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Don’t Neglect That Audio Track, Amateurs

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Shame on us. We’ve been so focused on the video and music, we forgot about the sound effects. Did you know:

  • Animals are never ever silent- dogs whine/bark/yip, cats meow or purr, cows moo, even in cases where most animals wouldn’t be making a sound.
  • All bicycles have bells (that sounds). Car tires “always” screech on dirt roads.
  • Text being spelled out on screen (whether computer or lower third) MUST make some sort of typing and/or dot-matrix-printer type of sound.
  • When a character pulls out a knife, even from his pants, you hear a sound of metal brushing metal

Read more film sound cliches at FilmSound.org.

Click here to download the Wilhelm Scream. Send me the URL when you work it into your short amateur video.

One thought on “Don’t Neglect That Audio Track, Amateurs”

  1. Wait… are you saying we SHOULD do that, or that we’re being dumb if we do that? I couldn’t tell. This is timely to me, as I spent the earlier part of the morning filming myself brushing my teeth and the like, without sound. I was thinking, maybe I should make my own sound effects.

    Should I be cliche or no?

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