In the spirit of the Audacity assignment, I wanted to share a really interesting article (and sound clip) about the making of Godzilla’s roar. My dad and brother were obsessed with Godzilla when I was growing up, so I know way too much about the films, and have seen most of the old ones as well as the new movie (highly recommended). His roar is so incredibly iconic, and I find it fascinating to read about the making of the roar, which includes screeching metal. I swear that I read a long time ago that the sound included a lion roaring and a train passing by, but that’s not in this article so maybe I made it up.) I shared the article and sound clip in a comment on someone else’s post and thought it was worth sharing with you all!
Check it out here.
Eric T
I enjoyed the artistic process that went into this. I was aware of sound mixing in film production before, but the creators of this roar took it to a whole other level. In action films they use a variety of sounds like a slapping sound when you punch a raw steak and the crunching of chips to produce the iconic punching sound we hear. These guys immersed themselves into their own work of fiction as Godzilla is an other worldly thing, they used frequencies out of our range and brought them down to a pitch that we could hear them. I also think this goes along with this culture of science in art, where everything has a behind the scenes look into how something is made. I respect the creators of this roar because they did not want to shatter the illusion of Godzilla in that if they told us outright what went into the roar then you no longer would think ‘oh no! that’s Godzilla’ when you heard the roar but you would actually know it’s just the shrieking of a bass guitar that they produced in a studio.