Create Crazy Sound Effects With Household Objects
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A friend of mine forwarded me an email with a pretty cool guide for home-made sound effects:
http://www.epicsound.com/sfx/
Sound designer David Filskov posts an interesting list of tricks he’s collected from other designers for turning common objects into audio trickery. It seems like a stretch, until you realize that movie soundtracks are rarely recorded from the source—often because doing so would be dangerous, impractical, or wouldn’t sound believable.
The sound of people walking on snow? It’s made by recording people in the studio walking on flour or cornstarch. If you live in a cold, snowy climate, you know how rare that perfectly crunchy and squeaky snow is. The sound of a naval depth charge? A toilet flushing at half speed, with a reverberation filter applied. Alien sounds?
Certain kinds of canned dog food make useful sounds as the food comes out of the can. The chunky stuff isn’t so good, but the tightly packed all-one-mass kind makes gushy sucking sounds when the air on the outside of the can is sucked into the can to replace the exiting glob of dog food. This sound can be used as an element in certain kinds of monster vocalizations, alien pod embryo expulsions, etc.
3 x 10 :: Day 06
- Produce a promotional “profile video” of each AlMaghrib instructor.
- Produce a movie that documents the journey going cross country with Tufaan screening it in every major city in North America.
- Start an education campaign with some organization meant to educate people on zakah and wealth building.
What’s this “3 x 10? thing? – See my post on focusing ideas:
http://www.leechon.com/focus-ideas-847.htm
Jawaad Ahmad Khan Says: 05.03.09 at 11:10 pm
Salaam,
Thanks, I knew that foli sound effects were often used with just regular objects on a sound stage, but that site is definitely a good reference to keep for future productions.
By the way, your list of ideas is growing rapidly, and I like it a lot.
Just seeing productivity happen inspires others to become more productive.
Waslaam.
egyptian gumbo Says: 06.03.09 at 1:31 am
I like the idea of making promotional profiles for instructors…. hmm Bayyinah likes..
I may have to use something like that soon for our new instructor
AbooZaid Says: 12.03.09 at 11:47 am
Belal,
I’ve been following your idea thread and wondered if you could reflect a bit. How have you found the experience? Do you find the ideas came easy on some days and other days you had to really force your mind to crank? Has it taken a lot of discipline to force in your schedule or has it been natural?
AlBaraa Says: 14.03.09 at 5:13 pm
The flowing of ideas for me personally, is like breathing. I’ve developed a habit to write all my nice ideas down. I get quite a few every day and have a folder in my filing cabinet where I dump them all. What I’ve found difficult is keeping the discipline of posting them on the blog here.
SaqibSaab Says: 25.03.09 at 2:36 pm
My favorite instance of this is the foley used to create the effect of Luke Skywalker jumping off of Jabba The Hut’s ship on Naboo in Star Wars Episode XI: Return of the Jedi. To simulate the “wooden platform jump,” Star Wars’ editor and Skywalker Sound’s sound editing genius Ben Burtt stuck a wooden ruler off the edge of his table, hit record, and gave it a good flick. The result? A “realistic” jump off of a pirate ship, lightsaber in hand.