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BSW - CAA - Sound Design Artist Research

Sound Design Artist Research - Alien : Covenant

Oliver Tarney is a sound designer that worked on the film 'Alien : Covenant'. Oliver also worked on many films to do with space before including 'The Martian' where the project of 'Alien : Covenant' was first discussed.

For the environment for the planet they are on Ridley Scott - director of the film - had requirements that there would be no birds, no animals, nothing. This gave the effect that Scott wanted, complete silence to show the audience that there was no other life then the crew. Oliver said "We then added just enough icy winds, eerie tree creaks, and patter of rain on leaves to offer the plausibility that there could still be something tracking them as they venture further away from the Lander."

For the sounds of the Xenomorph, they wanted to have sounds that more represent power and presence. Unlike the before films where the Alien was more stealthy so it had more of a hissing sound. This is due to the increase in screen time in this film. They did really like that hiss of the alien so they used it again by emulating many liquid sounds, heavily processing them, then blending them together to get the final sound.

Oliver said "Sounds such as the hiss of komodo dragons and the hoarse screech of vultures were a great starting point for the seething characteristic, but blending them with dry ice, deep metal stresses, and sword scrapes in the Kyma gave it a little more individual identity and lent the sound that slight metallic element that seems to work for the physicality of the Xeno."

Other sound they used for the new creatures in the film were made with mantis shrimps, dolphins, air bubbling through mud, bears breathing, foxes, baboons, baby elephants...

A lot of detail and thought went into these films and you can really appreciate the creativity that the sound designers had to have with the little reference and guidance they had to work with.

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