- HOW BEN BURTT CREATED THE LIGHTSABER SOUND EFFECT MOVIE
- HOW BEN BURTT CREATED THE LIGHTSABER SOUND EFFECT SERIES
Lucas’s script was littered with sound moments, from the seemingly straightforward (“an explosion rocks the ship”) to the more perplexing (“the little dwarf robot makes a series of electronic sounds that only another robot could understand”), which Burtt set out to track. The brief that George Lucas gave Ben Burtt was to leave aside the slick sounds that science fiction movies were typically known for, and instead create audio that would lend realism to his epic space opera. With the principal ingredient of the final sound being that of the mournful whine of a young cinnamon bear at a ranch in Tehachapi, he created the sound for Chewbacca by blending dog, lion, seal, walrus, tiger, camel, and badger sounds. Burtt was contacted and enlisted to find the sounds for Chewbacca. When George Lucas began work on what would eventually become Star Wars, Walter Murch, who’d created sounds for THX 1138 and American Graffiti, was contacted but was unavailable. In order to earn some extra money, he took a job as a sound editor, working on trailers and Roger Corman’s Death Race 2000, and became known for his skills in the sound department. School of Cinematic Arts on scholarship, with aspirations of becoming a filmmaker. Eventually his fascination with cinema and sound led him to attend the U.S.C.
HOW BEN BURTT CREATED THE LIGHTSABER SOUND EFFECT MOVIE
When he realized that recording in a movie theater picked up too much unwanted background noise, he switched to the drive-in, rigging his recorder and microphone into the speaker. Westerns and sci-fi were his favourite movies.
Playing these recordings back was his way of re-experiencing his favorite movies. Early LifeĪs a child growing up in New York, Ben Burtt recorded sounds off the television set.
All of these are sound designer Ben Burtt’s historic contributions to Star Wars. The other sounds that created a soundscape for the movie was the deep breathing of Darth Vader, and the electronic voice of R2-D2. The hum of the lightsaber in the classic Star Wars movie is so iconic that kids play-fighting with their pretend ones make sure that they make the sound too.
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