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Record Scratch

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About the Record Scratch sound

The sound that stops time. Fused permanently to the freeze-frame and to "yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here", it signals that a story is about to rewind and explain itself. The trick works because a needle dragged across vinyl is genuinely jarring: it interrupts music, which is to say it interrupts expectation. Use it to cut someone off mid-sentence, to open a story at its worst possible moment, or whenever a scene needs to visibly stop and reconsider what it has just done.

OriginThe vinyl-scratch interrupt, canonized by the freeze-frame narration trope.

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  • #record-scratch
  • #freeze
  • #stop
  • #transition

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