Hello my name is Justin Harrell Jones and I am a foley and sound designer who is looking for feedback on some of my foley and sound design and to network unfortunately there is no section for foley or sound design so this is the next best section. I have included a link to my website below with some sound examples. I look forward to chatting with you.
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It's nice to meet you Justin. Thanks for sharing your reel here.
I can't tag him but Kevin Gamble, any thoughts?Speaking as a composer who works with sound designers and has sat and watched them work for hours, I can weigh in a little bit but I'm no expert. Firstly, you've made a good start there, so well done! The sounds you've made are strong so that's a fantastic beginning.
Secondly, I wonder if it'd be worth spending a bit of time on refining your sound design skills. The sounds aren't very clean (e.g. the low end rumble on the heart rate monitor) and the helicopter sound could definitely use some work for realism. Some of the others are very nice, but they're also very stylised. Whilst there's definitely a place for stylised sound design in film, it's generally not as common as good, every day sound design. Non-stylised sound makes up 95% of a film, even something like a Marvel movie (for example footsteps, knives and forks on a plate, the clink of metal weapons hitting), and that really refined stuff is used sparingly (in my experience anyway!) So it's worth having good "normal" sounds in your arsenal too.
Thirdly, it'd be good to hear a wider range of sounds. Your ocean and underwater sounds are very similar, your huge storm one (which has lovely panning!) is also in a similar vein. It'd be good to get some other stuff in there showing a wider range of your skills (convincing footsteps seems to be a common bugbear across sound designers, for example!)
Hope that helps a bit.
Its nice to meet you too. Thanks for the feedback.
Welcome to the Composer Lounge. I am also a Sound Designer as well so you have come to the right place.