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- From: gt4476a@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael David Alberghini)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
- Subject: Re: Where was this special effect used?
- Message-ID: <73751@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 14:53:39 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.205023.44405@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- In article <1992Nov4.205023.44405@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- >ALIEN LANGUAGE SIMULATION
- >
- >I used to do this as a kid; the idea is to produce the effect of an
- >alien speaking English.
- >
- Technique is basically:
-
- 1. Tape yourself talking backwards.
-
- 2. Play the tape backwards
-
- >
- >If this is done fairly carefully, the result will be understandable
- >English, yet very alien-sounding--impossible to confuse with any
- >earthly foreign accent.
- >
- > --
- >-Ken <miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> {Sometimes you have to look reality straight
- > OPINIONS ARE MY OWN {in the eye, and deny it. - G. Keillor
-
- I don't know of a movie where this was used but David Lynch uses it.
- In Twin Peaks all of his 'supernatural' characters speak like this. It
- is not always so easy to understand. Lynch had to use subtitles in both
- tv and movies.
-
-
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- Mike Alberghini, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga, 30332
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