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It's interesting that the vast majority of us would have seen all those films and never noticed... I get the feeling that now every time I watch a recent movie

It's interesting that the vast majority of us would have seen all those films and never noticed... I get the feeling that now every time I watch a recent movie I'm going to be thinking of this post.

sp332 17y ago
Yeah, it's even worse than the Wilhelm Scream: http://revision3.com/filmriot/btsdslr#seek=286 http://revision3.com/filmriot/btsdslr#seek=286 (text description if you can't see the video: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream)
- aarongough 17y ago
  Great find! I know that there is one other scream that I hear constantly in movies but I have no idea if it has a name... I'll have to make sure to keep an ear out for it!
  - theblackbox 17y ago
    There is a really annoying one that used to haunt me when being forced to enjoy watching football (soccer) with my dad: ALL video replays had the exact same audio on it. It really used to grate on me as it was really obvious once you had got used to it, but my dad could never hear it. Just a little anecdotal evidence of my experience on this fascinating subject. Perception, attention and information are very interesting facets of psychology!
- Vindexus 17y ago
  Thanks for that! Do you have any idea what scream this is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3WimCPUkQY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3WimCPUkQY It's from the Terran Academy in StarCraft, and I've heard it in other places but don't know the name of it.
  - cakesy 17y ago
    Yes, no doubt this guy is an expert in screams, teaches the Screams PHD course at MIT, and has analysed and manipulated every single scream produced by all forms of entertainment over the last 50 years.
  - spatulon 17y ago
    It appears to be called the "Youraagh" scream. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf6_hok4-lo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf6_hok4-lo
- jcw 17y ago
  There's also that child laughing sound clip that's used everywhere, is there a name for it?
a-priori 17y ago
This is a result of the colour constancy effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_constancy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_constancy
potatolicious 17y ago
As a photographer, this post is way full of crap - look at famous photographs, and you will see the exact same thing even before the days of Photoshop. These colors are used because they work, and they project a certain effect on your images. Blaming this on the advent of computers is disingenuous - photographers have been shooting at Golden Hour for generations to capture the contrasty orangeness since God knows when.
- cool-RR 17y ago
  He said that computers have caused this in movies, because now every frame can be manipulated separately.
  - potatolicious 17y ago
    Right, but I fail to see how a valid artistic theme in photography suddenly becomes lazy me-too-ism when applied to film. Art goes through phases - maybe there was that guy back during the Renaissance complaining about how all the sculptures looked the same, etc etc. This is simply the way art goes.
    - gabrielroth 17y ago
      Sometimes technology makes it easier to do something, and then people do that thing more than they did before, to the point where they're doing it too much. It's like AutoTune in music: people have always tried to sing in tune, but now they can sing even more in tune, and so current pop music has almost lost the naturalism and emotional effects produced by subtle variance in pitch.
      - potatolicious 17y ago
        Isn't that simply a matter of aesthetics though? I don't much like autotune either, but I'm willing to admit the possibility that it's simply because I grew up listening to a different aesthetic. We've certainly lost a lot of aesthetics as art styles changed over time - when's the last time you saw a good tapestry? I don't see this as particularly bad, though, it's simply "the way it is" in art. Periodically we will exchange one thing for another, and life goes on.
StudyAnimal 17y ago
I noticed, and disliked it, and it turned me into an anti-color-grading fanatic. However I assumed it was due to trying to make movies on blu-ray look more movie-like by limiting their colors to the colors they are used to seeing on dvd as opposed to the realistic colors people see on modern HD camcorders, that might make movies look home-made or amateur.

It's interesting that the vast majority of us would have seen all those films and never noticed... I get the feeling that now every time I watch a recent movie I'm going to be thinking of this post.

sp332 17y ago

Yeah, it's even worse than the Wilhelm Scream: http://revision3.com/filmriot/btsdslr#seek=286 http://revision3.com/filmriot/btsdslr#seek=286 (text description if you can't see the video: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream)

aarongough 17y ago
Great find! I know that there is one other scream that I hear constantly in movies but I have no idea if it has a name... I'll have to make sure to keep an ear out for it!
- theblackbox 17y ago
  There is a really annoying one that used to haunt me when being forced to enjoy watching football (soccer) with my dad: ALL video replays had the exact same audio on it. It really used to grate on me as it was really obvious once you had got used to it, but my dad could never hear it. Just a little anecdotal evidence of my experience on this fascinating subject. Perception, attention and information are very interesting facets of psychology!
Vindexus 17y ago
Thanks for that! Do you have any idea what scream this is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3WimCPUkQY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3WimCPUkQY It's from the Terran Academy in StarCraft, and I've heard it in other places but don't know the name of it.
- cakesy 17y ago
  Yes, no doubt this guy is an expert in screams, teaches the Screams PHD course at MIT, and has analysed and manipulated every single scream produced by all forms of entertainment over the last 50 years.
- spatulon 17y ago
  It appears to be called the "Youraagh" scream. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf6_hok4-lo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf6_hok4-lo
jcw 17y ago
There's also that child laughing sound clip that's used everywhere, is there a name for it?

a-priori 17y ago

This is a result of the colour constancy effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_constancy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_constancy

potatolicious 17y ago

As a photographer, this post is way full of crap - look at famous photographs, and you will see the exact same thing even before the days of Photoshop. These colors are used because they work, and they project a certain effect on your images. Blaming this on the advent of computers is disingenuous - photographers have been shooting at Golden Hour for generations to capture the contrasty orangeness since God knows when.

cool-RR 17y ago
He said that computers have caused this in movies, because now every frame can be manipulated separately.
- potatolicious 17y ago
  Right, but I fail to see how a valid artistic theme in photography suddenly becomes lazy me-too-ism when applied to film. Art goes through phases - maybe there was that guy back during the Renaissance complaining about how all the sculptures looked the same, etc etc. This is simply the way art goes.
  - gabrielroth 17y ago
    Sometimes technology makes it easier to do something, and then people do that thing more than they did before, to the point where they're doing it too much. It's like AutoTune in music: people have always tried to sing in tune, but now they can sing even more in tune, and so current pop music has almost lost the naturalism and emotional effects produced by subtle variance in pitch.
    - potatolicious 17y ago
      Isn't that simply a matter of aesthetics though? I don't much like autotune either, but I'm willing to admit the possibility that it's simply because I grew up listening to a different aesthetic. We've certainly lost a lot of aesthetics as art styles changed over time - when's the last time you saw a good tapestry? I don't see this as particularly bad, though, it's simply "the way it is" in art. Periodically we will exchange one thing for another, and life goes on.

StudyAnimal 17y ago

I noticed, and disliked it, and it turned me into an anti-color-grading fanatic. However I assumed it was due to trying to make movies on blu-ray look more movie-like by limiting their colors to the colors they are used to seeing on dvd as opposed to the realistic colors people see on modern HD camcorders, that might make movies look home-made or amateur.