Foley artist

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The Foley artist on a film crew is the person who creates many of the natural, everyday sound effects in a film, which are recorded during a session with a recording engineer. Before the session, a project will be "cued", with notes kept about what sounds need to be created during the foley session. Often, the project will have a sound supervisor who will dictate what sounds need to be covered in a foley session, and what needs to be created by special (audio) effects, which is generally left to the sound designer. The roles of Foley artists, sound designers, editors, and supervisors are highly specialized and are essential to producing a professional-sounding soundtrack that is suitable for distribution and exhibition.

Sound effects and foley are added during post-production to dialog and real effects which were picked up by microphones on set. Sometimes (especially in the case of cartoons) there is no additional sound, and all the sounds need to be added by the foley artist and sound designer. The Foley artist may also accent existing sounds to make them more effective; enhancing the sounds of a fistfight may require thumping watermelons or cracking bamboo. Many Foley artists take pride in devising their own sound effects apparatuses, often using simple, commonly-found materials. Some "making-of" featurettes show Foley artists at work.

The term "Foley artist" is named after Jack Foley, one of the earliest and best-known Hollywood practitioners of the art. Foley began his career in the film industry as a stand-in and screenwriter during the silent era, and later helped Universal make the transition from silent movies to "talkies".

The Universal Studios Hollywood theme park presented a demonstration in its "World of Cinemagic" feature.

1 How some effects are made
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] How some effects are made

Effect	How It's Made
Galloping horses	Banging empty coconut shells together
Kissing	Kissing back of hand
Punching someone	Thumping watermelons
High heels	Artist walks in high heels on wooden platform
Bone-breaking blow	Breaking celery or bamboo or twisting a head of lettuce
Footsteps in snow	Squeezing a box of corn starch
Star Trek sliding doors	Pulling a piece of paper from an envelope
Star Wars sliding doors	Flare gun plus sneakers squeak
Bird flapping its wings	Flapping a pair of gloves
Grass or leaves crunching	Balling up audio tape

[edit] See also

[edit] References

Yewdall, David L (2007). The Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound. Focal Press (3 edition), pp. 205-226. ISBN 0240808657.

Mott, Robert L (1990). Sound Effects: Radio, Tv, and Film. Focal Press, pp. 192-201. ISBN 024080029X.

Hurbis-Cherrier, Mick (2007). Voice and Vision: A Creative Approach to Narrative Film and DV Production. Focal Press, pp. 421-422. ISBN 0240807731.

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