What is Sound Design?
Sound design is everything you hear that is not dialogue. Score, effects, foley, mix and the mastering that makes it all sit right on a phone speaker and on a cinema system. It is the fastest way to make a good picture feel cheap, because stock music under strong visuals reads immediately as a corner cut. We compose and mix in house, alongside the edit rather than after it, so the cut and the score are shaped to each other.
Sound Design is one of the disciplines under Rich Media.
Who needs Sound Design?
You have a trailer or an explainer coming and the plan is to license a track and hope. Or your last video felt flat and nobody on the team could say exactly why. If tone matters, and it usually does at a launch, this is the cheapest single thing that changes how a whole piece lands. Not needed if you are producing muted social cutdowns and nothing else.
What we make with Sound Design
Everything we score and mix.
Crowdfunding Video
The hero film for your campaign, built to hook people in five seconds and carry them to the pledge button.
How-To-Play Video
Teaches the rules quickly, so buyers feel confident and your inbox stays quiet.
Explainer Video
Makes a complicated product make sense in about ninety seconds.
Sizzle Reel
Thirty seconds that show who you are, for trade shows, investors and launches.
Logo Animation / Brand Sting
A short mark animation to open every video and sign off every reel.
TV / Streaming Spot
A broadcast-ready spot that puts your product in front of the right audience.
Audiobook Promo / Sample Reel
A sample that makes people hit play and stay to the end.
Animated Explainer Series
A run of short animations that make hard ideas finally click.
Whiteboard / Motion Lesson
Lessons that hold attention and help people remember what they watched.
Announcement / Reveal Trailer
The first look, built to hook in six seconds and survive being clipped into someone else's video.
Gameplay Trailer & Cutdowns
The one that shows the actual loop, plus every cut and crop the launch needs.
Book Trailer & Audiogram Set
Video and audio clips sized for where books actually get discovered now.
Pour, Sizzle & Texture Film
Slow motion, macro and sound that makes people hungry before they know what it is.
Founder & Origin Story Film
The farm, the roastery, the family recipe. The reason someone picks you over the cheaper one.
Sound Design in the wild
Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG + Unstoppable
Two games, one universe, and one of the largest crowdfunding results tabletop has ever seen.
View case study →Elf Creek Games
A seven-campaign partnership covering the films, the photography, the store and the email behind every launch.
View case study →Bicycle Playing Cards
More than 35 videos, 21 marketing campaigns and a rebuilt how-to-play experience for one of the most recognized names in playing cards.
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