Eric Heikkinen

A few years ago I fell in love the the HBO television miniseries “Band of Brothers”. At the same time I happened to also fall in love with the video game “Call of Duty”. My two loves collided when I was asked to come up with a scene from a movie or television that I would have to remake the audio for a class project. Right away I knew that I wanted to try a scene from “Band of Brothers” because the movie had a lot of intense scenes with a lot of great sounds that I could try to recreate. Our school offered a sound library for us to use, but the collection of gunshots and tank fire just didn’t cut it. So I decided to try to recreate the soundtrack for the scene using only sounds from the video game audio library for “Call of Duty”. The end result is something I’m really proud of seeing that I was working with such a limited library and had no access to actors for ADR (Automatic Dialog Replacement). Video on the jump.

Almost all of the sound effects are from the Call of Duty audio files, the only exception being the sound of leaves rustling and the clang of an iron for the slow motion segment. It’s amazing how many audio files are included with a video game, especially a game three years ago. I hope this might inspire someone else to try to recreate some of their favorite television or movie scenes using a similar method.