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Flying Birds - How to Make the Wings Flapping
This is a technique that we use for several different crunches. Other things just aren't feasible, like training a live bird to flap on cue. For flying birds, Chris makes the wing sounds himself. I'm going to be doing the wings flapping as the bird flies through the air. Can you guess what that is? And what I'm using is just a feather duster. Many of them are made with ostrich feathers.
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Speaker 4
It sounds
Speaker 2
pretty gruesome, but of course it's not their actual bones getting smashed. And this is a technique that we use for several different crunches.
Speaker 1
To reveal what I'm using is just a stock of celery. And we'll use that in conjunction with jammies. We'll mix it up and put it on the floor, maybe do it in more of a gravelly surface, which will give it even more texture. It's used a lot.
Speaker 2
Other things just aren't feasible, like training a live bird to flap on cue. So for flying birds, Chris makes the wing sounds himself.
Speaker 1
I'm going to be doing the wings flapping as the bird flies through the air. Okay, here we
Speaker 2
go. Can you guess
Speaker 4
what that
Speaker 1
is? And what I'm using is just a feather duster.
Speaker 2
That's right, just a classic handheld feather duster. Many of them are made with ostrich
Speaker 1
feathers. And I'm hitting it against my hand to make that sound of the flapping of the wings. So if I were doing a smaller bird, obviously they're smaller wings that flap more frequently. So a smaller bird is going to sound more like this. Whereas a larger bird, and now I'm taking a larger feather duster, is going to be more like this. I can even do something like this, which is just my fingers manipulating the feathers to make something even
Speaker 2
smaller.
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