"Flash Noir"--Help on new movie

[pikpikcarrotmon]

Hi. This is my first post here, so bear with me--I'm an ubernoob! Anyway, I've got a new movie planned called "Flash Noir." What it is is a Noir type movie that chronicles the creation of a Flash movie and its submission to Newgrounds. I've got the story all worked out--this thing is AWESOME. I'm not that great of an artist, but my animations are pretty good... anyway, here's where I need help.

1. I need good gun sound effects.
2. Maybe a male voice actor with a deep Noir detective-ish voice.
3. Similes. Why, you ask?

Noir monologues are riddled with cliched similies. "I pulled the trigger and he went down like a sack of potatoes." "Then it hit me like a bus--I was in love." etc. I want lots of these! This is my main concern with the movie. I haven't written the actual script yet because I've been trying to come up with a lot of similies to use in the movie. Thank you, and I hope to have this done soon!

Here is a link to my home forums where we're figuring out some metaphors. Maybe you can get some creative inspiration there.
http://www.rpgeternal.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=206

[AGH]

At 4/28/05 12:17 AM, pikpikcarrotmon wrote: 1. I need good gun sound effects.

You should find some from at least one of the sites listed here: http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic.php?id=254761

2. Maybe a male voice actor with a deep Noir detective-ish voice.

You could try the voice acting club: http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic.php?id=207423

VA Roster

[pikpikcarrotmon]

Alright, thanks. That's one down. Maybe two. I posted there, so we'll see how that turns out. Doubt they'll pay attention to me without any prior work here, though.

[Vali-Ent]

At 4/28/05 12:48 AM, pikpikcarrotmon wrote: Alright, thanks. That's one down. Maybe two. I posted there, so we'll see how that turns out. Doubt they'll pay attention to me without any prior work here, though.

I got sound effects and the voice... and I work for free.

[13LeafClover]

http://flashkit.com/search.php...r=10&page=1&term=shots

direct link to a 9mm i belive six shots i'll find a link to a 44 magnum

[13LeafClover]

it was in my favorites

http://soundamerica.com/sounds/sound_fx/A-E/

one of the best places aside from flashkit for soundfx

[pikpikcarrotmon]

Man, I love the NG Forums already. You guys are the greatest. It takes SO long for GameFAQs posters to post... and don't get me started on my forum (RPGE)! Thanks a lot, and expect the script finished whenever my topics here and there fill up with about 20 or so similes. Thanks again!

[13LeafClover]

"When i looked at the south side of my third scotch i relized that the diamonds were in the rabbis beard the entire time."

"she looked at me with those peircing baby blue eyes as if to say hey get that mustard of your face."

im repaying for the help with my thing

[pikpikcarrotmon]

That's awesome! More, more! I'll have to modify them a bit, but you most certainly can expect a variation! Maybe "As I looked at the south side of my coffee, I realized my great idea was right there all the time." The second one is flawless, though. Good job.

[ZombieLincoln]

"My movie was exported like drugs out of Columbia."
"I had 12 keys; 11 frames, and one to the safe" (or one for the car, or whatever)
"My image was imported onto the stage. I tap F6, and it's as framed as Roger Rabbit"
"The case was like onion skinning: I kept seeing new layers of the past, and I couldn't help but shed a tear."
"His punch was as predictable as a 12-year-old's tween"
"Little did I know it, but as I keyed my frames, he was keying my car.."
"The clues were as scattered and varied as the layers in my animation: some locked, some invisible - but all necessary to finish the job."

Nothing to great there, but maybe they'll be useful?

Anyway, I'm supposed to be asleep.

[pikpikcarrotmon]

Your name suggests you should be dead, too, but that didn't stop you from giving me a bunch of great metaphors! I like the Flash spin on them, too. I actually wasn't thinking of that kind of simile at all, but it works great.

[13LeafClover]

i liked her but she liked him and he liked somebody else and thats when it came to me that love sucks

and just like a lightbulb turning on in my head i knew where to find the proof

i took the case though it made as much sence as an amish electrician

[13LeafClover]

look wat i found

Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
> --Sue Lin Chong, Washington
>
> His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
> --Chuck Smith, Woodbridge
>
> He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a Guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
> --Joseph Romm, Washington
>
> She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.
> --Rich Murphy, Fairfax Station
>
> The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
> --Russell Beland, Springfield
>
> McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
> --Paul Sabourin, Silver Spring
>
> From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and "Jeopardy" comes on at 7:00 p. m. instead of 7:30.
> --Roy Ashley, Washington
>
> Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.
> --Chuck Smith, Woodbridge
>
> Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.
> --Russell Beland, Springfield
>
> Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch at ung but gets T:flw.quidaaakk/ch at ung by mistake.
> --Ken Krattenmaker, Landover Hills
>
> Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
> --Unknown
>
> He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
> --Jack Bross, Chevy Chase
>
> The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
> --Gary F. Hevel, Silver Spring
>
> Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
> --Jennifer Hart, Arlington
>
> The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.
> --Wayne Goode, Madison, AL
>
> They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.
> --Paul Kocak, Syracuse NY
>
> John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
> --Russell Beland, Springfield
>
> The thunder was ominous sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.
> --Barbara Fetherolf, Alexandria
>
> The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.
> --Unknown
>
> He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.
> --Brian Broadus, Charlottesville
>
> Even in his last years, Grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.
> -- Sandra Hull, Arlington
>
> The door had been forced, as forced as the dialogue during the interview portion of "Jeopardy! "
> --Jean Sorensen, Herndon
>
> Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
> --Jerry Pannullo, Kensington
>
> The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
> --Malcolm Fleschner, Arlington
>
> The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
> --Malcolm Fleschner, Arlington
>
> "Oh, Jason, take me! " she panted, her breasts heaving like a college freshman on $1-a-beer night.
> --Bonnie Speary Devore, Gaithersburg
>
> He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
> --John Kammer, Herndon
>
> Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell butter from I Can't Believe It's Not Butter.
> --Barbara Collier, Garrett Park
>
> She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
> --Susan Reese, Arlington
>
> It came down the stairs looking very much like something no one had ever seen before.
> --Marian Carlsson, Lexington
>
> The knife was as sharp as the tone used by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex. ) in her first several points of parliamentary procedure made to Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill. ) in the House Judiciary Committee hearings on the impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton.
> --J. F. Knowles, Springfield
>
> The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
> --Jennifer Hart, Arlington
>
> The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.
> --Paul J. Kocak, Syracuse
>
> The dandelion swayed in the gentle breeze like an oscillating electric fan set on medium.
> --Unknown
>
> It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
> --Brian Broadus, Charlottesville
>
> He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
> --Susan Reese, Arlington
>
> She was as easy as the "TV Guide" crossword.
> --Tom Witte, Gaithersburg
>
> Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.
> --Chuck Smith, Woodbridge
>
> She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
> --Brian Broadus, Charlottesville
>
> She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.
> --Jonathan Paul, Garrett Park
>
> Her voice had that tense, grating quality, like a first-generation thermal paper fax machine that needed a band tightened.
> --Sue Lin Chong, Washington
>
> It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.
> --Brian Broadus, Charlottesville

[pikpikcarrotmon]

I'll keep a running list of these now.

1. When I looked at the south side of my third scotch, I realized that the diamonds were in the rabbi's beard the entire time."
2. She looked at me with those piercing baby blue eyes as if to say, "Hey, get that mustard off your face!"
3. My movie was exported like drugs out of Columbia.
4. I had 12 keys; 11 frames, and one to the safe.
5. My image was imported onto the stage. I tap F6, and it's as framed as Roger Rabbit.
6. The case was like onion skinning: I kept seeing new layers of the past, and I couldn't help but shed a tear.
7. His punch was as predictable as a 12-year-old's tween.
8. Little did I know it, but as I keyed my frames, he was keying my car..
9. The clues were as scattered and varied as the layers in my animation: some locked, some invisible - but all necessary to finish the job.
10. I liked her but she liked him and he liked somebody else and that's when it came to me that love sucks.
11. And just like a lightbulb turning on in my head I knew where to find the proof.
12. I took the case though it made as much sense as an Amish electrician.

[pikpikcarrotmon]

Oh, God, I think I'm in Heaven now. That's FREAKING AWESOME!!! Thank you SO MUCH! Alright, now to get writing it...

[13LeafClover]

hey dude call the main character richard whiskey ask me why

[pikpikcarrotmon]

Richard Whiskey. Nice name. I was thinking Clive as a first name, but yours is cool... why "Richard Whiskey," might I ask? Clive Whiskey... maybe Clive Gin, Clive Rum, Clive Scotch...

[13LeafClover]

so for short they can call him Dick liquer HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOH

[pikpikcarrotmon]

That's actually pretty clever, even though I'm sure YOU didn't come up with that one. I might use it... although, what would you suggest as a last name for Clive? I'm thinking maybe Clive Savage or Clive Steel.

[13LeafClover]

something i leared in my movie teaching experience (yes i have taught) i leared the best names for cops or detectives ether begin with mc, end with er, or have one quick sylible

clive piver (pie_ver)

clive shagle

clive mclroy (Mic_el_roy)

Clive mortson

clive martin (weird choice)

Clive doyal (doyal means dark stranger)

[D-Mac-Double]

I like Clive Steel. You can't go wrong naming him after a metal.
Clive Steel, Clive Silver, Clive Copper, Clive.... umm... Mercury? It all works. =P

[D-Mac-Double]

By the way Pikpik, did you see my recent post in the Voice Acting Club? ^_^

[unownedJR]

If you want any sound effects, message me on MSN and go into file share, I can get you ANYTHING

I have about 4000 different sounds.

[Omahdon]

Sorry if this bursts your bubble of soliciting free similes here, but the dialogue of Film Noir is usually a little bit more than just a couple of one-liners with ludricously elaborate descriptions of simple (what is meant to be) tasks and imagery. There needs to be an underlying rhythm that connects all the setences together. For example.... If the main character starts with the imagery of water, his next couple of thoughts would have to be on the same subject. Like below:

"Rain was falling down like all the oceans of the world had been swallowed up by the sky and then regurgitated unto the population below. People walked through the water like marine life fighting furiously against the turbulent waves of Neptunes wrath. Drains and potholes lurked under the surface to trap the unwary pedestrian, exisiting as coral reefs made of tarmac and concrete."

It's a little forced, but you get my meaning. That said, if you're looking for voice actors or gun sound effects ( as well as some foley work) I can help a bit. Check out my voice sampler in the link in my siggy.

[pikpikcarrotmon]

Thanks for stating the obvious! I know that! I have a wonderful story all laid out LIKE I SAID and these similes are just to tack on. The style of Noir is to string together a somewhat convoluted story (usually), sometimes a mystery. They're narrated, mostly by the main character, and he's normally got a funky sense of humor and makes wisecracks in his commentary about the bad things that happen in his adventures. I saw Sin City recently, and that kind of rekindled my love for Noir. So, as for your rude "awakening," I'm well aware of that. I'm just asking for some help making my story BETTER than it is already. Look at Men's Room Monologue--not that great of animation, but it's all in what he says. And saying is what I'm good at (among other things)!