Sound Designer ProfileBen Burtt

Jacky WoottonCAA

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Figure 1: Ben Burtt

Born on 12th of July, 1948, Ben Burtt is mainly known for designing sound for in the infamous franchise Star Wars. He created the iconic sound of the lightsabers by mixing the sound from his TV set - tuned between channels with the sound of an old projector.

Ben Burtt’s Work

Figure 2: Star Wars episode 4 A new hope.

He spent 28 years at Lucasfilm before joining Pixar in may 2005 to create sound for Wall.E in 2008, a film that starts of with thirty minutes without dialog, which can help bring out the audio around the characters and location. As of now he is set to create sound for upcoming movie called “Star Wars VII the force awakens”.

Ben Burtt’s Work

Figure 3: Wall.E

Watching movies without sound is like building a jigsaw puzzle with only a quarter of the pieces. Ben’s work is truly fantastic to behold and clearly shows his talent in such films as Wall.E and Star Wars, which adds more to the cinematic experience. He clearly has talent and knows what to create when given visual information. He has also worked on designing creating sound for the new Star Trek films and the Indiana Jones movies so it’s clear he does have the ear for fictional films, which can be difficult as some of the items or location doesn’t exist so they have to create sound that does in reality and editing them so that it would suit the visuals.

Personal view

Figure 4: Indiana Jones

Illustration List:

Figure 1: Ben Burtthttp://www.imdb.com/media/rm384142592/nm0123785?ref_=nmmd_md_pv

Figure 2: Star Wars episode 4 A new hope.http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060528202017/pt.starwars/images/b/be/Kenobivaderanh.jpg

Figure 3: Wall.E http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140429123637/disney/images/8/85/Wall-e.jpg.jpg

Figure 4: Indiana Joneshttp://i.ytimg.com/vi/Pr-8AP0To4k/maxresdefault.jpg