KOCHI:
Understanding the human behaviour and unlearning are the key components for a sound designer to create impactful sound designs, said Oscar winning sound designer Padma Shri Resul Pookutty on Saturday.
“While working in the Hindi film “Blue”, I had felt the responsibility of recording the sound in the deep sea to explore how sound is behaving there. It’s all about the impression you create,” Resul stressed in his keynote address on the final day of the three-day Kochi Design Week (KDW), India’s largest design conclave, at Bolgatty Island here.
Citing his experinence in the film “Slumdog Millionaire”, which fetched him Oscar, he said good designs are born from the sights and sounds around us.
“The sounds of cars and other premises like city traffic are different from the past. So, a sound designer can’t rely on his memory to recreate such sounds today. The contradiction a sound designer faces is that tradition tells him memory is everything but technology says he doesn’t need it at all,” he said, adding that sound represents time in a visual, which is an abstract space.
Earlier, in his keynote address, Suresh Eriyat, Founder Director, Studio Eeksaurus, said, “There is no dearth of stories around us for creative endeavours like animation and advertising. Stories are everywhere and we have to present them naturally using humour and animation to convey something important. This would relate to the public rather than presenting them with a morose visualization.”
The Mumbai-based ad film maker and animation designer, who was making his first-ever speech in Kerala, has started an incubation venture for students. “I believe that creative things have triggered great movements,” he observed.
The mega event, which concluded on Saturday, witnessed the convergence of as many as 3,000 participants, including design professionals from India and abroad, heads of various companies, architects, interior designers, thought leaders, policymakers and government officials, besides the general public.
