Let’s make some foley
Foley, Twenty Thousand Hertz Podcast
Not all the sounds and scratches and noises we hear in a movie were recorded during the shooting of that same movie. Actually, maybe none of them. These sounds are added in post-production and the so called foley artists are those that made them.
This show by the very good Twenty Thousand Hertz Podcast points out two (and more) aspects of the reason why foley artists are so important. Movie sounds are made using different materials and stuff, many times not even the real thing that actually produces that particular sound. This is because movies need sounds that “sound like”, or distorted in a way or the other. The foley artist from “Nemo” describes for instance how many different water sounds she made for that movie, because water is indeed not just plain water.
And then: sounds are important because they’re fundamental for the storytelling: they are subtle and go mostly unnoticed, but you need them to stick a story to your mind.
Foley artists are not just simple artists: there’s some art in what they do but there’s also science and storytelling. A foley artists has to understand and feel the story in order to get the right sounds, at the right time.
Check out all the Twenty Thousand Hertz Podcast shows: very well edited and produced, always superinteresting.
