Foley Sound Research.

Foley Research!

A Foley Artist is someone who creates everyday sounds to add to a film to make the quality better. These sounds that have been created can be anything from the swishing of clothing and footsteps to squeaky doors and breaking glass. The best foley art is so good and sounds so realistic that it goes unnoticed by the viewers It helps to create a sense of reality within a scene. Without these  background noises, movies wouldn't feel natural and instead uncomfortable.

The order the foley artists create sounds starts off  by doing the footsteps of the main character and then the background footsteps and then they go through the 'prop pass' which is where they provide a sound for anything moving on screen.

The key skills and qualities foley artists need are a creative mind, a good imagination and good timing as well as the ability to think outside the box because these types of artists have the ability to come up with unusual ideas to create a certain noise. They will also need a good knowledge of computers and technology as they will be working with lots of different electrical equipment.

Here is an example, in this clip from star wars, he began to hit a guy wire from a radio tower, and it bumped and made a twanging noise and this is where the laser gun came about