Cinematic Sound Design for Filmmaking | Full Tutorial

cinematic sound design premiere pro- This is a step by step breakdown of how to utilize sound design in your documentary, film trailers and filmmaking. In this video I go over my entire sound design process, From the concept, how I find my sounds, to crafting original sound design for specific scenes. This is great for filmmakers looking to get an intro to sound design and start using it effectively to enhance your video editing.
Content of this video
00:00- Intro
01:46- Categories of Sound design
02:52- How to organize your sounds and what sites I use
04:48- Take notes and come up with ideas
10:38- How I Sound designed this video
17:10- How and when to use a lowpass filter
21:36-How and when to use a pitch shifter
Categories
The first one we’re going to talk about is foley or practical sound design and these are elements like shoes walking or a car engine starting and a lot of time in film all of these sounds are re-created in a studio or a sound stage.
Next we have atmospheric sound design which is used to help give you an idea of the environment that you're in and this could be something like a city street or even just a light room tone hum.
After that now we’re getting into the more creative aspects of sound design.
Elements like risers, whooshes, hits and sound beds are all aspects of sound design that give your film character, and if done correctly could absolutely submerse your audience into your story.
Now music is not considered sound design but I definitely consider music in my sound designing process because music plays a huge role in telling you how much or how little sound design will play a role in your edit but I’ll get into that later in the tutorial.
INTO THE PROJECT
Now that we covered the basics I want to show you guys how I organize my files and set my project up so I don’t get lost in all these different audio tracks.
The first thing I do is organize all my sounds in bins so I know where everything is and I know where to grab them when I need to.
Then as I’m bringing sounds into my timeline I make sure to color code them by category so I have a good idea of what sound is doing what just by looking at it.
WATCH AND ASSES THE PROJECT.
Now that I broke down the organization for the sound design my first step in this process is watch the film and as it's playing take notes of possible sound design that I could add.
Like I said before a lot of sound design decisions are made based on what the music is doing. As I watch I know that there are certain sections I’m going to want to let the music breath and sections i’ll want to highlight the sound design.

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[@Alexzarfatifilms]

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[@Alexzarfatifilms]

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[@StevieTheWanderer]

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[@sebastien.jubinville]

Once again, I’ve just realized that I have sooooo much to learn!! Great stuff once again brother 🎶

[@Alexzarfatifilms]

Thank you man your too kind. Sound design has become such a big part of my editing process

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Hey Alex, it was really an Indepth tutorial. Thanks!

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Liked, Subbed and I only watched the intro so far

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INSANE BREAKDOWN!!!!

[@Alexzarfatifilms]

Thanks man❤️

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[@Alexzarfatifilms]

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[@Alexzarfatifilms]

Thank you and will do brother 🙌🏻

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[@Alexzarfatifilms]

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Awesome glad to hear that.

[@DisneyGuitaress]

This video needs more views. Your channel is sooooo underrated!!! Keep up the amazing work!!! ☺️👏🏻👏🏻 P.S. Do you know of any courses that teach cinematic editing & storytelling with sound design, transitions and color grading (for short 1-2 min travel videos, etc.)? / Do you have any tips for learning it?

[@Alexzarfatifilms]

Hey thanks for the kind words. Unfortunately I don’t know of any courses mostly what I do is just watch films or other cinematic travel videos that I like and take bits and pieces from everything that I watch and try to incorporate it into my editing.

[@Alexzarfatifilms]

I am actually in the process of putting together a course for documentaries filmmaking and travel filmmaking. When it’s out I will let you know until then feel free to ask me any questions and I will do my very best to answer them!

[@DisneyGuitaress]

@@Alexzarfatifilms That sounds great!! I guess the main things I’m uncertain about is how to know which transitions and sound design effects to use to build a story. I also have no idea how to color grade, but they have videos on that on KZbin. It would be nice to have a step-by-step guide on how to make a cinematic travel video and also be given the same unedited video clips to be able to re-create it. We learn best by doing, right!

[@Alexzarfatifilms]

@@DisneyGuitaress Thats a really good point, maybe somewhere in the near future I'll put something together that does that.

[@stephanez]

This man is really smart

[@Alexzarfatifilms]

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[@laclairstevenson1564]

Yeah same... other sound design videos don't break down the way you did bro. Thx

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Can this be a series? 🙏

[@Alexzarfatifilms]

Yes we have another one coming out on Tuesday

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[@RichardBoyer]

You have a movie you can work with but if you don't have any clip or trailer what do you do

[@Alexzarfatifilms]

If you don’t try using stock footage, a lot of stock footage sites are pretty cheap these days

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Where do you get your Sounds from?

[@Alexzarfatifilms]

All over the place, but mostly artlist

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Which one are you talking about?

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