FOLEY

By Marwa awadh

What is Foley?
Foleyis

the reproduction of
everydaysoundeffects that are added to film,
video, and other media in post-production to
enhance audio quality. These
reproducedsoundscan be anything from the
swishing of clothing and footsteps to squeaky
doors and breaking glass.

Foley Artists:
Foley

artists recreate the realistic ambient sounds

that the film portrays. The props and sets of a film
often do not react the same way acoustically as their
real life counterparts. Foley sounds are used to
enhance the auditory experience of the movie. Foley
can also be used to cover up unwanted sounds
captured on the set of a movie during filming, such
as overflying airplanes or passing traffic.

CREATION:

Often there are many little sound effects that happen within any given scene of a movie. The process of
recording them all can be tedious and time consuming. Foley art can be broken down into three main
categories:Moves,Feet, andSpecifics.

Feet: The category entails the sound of footsteps.To produce the sound of walking down a staircase for
example, two Foley artists stomp their feet on a marble slab in a recording studio while watching the footage.
Foley studios carry many different types of shoes and several different types of floors to create footstep
sounds

Cloth: The cloth category makes up many of the more subtle sounds heard in films. Foley artists will add
the swishing of clothing as the when two actors walk past each other.[2]This sound is created by rubbing two
pieces of the same material together near the microphone at the same rate that the actors legs cross. [4]Cloth
is not always used and tends to be recorded at the discretion of the dubbing mixer who ultimately controls
the final outcome of the audio post-production process.

Common tricks Foley artists use:

Corn starch in a leather pouch makes the sound of snow crunching

A pair of gloves sounds like bird wings flapping

An arrow or thin stick makes a whoosh

An old chair makes a controllable creaking sound

A water soaked rusty hinge when placed against different surfaces makes a
creaking sound. Different surfaces change the sound considerably

A heavy staple gun combined with other small metal sounds make good gun noises

A metal rake makes the rattle/squeak sound of chain-link fence (it can also make
a metallic screech when dragged across a piece of metal)

A heavy car door and fender can create most of the car sounds needed but having
a whole car in the studio is better

The term "Foley" is also used to

describe a place, such
as Foley-stage or Foleystudio, where the Foley
process takes place.

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NOW

YOU TRY
AND DO IT

QUESTIONS:

WHAT IS FOLEY?

WHAT IS THE CONSIDERED THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN FILM MAKING

WHAT ARE FOLEY ARTISTS?

WHAT THINGS CAN YOU USE IN FOLEY?

WHAT DO FOLEY ARTISTS TRY TO RECREATE?

ANSWERS:

Foleyis the reproduction of everydaysoundeffects that are added to film

SOUND

Foley artists recreate the realistic ambient sounds

ANYTHING

realistic ambient sounds