Author: Eneasz

I knew I had to do something special for the flashback. Simply adding an echo wasn’t enough. I’d known for quite some time that I was going to use the background music from Max Payne’s dream sequence, as that’s the best “someone is breaking into my home and murdering my wife and infant son” scene that I can remember, ever. It took a fair bit of doing to remove all the stuff I didn’t want in there, and loop what was remaining to the correct length, but I’m very happy with the final result. :)

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.