Author: Eneasz

I felt that the normal HPMoR Intro/Outro of “Catch That Goblin” was a bit out of place for the Humanism arc. I wanted something darker, something foreboding. I was in the midst of a big Tool kick at the time, and “Wings For Marie”/”10,000 Days” seemed fitting, being both a lamentation of death and, in a way, almost a triumph over it.

This was the biggest production up until this point (soon to be topped though!). I think it’s also the first instance of a sound effect actually taking the place of the narration. I wanted to make sure the association was solid with the listener and they wouldn’t have to guess at what they were hearing, so immediately before the stick/plop section where the text reads “ as she slowly peeled the fingertips of one hand off the wall with an extended sticky sound. Her hand plopped back down again almost as soon as it was lifted.” I underlaid the words “extended sticky sound” with the FX of the stretching balloon, and the words “plopped” with the plopping sound. I assume it worked, as no one has complained.

Again, there’s no real reason that Millicent is French (or Cajun, depending on my skill…), I just thought it’d be fun and distinct.

In the first pass I had put in the Headmasters Office Theme at every point where background noises where brought to the reader’s attention (after several of the page breaks). It was a bit overbearing though, and it didn’t have the effect of drawing attention to the silence between the speakers (which I assume was the intention in the text. It certainly worked that way for me.) I dropped every instance but the first “introductory” one.