The Booj: The secret sound formula behind blockbuster trailers

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Music, Design, Arts, Music Commentary

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Movie trailers have undergone a huge evolution. They’ve gone from those cheesy voice-of-God narrators in the ‘80s and ‘90s, to boojes and bwaas. Professor James Deaville delivers the history of trailers, and Youtuber Craven Moorhaus offers a hilarious takedown of the sounds and dialogue that are common in the modern trailer style. After you hear this episode, you’ll never be able to watch a blockbuster trailer the same way again. Twenty Thousand Hertz is produced out of the studios of Defacto Sound and hosted by Dallas Taylor. Follow Dallas on Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn. Watch our video shorts on YouTube, and join the discussion on Reddit and Facebook. Become a monthly contributor at 20k.org/donate. If you know what this week's mystery sound is, tell us at mystery.20k.org. Check out more videos from the Auralnauts at youtube.com/Auralnauts. Check out Song Exploder wherever you get your podcasts. Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/thebooj Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.
0:03.1	I'm Dallas Taylor.
0:07.2	When you think about how a movie trailer sounds, what comes to mind?
0:11.2	Does it sound something like this?
0:13.4	In a land of eternal beauty and infinite mystery, A legend was born.
0:22.0	This is the trailer from the 2000 film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. In it, you have all
0:26.9	of the ingredients of a classic trailer. The story of a warrior. Including the legendary voice
0:32.8	of Don LaFontaine. Crouching Tiger. Hidden Dragon.
0:43.2	The only thing that could possibly take this trailer over the top is the classic intro,
0:44.4	In a World.
0:46.3	In a world without gas.
0:48.4	In a world that's powered by violence.
0:50.7	In a world of falafel.
0:53.9	This is the classic recipe for a movie trailer, right? Well, not really.
0:56.0	Movie trailers don't really sound like that anymore.
0:59.0	A boomy voice of God is pretty rare nowadays.
1:02.0	Trailers now really sound a lot more like this.
1:10.0	And you've got this sound that can only be described as the booges.
1:16.5	You know, the booges.
1:20.4	You usually hear it before or after the more obvious blois.
1:32.3	And after listening to this episode, you'll start hearing the buge everywhere.
1:40.3	The buge is a term that I think we just made it up. It's the term that we use for the subwarfer shaking low frequency drops that usually
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