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I'm going to imaging some cracking ands popping as bones change and the body forms, yet I just don't want to imagine it. Yes, a werewolf is going to create sounds during a shift, whether it be the changing or their mouning if they're new, but please, lets not put too much in Freeborn.
I would expect hair to make a soft rustle but thats it.
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What about the body sounding like someone ripping a chicken in half?outwarddoodles wrote:I'm going to imaging some cracking ands popping as bones change and the body forms, yet I just don't want to imagine it. Yes, a werewolf is going to create sounds during a shift, whether it be the changing or their mouning if they're new, but please, lets not put too much in Freeborn.
I would expect hair to make a soft rustle but thats it.
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I can snap and crackle in real life, and often do when I'm yawning and stretching. (So far, no one has made the connection between it and my lycanthropy obsession, even though I'm not intentionally mimicing shape-shifting.) I've pictured in my mind a similar phenomenon in the real thing, but nothing over-the-top.
It should not be louder than about 20-30 decibels, or the sound level of the quiet fan or kitchen appliance that you notice when it shuts off. Now, the inhuman hollering and screaming, that's going to be up there at least in the 80s or 90s, and will drown out any other sound, except, ironically, to the shifter himself, and the lady who bit him.
It should not be louder than about 20-30 decibels, or the sound level of the quiet fan or kitchen appliance that you notice when it shuts off. Now, the inhuman hollering and screaming, that's going to be up there at least in the 80s or 90s, and will drown out any other sound, except, ironically, to the shifter himself, and the lady who bit him.
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No, but I was pointing at the sound.Apokryltaros wrote:Actually, I'd prefer not to switch from outside to inside of the werewolf's ribcage when the werewolf transforms.
Scott Gardener wrote: I'd be afraid to shift if I were to lose control. If I just looked fuggly, I'd simply be annoyed every full moon.
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I always imaged the loudest sound to, indeed, come from the skull. I think that it may also be one of the sounds that happens mid-way through TF. As the snout begins to form, it might happen in short bursts as the bone gives way to the new tissue. Any solid material such as bone wont shift smoothly and continuously. Like earthquakes, two plates have to build up pressure before sliding. Each burst of growth from the muzzle area would inevitably sound like a stick smaking on a wet, mushy and hollow log so hard that a muffled crack can echo across the walls of a room. So yes, this may be the most violent part of a TF, both in how it feels, looks, and... sounds.
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I belive that the movie AWWIL was right on the money with the sound FX of all the popping and cracking. Ohhhh how i love that transformation.
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I think sound is required.
I agree that some of the eighties movies overdid some of the, as Figarou puts it, "Toilet bowl flushes." But, the sound is part of the horror of transformation. All is lost on me for transformations of the old 50's movies. The lap dissolve method where a guy just holds still while the film dissolves from one section of film to the next. Yeah, not horrorific and not really doin' it for me.
Although, as a child of the seventies and eighties versus the fifties, I cannot be horrorfied by the old creature features or Universal monster flicks. I can testify to the true fear that my parents recall having seen these movies. Today, we would laugh and mock.
I agree that some of the eighties movies overdid some of the, as Figarou puts it, "Toilet bowl flushes." But, the sound is part of the horror of transformation. All is lost on me for transformations of the old 50's movies. The lap dissolve method where a guy just holds still while the film dissolves from one section of film to the next. Yeah, not horrorific and not really doin' it for me.
Although, as a child of the seventies and eighties versus the fifties, I cannot be horrorfied by the old creature features or Universal monster flicks. I can testify to the true fear that my parents recall having seen these movies. Today, we would laugh and mock.
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Well, usually we pay more attention to images... but the sound is an important part of any performance (ok, not for mimic). Even being something artificial, the cracking and moving sounds from the older movies were, in many cases, the best of the transformation scene. And for most of the werewolf film-fans they are definitely associated with the change.
About the music, it should be not too hard or loud... or best of all, perhaps it would go fantastic with no music at all.
About the music, it should be not too hard or loud... or best of all, perhaps it would go fantastic with no music at all.
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That'll work in a close up shot. I just hope its not overdone. (Being to noisy.)Syzygy wrote:There should be sounds like someone's back being thoroughly clicked. Lots of popping and dislocating of joints. The hair should make a quiet rustle and possibly also (I don't know how to really describe it) the sound you hear when someone tears a muscle severely.
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That sounds good to me. Maybe a small groan only once though otherwise it goes over the top and into the deep end. I know it has nothing to do with sound but a few tears would look interesting too.Scott Gardener wrote: It should not be louder than about 20-30 decibels, or the sound level of the quiet fan or kitchen appliance that you notice when it shuts off. Now, the inhuman hollering and screaming, that's going to be up there at least in the 80s or 90s, and will drown out any other sound, except, ironically, to the shifter himself, and the lady who bit him.
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