by azureeyes » Sun Mar 07, 2021 3:25 pm
lbh wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 6:59 pm
I think that when a character gets down around a foot, their voices should sound higher, 6 inches be very sqeaky even to themselves, below 2 inches they should be barely audiable below that normal people should only hear them as a tiny whine and even the shrunken should find their voices don't carry very far.----On a related note, I find the one thing that takes me out of a shrunken character film or show is the sound design. There was a "Sports Illustrated" ad some years back with a 2 foot woman sitting in a lawn chair, the shot looked great but when she pulled a subscription card out of the over sized magazine and threw it to the floor, it sounded like a piece of plywood hitting a sound stage floor. I think sound should be the same as you would hear normally but just more intense for the shrunken. Any thoughts?
This actually intrigued me because it makes sense, but then it doesn't because while ear size changes, the shape doesn't.
So I did a little research and sound and volume are determined by ear shape, not necessarily size. However, with the pinnae being smaller, the sound waves would be affected, and the SW may not be able to recognize where a sound is coming from for a short period of time, until the brain reorganizes how it gets audible input and adjusts.
So, I'm not sure they would be louder, but the SW would definitely be disoriented by sounds for a period of time.
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I think that when a character gets down around a foot, their voices should sound higher, 6 inches be very sqeaky even to themselves, below 2 inches they should be barely audiable below that normal people should only hear them as a tiny whine and even the shrunken should find their voices don't carry very far.----On a related note, I find the one thing that takes me out of a shrunken character film or show is the sound design. There was a "Sports Illustrated" ad some years back with a 2 foot woman sitting in a lawn chair, the shot looked great but when she pulled a subscription card out of the over sized magazine and threw it to the floor, it sounded like a piece of plywood hitting a sound stage floor. I think sound should be the same as you would hear normally but just more intense for the shrunken. Any thoughts?
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This actually intrigued me because it makes sense, but then it doesn't because while ear size changes, the shape doesn't.
So I did a little research and sound and volume are determined by ear shape, not necessarily size. However, with the pinnae being smaller, the sound waves would be affected, and the SW may not be able to recognize where a sound is coming from for a short period of time, until the brain reorganizes how it gets audible input and adjusts.
So, I'm not sure they would be louder, but the SW would definitely be disoriented by sounds for a period of time.