Research into Recording Foley Sound and Sound Effects

Foley is the process of putting everyday sound effects to film, TV, adverts and video games which are added in post-production to enhance the quality. They put in the physical sounds such as kisses, skin touches, handling of guns etc. Movies often feel unnaturally quiet and uncomfortable without these sounds.
Quite often the actors will have a microphone under their collar on the costume and when filming, their priority is to record the dialogue. For example, a plane may fly over head in a period drama, which then makes the sound useless meaning you'll have to re voice everything from the actors as well as create a soundscape for the voice to sit on. So it makes it easier to put a recording of a plane over the top of the pre recorded dialogue.

The order in which foley artists create sound is they start off by doing the footsteps of the main character and the lead actors 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 creativity, 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 the specific noise. Another skill they could do with is being computer wise because they need to be able to use a variety of different types of equipment.

The advantages of using real objects when creating sound FX rather than using digital production or sound libraries is that real objects show a bit more realism and bring it to life more. This is because they have more depth meaning you can hear every fine detail better because of the microphone quality.

In the star wars clip, he began to hit a guy wire from a radio tower, and it bumped and made a 'twanging' sound, this is where the laser gun became about.