Running sound effect

Heavy flat slaps with a scuffed push off each one, never quite even. The unevenness is the point, since a perfectly regular run reads as a machine rather than a person.

Deep blunt thuds with the sole driving off hard. Reach for it when the runner is meant to be dangerous, since weight at speed reads as threat with no music helping.

Three slowing strides into one long dragging skid that stops dead. It hands an editor a clear end point, which a continuous run never does.

Air dragged in and pushed out roughly in time with the stride. Laid under any of the other cards, this is what turns a set of impacts into a person who is tiring.

Four sets of feet landing out of time with each other. Overlap is what makes a group read as a group, so the takes must never fall into step.

The same strides losing their bright edge and thinning as they go. Colour change is what an audience hears as distance, which is why fading a run down never works.