty cool game for fridays, huh?

  6. JD

    Great game for Fridays Miguel, thank you guys and Charles for posting…never noticed that before! Ha! Crazy. :)

  7. Patch Morrison

    by jove you’re right. I was miles off haha! I think I was listening out for that faint gurlging purr that chickens make. and somehow heard it in that grenade throw.

    I should probably get out more..

  8. tilman

    04:07 – 04:11

    I swear I did not read the comments before :-)
    Nice game….Thank you for sharing!

    Will have to watch the movie agein and absorb all the
    great sound moments!

  9. Ryan

    Okay, who noticed the Rat squeals in the Omaha Beach scene when the German bunker gets torched and the machine-gunners are jumping out the window on fire? I did!

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