Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!w9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Sergio Sanmiguel Newsgroups: fj.kanji,rec.arts.movies.production.sound Subject: Re: How to produce realistic death-cries??? Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:43:00 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 33 Message-ID: <419d7d5b-53db-4841-9d06-0e4059532612@w9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.254.193.68 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1238197380 14937 127.0.0.1 (27 Mar 2009 23:43:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:43:00 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.254.193.68; posting-account=XffpBAoAAABn1a_ytOMvrIaooXjyjnCp User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/528.16,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.kanji:979 On Mar 27, 6:33=A0pm, Sergio Sanmiguel wrote: > On Mar 27, 6:15=A0pm, Eddy Robinson wrote: > > > On Mar 26, 6:49=A0pm, Harald Gentexeater wrote: > > > > How can I produce realistic death-cries, so that the > > > audience will believe that the victims are eaten alive??? > > > Well, isn't this what actors are paid to do? Give them some throat > > lozenges and just record a whole bunch of screams in some suitable > > location. I've generally found that actors quite like having the > > chance to ham it up like crazy. > > > Now, if you wanted to get extra creative, you could consider visiting > > a zoo and record various animal noises there to mix in...or just rent > > some good nature programs on DVD and sample the soundtrack. Blend in > > some chimpanzees with the human screams and it should be suitably > > spine-tingling. > > Go to your closest ER a saturday night and wait. There's usually some > crying people in real pain coming in. You may want to have a binaural > mic setup mounted on a hat to keep it low key. You can also record > little babies crying and lower the pitch & speed later in your DAW. > Mix them sounds together & you'll get some "realistic death-cries"... > Happy sound fishing! > ~ > SS Option two: Go to the next Local 695 meeting :^( Sorry guys, couldn't resist... S.