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we've all been doing these tricks for years, but which one is the best?

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Canned dog food can be used for alien pod embryo expulsions and monster vocalizations 7
Frozen romaine lettuce makes bone or head injury noises 7
An arrow or thin stick makes a whoosh 1
Acorns, small apples and walnuts on wooden parquet surface can be used for bones breaking 1
Corn starch in a leather pouch makes the sound of snow crunching 0
A selection of wooden and metal doors is needed to create all sorts of door noises, but also can be used for creaking b 0
Cellophane creates crackling fire effects 0
Coconut shells cut in half and stuffed with padding makes horse hoof noises 0
Gelatin and hand soap make squishing noises 0
¼” audio tape balled up sounds like grass or brush when walked on 0
Burning plastic garbage bags cut into strips makes a realistic sounding candle or soft non-crackling fire when the bag 0
A heavy car door and fender can create most of the car sounds needed 0
A metal rake makes the rattle/squeak sound of chain-link fence (it can also make a metallic screech when dragged across 0
A heavy staple gun combined with other small metal sounds make good gun noises 0
A water-soaked rusty hinge when placed against different surfaces makes a creaking sound. Different surfaces change the 0
An old chair makes a controllable creaking sound 0
A pair of gloves sounds like bird wings flapping 0
A heavy rolled and taped up telephone book makes a good 'body punching' surface 0


Karl Malone, Monday, 17 July 2017 03:32 (seven years ago) link

I've used several of these in my careers, as a desktop publisher, cartoonist, radio program director, jazz trombonist, military cryptologist, and civil servant. Canned dog food gets my vote.

El Tomboto, Monday, 17 July 2017 04:11 (seven years ago) link

My wife

Not sure I've ever those that btw

just started a new job in a post production company and her first week has been essentially room after room of enthusiastic ppl demonstrating this kind of thing for her

jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 17 July 2017 10:12 (seven years ago) link

Broken fingers= carrots btw

Stabbed bodies = cabbages

I wonder do the canteen look ahead to what's coming in do they

jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 17 July 2017 10:14 (seven years ago) link

Of course an arrow makes a whoosh.

how's life, Monday, 17 July 2017 10:17 (seven years ago) link

Punching a slab of meat creates a good beat. We've all been there.

Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 17 July 2017 10:40 (seven years ago) link

I'll never forget the day my grandfather passed the wisdom of his forebears on to me. Some people prefer quick and easy modern shortcuts for producing the sound of an alien pod embryo expulsion, but I believe the old ways are the best.

Dippin' Sauce on my Nice New Slacks (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 July 2017 12:23 (seven years ago) link

slamming a large fish onto a metal table for those kung-fu impacts

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 July 2017 12:26 (seven years ago) link

Impossible to decide among these; they are all classic. But I expected to see "Dragging a duffel bag full of potatoes across a reclaimed barn floor to replicate zombie shuffles."

Needs more zombie content in general tbh.

didgeridon't (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 17 July 2017 12:32 (seven years ago) link

Where is "Folding a belt in half, making a small loop and snapping it together makes a whip crack?"

Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Monday, 17 July 2017 12:35 (seven years ago) link

Not to mention the dying art of armpit flatulence.

didgeridon't (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 17 July 2017 12:41 (seven years ago) link

Needs more zombie content in general tbh

this will never be true of anything ever again

i predict a griot (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 July 2017 12:43 (seven years ago) link

yeah, fucking hell

imago, Monday, 17 July 2017 13:13 (seven years ago) link

I just want to know how to replicate the sound of a moustache brushing across the surface of a crispy bacon strip.

Dippin' Sauce on my Nice New Slacks (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 July 2017 13:21 (seven years ago) link

Starched centipede scraped across mummified child should do it

jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 17 July 2017 13:44 (seven years ago) link

Yes, that's producing exactly the sound I was after, thanks.

Dippin' Sauce on my Nice New Slacks (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 July 2017 13:55 (seven years ago) link

I always crack open a large scab and then seal it back again with a neosporin coated paintbrush, but it only works if you have a large scab ready to go

Karl Malone, Monday, 17 July 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link

dog food because...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_XAEPSeX-c

Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Monday, 17 July 2017 18:10 (seven years ago) link

lettuce head injury

flappy bird, Monday, 17 July 2017 19:02 (seven years ago) link

lettuce head injury

― flappy bird

A is for (Aimless), Monday, 17 July 2017 19:19 (seven years ago) link

😜

flappy bird, Monday, 17 July 2017 20:11 (seven years ago) link

Not sure using a door to make the sound of a door, using an arrow to make the sound of an arrow, or using a car to make the sound of a car are actual "tricks" per se

Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 07:20 (seven years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Friday, 21 July 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Saturday, 22 July 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link


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