Postproduction, Tip

Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #171

by scrappy Feb 9, 2025

No more secrets.

Here’s a nifty “Emergence” kind of sound: Reverse the first five seconds or so of your sound effect or music, add a little echo to it, then reverse it back. Mix that into the original beginning bit and voila!

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Postproduction, Tip

Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #99

by scrappy Oct 6, 2021

Safer, too.

If you don’t have a Big Giant Machine to film (Big Giant Machines are very expensive props, so no one will blame you if you can’t get one), film people complaining about the sound of the Big Giant Machine just off-screen and then add the sound in post.

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