The Sound Design of Overwatch! Part 1 - Behind the Screen

This is Behind the Screen, where we look at media and see how it was made and why it was made the way it was.

In this new four part series, we go Behind the Screen to look at the sound design of video games using Blizzard's newest game, Overwatch, as our lens! This episode, we lay the foundation for the rest by talking about the fundamentals of sound design and how video games have special requirements from TV and Cinema.

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[feldspar]

Left 4 Dead did sound design really well.

[firstnameandlastnameples]

I dont mean to be 'that guy', but the podium guy is from Extra Credits. Might be a good idea to change that? It's a really nice video, but you might get shit from some people for using Dan on the podium with red instead of green.. Kinda looks like stealing.

[PK]

Ah, great- a fully immersive, surround-sound Bee Movie. ;P

No, but seriously, I enjoyed this video a lot. The Extra Credits format is great by itself, and it's very entertaining to hear somebody who obviously knows a lot about a topic break it down. This was great. :)

[stan]

This was great. I can understand why you used EC's style, but a well-explained video by someone who knows what they're talking about will be great, no matter the format.

[mestre]

Extra credits is a great show. I also there spin off extra history. You should try to do a colab with them.

[GhostXb]

Nice, I'm actually dabbling in sound design myself.

[VictoriaKhaze]

so much better than friday night dice, more organized. good job bro!

[Animenite]

We do have input in video: our perspective. Because of our perspective videos will be, to some extent, different to everyone.