Tricks in Making Sound

We got a last class with nice effects about the sound in film. I’m interested in the sound in film and appreciate what it will help us in our work. A film with clear sound can make your heart feel more than the silent one. I have searched on the Net and found out some tricks that may help you with your project if you intend to record sound yourself.

Below are just 2 popular sounds that you may encounter and here you know some ways expert did to make them. You may come up with new ways to do better but first take a look at how they do to have experience.

Body and face hits

Rolled up newspapers being hit with a (soft wooden) stick are meant to be good for body and face hits.
Paul Arnold
Gordon Hall

Hitting real meat, use a baseball bat to hit leather jacket wrapped around baseball gloves, add breaking of chicken bones.
Ben Burtt

A regular old bull whip crack is good for those over-the-top Street Fighter type punches. Don Diekneite

I've used the newspaper rolled up approach in the past and it's hard to get a satisfying sound out of it. One of my favorites is wet mud, jump up and down, hit it with a bat, add some foliage for extra texture. Rotten fruit is always good for flesh squishes. The other day I was blending some carrots with a hand blender which created a wonderful consistency, simply pulling out the blender made some lovely squish noises.
Paul Weir

Heartbeat

In my sound effects research of the old radio days, I understand that to create heartbeats, they placed the arm of a record player on a towel or other kind of soft fabric - with the needle actually touching the cloth. Light taps on the fabric translated as low-end thumps when amplified through the record player. The "heartbeats" could then be performed as needed. I don't know how "good" they sounded, but it's certainly one method.
Steve Lee

A buddy of mine created a very nice heartbeat using a large plastic trash can. The plastic popping in and out was very controllable and created two distinct in/out "pumping" sounds.
Bob Kessler

Take a piece of fabric and hold it with a loose grip. Then quickly stretch the fabric for a pounding, heartlike sound.
David Filskov

Bare your chest (!), position a microphone pointing at your shoulder region and then make a quick inward pull with your arms and hands and stop abruptly. Keeps you warm as well :)

David Filskov

Any kind of thump run through a lowpass filter sequenced in a reasonably rhythmic sequence will give you the effect. It might be fun to throw in some "flushing blood" kind of liquid.
Jamey Scott

Anyone try contact mics on a pulse point? This might work well if you also employ a BP cuff (don't try it on the one in your neck :)

David Steinwedel

I double the heartbeat with a kick drum. Filter anything below 60Hz, add an insane amount of mid frequency.
Jerome Boiteau

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