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How many spooky sounds can you make from a pumpkin?

How many sound effects can you make with a pumpkin?
Making sound effects with a pumpkin

A lot, apparently. This half-term, as well as animating, creating prosthetic limbs and green screen apparitions, we’ll be making as many sound effects as we can using a humble, bulbous pumpkin, this is what our team at Kensington Prep School Film Studio came up with last year:


PUMPKIN FOLEY DESIGN


Hollow Taps / Tap on a hollow pumpkin with your fingers or a stick. Depending on the thickness of the pumpkin and where you tap, you’ll get different pitched "knocking" or "bong" sounds.

Scraping / Use a spoon, your fingernails, or a stick to scrape the surface of the pumpkin. This can create a scratchy or scraping sound.

Drumming / If you carve a pumpkin and remove the top, you can drum on the opening or sides with sticks to create deeper sounds, like a drum.

Rubbing / Rub the outside of the pumpkin with different materials (e.g., cloth, rubber) to create different friction-based noises.

Seeds Shaker / Leave some pumpkin seeds inside and shake the whole pumpkin like a rattle. The seeds moving around will make a soft rattling or shaking noise.

String Sounds / If you attach strings or rubber bands around the pumpkin and pluck them, it will create twangy sounds, similar to a guitar or a harp.

Squishing / If you use an old, soft pumpkin and press it, squish or smash it, it will make a squelching or squishy sound, perfect for when you’re stuck in a swamp.


Places are still available to book for this Halloween/half-term, more info here.

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