“When you’re watching a film, believe *less* than half of what you hear when Foley artist Jamie Hunsdale creates the sounds you hear on the screen. He works with the sound studio we prefer, Bad Animals.
Foley, (pronounced foal’-ee> is the art/craft of creating sounds that actors and objects appear to make onscreen. In some cases no sound at all is actually recorded when we’re shooting, in other cases the microphone catching the scene can’t pick up the specific noise needed to make the scene feel real.”
Read this article from Colleen Patrick.
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Really good idea, Peter. I’ve been many times to Foley recordings. The skull-celery crunch put me off Waldorf salads for the longest time…
Dane