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Hello! I'm Buzz Moran. Welcome to our sound effects control room.
It's that time of year for spooky sounds
and we're here with Johansson from "It's Okay to be Smart"
to talk about the science of scary sounds.
Buzz I brought this clip with me of tiny kittens terrorizing a town,
but it's not quite scary enough yet. Think you can give me a hand?
I'll hit the sound effects laboratory.
Okay Joe, I'm in the sound effects laboratory, what do you need?
This helicopter's not helicopter-y enough. What have you got?
Well we've got the table here, I'll use it.
How was that?
Good! We'll give it a whirl. But these kitties attacking the firemen,
we need it to be more bone-crunching.
Celery!
Okay Joe, what's next?
Buzz, I knew you could produce!
I got buildings falling left and right, what can you give me?
Tiny building!
Uh-oh. Junk box!
It's just a cardboard box, full of junk!
Okay we've got the crash but
not the burn. Give me some fire!
Plastic bag!
How's that?
Ooh, that's hot.
Give me screeching tires!
A siren!
Uh, creaking!
Falling people!
Ahh!
Balloon!
Drop the boom!
We're doing great Buzz, but we need to add some weight to those precious paws.
Bass drum! Thank you.
Okay, just one more thing Buzz. And this is the million dollar sound.
You've got to give me the purrrfect roar.
I'll meet you back in the control room.
Okay Joe, we're going to use technology to pitch
the sound of the cat lower, make it sound gigantic!
Here's the sound of the kitten.
Well, larger animals usually have larger vocal cords, and they make lower frequency sounds.
We can pitch down the sound of the cat
make it much scarier.
That's deep.
Catastrophic!
Well, that's a wrap.
What he say we look at the finished product?
That was pretty frightening!
But why did those sounds scare me so much?
Click on Joe's face to head over to "It's Okay to be Smart"
for an explanation.
Sounds like a good plan.
Are you, are you going to click?
I thought we were going to click.
Buzz? Buzz? Anybody?
I'm...can we cut?
I'm going to go.