Mix Analysis 4: King of the Hill

King of the Hill Season 1 Episode 1: Pilot

Scene 1
0:00-1:00 Hank, Boomhauer, Dale, and Bill Talk about a car.

Time             SFX 1                    SFX 2              Background          Music          Dialogue
0:00                                                                                            Country music
0:03            Tree being cut
0:04                                        Hose being run
0:05       Lawnmower
0:07       Car drives by
0:08    Leaf blower (crunching?)
0:10    Mosquito flies close
0:16   Mosquito flies, quiet
0:20    Slap on skin                                                                    Music outro
0:21    quiet rub on pants
0:22                                                                    suburbs (birds, cars, wind)
0:23   Sip of beer
0:27                                                                                                                     Bill "Yep"
0:29    Cigarette crumble (very quiet)                                                                Dale "Yeah"
0:30    blows smoke away
0:32                                                                                                                     Hank "Yup"
0:34                                                                                                             Boomhauer "Mhm"
0:35  Sip of beer
0:36                                                                                                                     Bill's lines
0:44                                                                                                                      Hank
0:45 sip of beer
0:46                                                                                                             Dale and Hank talk
                                                                                                                   until end of minute

Scene 2
4:20-5:20 At Bobby's baseball game
-18:00
Time             SFX 1                    SFX 2              Background          Music          Dialogue
4:20                                                                   People cheering     Country music
4:23             Hands on chain fence                                                                     Hank yells
4:24         Ball hits glove
4:25                                                                                                                  Boomhauer talks
4:29       Clapping                                                                                            Peggy yelling
4:32                                                                                                                  Hank
4:34      Foley of shoes on dirt                                                                        Hank talks to Bobby
4:50     Bat hits ball                                                                                       Hank yells
4:54    Running (Foley again)
4:56    Glove catches ball
4:57                                                                                                                 Hank sighs
4:58  Whistling
5:00                                                                                                                Hank yells again
5:16  Ball gets hit; whistles past; hits bobby
5:18                                                                      In car                            Bobby sighs, hank talks


Production Mixer: Ronny Cox
Also worked on: The Simpsons, X-Men movies

Sound re-recording engineer: Kenneth R. Burton
Also worked on: Vampire Diaries and Criminal Minds

I chose to do a cartoon because I wanted to examine how cartoons handle sound instead of live action video. It's a good bit different, and reminds me of a combination of game sound design combined with film. This is because the world needs to be built up from scratch, sound and art wise, the people need to be made, their voices need to be chosen, and the sound effects, music, and ambiance is chosen to compliment the setting and actions being taken. This is the first episode of the series, and it came out in 1997, so it shows its age. I think the mixing isn't perfect, but it conveys position and force well enough. Some of the sound effects in the beginning don't match up time with their action that well. These scenes aren't very complicated, and I realize I have a running theme of baseball in my analyses, with this and Arrested Development, but like that show, this is a comedy, so the sound design is a little exaggerated and direct to fit what's supposed to be funny at the time, such as the dialogue or the slapstick comedy. King of the Hill fits the expectation of a comedy cartoon when it comes to sound: minimal and to the point.