I always see this used to describe body inflation, but what inflation scenes use this as a sound? I seriously want to know.
I just can't imagine the sound all that well.
"Fwoomp"?
Sat, 04/26/2014 - 10:43
#1
"Fwoomp"?
Sat, 04/26/2014 - 17:57
#3
I imagine it as sounding somewhat like a parachute being deployed.
Sat, 04/26/2014 - 17:57
#4
I imagine it as sounding somewhat like a parachute being deployed.
Sun, 04/27/2014 - 19:06
#5
Inflate123
Like Carnatic, I saw it as the sound of the thing that is being inflated suddenly filling and growing taut. The "fwoomp" is really the sound of the item being inflated unfurling and taking a shape.
Mon, 04/28/2014 - 05:19
#6
I imagine it as the sound of someone sitting down hard in a bean bag chair.
Mon, 04/28/2014 - 12:27
#7
I believe foley artists would take a heavy fabric item such as a curtain and drop it onto the floor.
Mon, 04/28/2014 - 12:27
#8
I believe foley artists would take a heavy fabric item such as a curtain and drop it onto the floor.
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 07:43
#11
This thread: lol
xD
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 08:17
#12
Asking a perfectly legitimate question, since I see it used everywhere.
Sun, 05/11/2014 - 20:28
#13
I think of "fwoomp" as a sudden, rapid inflation to capacity, like a balloon attached to an air cylinder. As a balloon inflates, the sound of the air flow changes pitch as the the skin of the balloon tightens, sort of like strumming a rubber band as you stretch it, the air is strumming the skin of the balloon. So you have this flowing air sound vibrating the balloon and constantly changing pitch until it comes to an abrupt stop. I think the "fwoo" is like the sound of the vibrating balloon as it inflates and the "mp" is the abrupt stop of the air and the sound. Using the rubber band analogy again, if you strum a rubber band you get kind of a "twang" sound that changes pitch as you stretch it, but if you grab the rubber band in the middle of the twang it abruptly stops with a sort of "thump" sound, like the balloon.
That's my theory, anyway. Actually, I don't think balloons make the "mp" sound in real life. It's just there for dramatic effect in fiction to make a stretching noise at the end of an inflation. Real balloons don't really make that nose unless you rub them.
It's not a real sound, but an onomatopoeia, a word in a literary sense that would attempt to describe a sound, like what you find in a comic book or graphic novel. In the case of inflation, the word "fwoomp" gets used a lot to represent instantaneous inflation, where the individual inflates without a second's notice.