Jacob Shymanski

acting it out physically and when they're walking they actually walk and i think the way they did it is a lot of the foley is them actually like if they're eating dinner while eating they actually have a plate and fork and knife with them and acting it out physically and you can tell right and then they blend that with added you know atmospheric sounds in the back like the great hall it sounds super legit it's really cool

One of the cool things that they did was because this is a series where the kids age, the first three books has a set of actors for the kids, Harry, Ron, and Hermione, along with a bunch of other the younger characters, you know, like Neville and Draco.

And then moving on to book four, they switch to older actors, which they all sound fantastic to me in book four.

Only one book to play off of, but I'm pretty impressed.

The voice of Harry starting on book four, he's got a deep voice, which is really funny.

Harry sounds like a man, yo.

I get it and it sounds like we're complaining here but everything comes together beautifully with the sound design and the way characters kind of jump back and forth in their dialogue which the pacing is excellent by the way the way it zips from one scene to another there's always like the perfect amount of gap to let you know that it's moving on to the next scene even these like little like really clever sound transitions and it's not just a whoosh it's like

It's like the rustling of papers if you're in the library or like the whoosh of a snitch if you're going towards like the Quidditch match or something.

It's really clever, easy to follow.

And then the banter in between characters, which I don't think the characters were, the actors were in the same room recording most of the time.

But it sounds really good to me.

And that's, the credit goes to editors for putting that together in a natural way.

They recorded at Hogwarts.

I'm thinking of scenes like something simple, you know, Professor McGonagall drops her books because she gets startled by something and then uses magic to get the books back towards her.

Like you're like a little whoosh and then a plop plop plop of the books sort of stacking each other.

You can just picture it.

But the way all these sound effects tie into the narration and the dialogue is...

can contribute to a strange sense of timing.

Because the story and the dialogue needs to make space for the narration and the sound effects.

And so sometimes there's like a weird gap in dialogue or action, or it'll feel like something that...