The document discusses sound design techniques used in the game Wolfenstein: The New Order. It analyzes three sections of a cutscene: 1) an aircraft setting with propeller sounds, 2) a park setting with children laughing and a dog barking, and 3) a return to the aircraft setting. For the propeller sounds, directional and ambient microphones were likely used. Children's laughter and dog barking were probably recorded separately for isolation, while barbecue sounds used directional recording with no echo. Mood shifts from bleak to calmer back to bleak, set by electronically produced or live orchestra music. The sounds initially suggest a war game but children's laughter causes confusion. Recording techniques included directional micro

1. Salford City College
Eccles Sixth Form Centre
BTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGN
Unit 73: Sound For Computer Games
Game Title Wolfenstien: The New Order https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5S4VdTKyzU
Provide detailed descriptions from chosen examples that
establish…
Clearly state what production technique(s) you think have
been used to create specific soundtrack elements
Setting ? The first section of the cutscene,
sounds like the scene is set in
somewhat of an aircraft as you
can hear a propeller as well as
other aircraft going past.
? After that there seems to be a
jump cut to a garden or a park I
think this because I can hear
laughter of kids and I can also
hear barking of a dog or dogs and
also I can hear the sizzling of a
barbecue
? In the last section of the cutscene
the sudden laughter of children
changes and goes into again a roar
of an engine of an aircraft.
? I believe that to create the aircraft
propellor sounds for the aircraft, the
person recording it would of used both
ambient directional sound recorders to get
a feel for the environmental sounds around
the propeller and with the directional
recorder that would of given a more
focused audio on the propeller.
? To create the sounds of the children
laughing, the dog barking and the sizzling
of the barbecue, I believe that the laughing
from the children and the barking from the
dog would have been produced in a
isolated area as there is a little echo on
their voices however for the barbecue I
think it was produced by using a
directional sound as there is no echo on
the sound and no background sounds.
Mood ? The mood in the beginning section
starts of by giving the sense of
being tired, in a dream or a sense
of a bleak personality
? I believe the music in the background has
been made electronically via the use of a
sound engineering software however the
sound could also be created by the use of a

2. Salford City College
Eccles Sixth Form Centre
BTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGN
Unit 73: Sound For Computer Games
? However with the background
music makes the mood seem a lot
more calmer than the begging
scene then in the end of the scene
goes back into being bleak.
live orchestra the instrument0s that could
have been used could be a violin or a
piano.
Game genre • From the start the viewer can instantly tell
that it is a war game as the sounds from
the aircraft however when the laughter
from the children comes it makes the
viewer wonder if it is actually a war game
or an adventure game.
• The propellers will have been recorded
through the use of a directional and
ambient microphones
• the children would have been recorded in
a isolated place to give it more echo on
their voices.
Narrative • From the beginning the viewer can hear a
person speaking sounding like they are in
a trance, but the protagonist starts to talk
about his dream he is having about himself
in a garden
• I believe that this was created in a sound
proof room where no background noise
can be picked up.