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For this week’s show we’ve done something we’ve never done before, it’s small but it’s significant.

We’ve recorded our own sound effect.

Yeah, sounds pretty lame, I’m sure. The point is that in the past, on the odd occasion we needed one, we’d try to get them off the ‘net. Usually what we’d end up with would be either only barely usable and in other cases whole bits were re-written or scrapped to avoid the use of the sound effect.

We needed the sound of a camera shutter and the ones I could find for free sounded utterly dreadful. Tinny or muffled, flat and lifeless. This is the effect we ended up with:

All it required was a camera and an SM58. I draped my duvet cover over the camera to dampen surrounding noise and hit record whilst pressing the shutter button a few times. Hardly taxing.
I’m hoping this will set a precedent for producing our own clips in future. We’re going to be licensing them under Creative Commons licenses, much like our shows. Maybe someone out there will use them, but my interest is in building an internal library of these sorts of resources for use in future by other Napier TV society members.

You can download the clip here:
MP3 192kbps stereo (26kb)

-Ben
Executive Producer