Foley artists

Foley artists are the ones behind creating the sound for a movie. They are necessary for movie's because the vast majority of the sound used in movie's (not including speech and music) is recreated by Foley artists after the filming. Foley artists are used because most sound is lost when filming so would not be heard by the audience of the film.

Five examples of how Foley artists recreate sounds: Corn starch in a leather pouch sounds like crunching snow, An old chair makes a good creaking sound, Half a coconut shell sounds like horse feet, a telephone book surrounded in tape sounds like body punches and cellophane sounds like a crackling fire.

This sounds like snow crunching.

Evaluate own work: The difficult part of this was to think of how the sounds could be recreated. This was difficult because Foley artists use items very different to the object making the sound so is not always easy to work out what to use. The easier part was to actually make the sounds after working out what to use to create the sounds. The sounds we used were to tap a shoe against a wall to replicate walking down stairs. This gave the sound of the tapping of the shoes as I walked down the stairs. I did enjoy doing this because it is unusual and not what you would think of when talking about the making of films.

A Foley artist showing what he does.

The knowledge of Foley sounds will be useful in the making of the thriller opening because it means that with a bit of editing, the audience will be able to hear everything clearly. This will help with the building up of suspense and bring the audience into the film.