The Magic of Making Sound

In Hollywood, everything is magic and make-believe, even sounds. When you watch a film that immerses you completely in its world, you’re probably hearing the work of sound artists. If the work is done right, you won’t be able to tell that the “natural” sounds on screen are manufactured with studio props. That's the challenge for Warner Bros. Foley artists Alyson Moore, Chris Moriana and mixer Mary Jo Lang. Theirs is a practice in recreation, one creative element at a time.

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[sarahcreates]

I love that one of the boxes was labelled “gun stuff, grenades”

[layoverbear]

Ive always assumed the sounds were always the actual sound captured in the scene, not post production. Recently ive discovered Foley artists. Theyre amazing!

[donvitocorleone]

The unsung hero of every film, a very underated form of art.

[jadentallarico]

These people deserve way more appreciation than than get

[thenoze]

"People take sound for granted" the better they do their job the more we take it for granted!

[charliandhypehouse_editz]

That cornstarch crunch for the snow is just complete ASMR

[CafeenMan]

"What do you do for a living?"


"I make noise."

[mollytsanadis]

I love how non high tech it is, just two guys playing with some random shit

[JamesGWall]

This is so interesting. I could watch an hour of it!

[JohnFerrieMusic]

For people wondering why this is necessary, there are quite a few reasons why this is still done for films and TV shows.

Firstly, movie sets are noisey. There is noise from equipment, from crew and from uncontrollable background noise from the set location. This is the same reason why even the dialogue is commonly rerecorded later in a process called ADR.

Secondly, recording these sounds in a studio means that you have more control in the aesthetic of the soundtrack. An example of this would be in comparing the sound for a movie fight scene, where the sounds are very exaggerated and hyped, and a real life fight.

Thirdly, it's important to keep the dialogue audio and the Foley/sound effects audio recorded separately from each other. This is so that the dialogue tracks can be removed and replaced for dubbed foreign translations. This would not be possible if the audio was recorded as is on set, as the dialogue would be present in the recorded SFX.

[chno]

"All sound are two elements hitting each other"
Me: mind blown

[carloslasprilla]

that studio is like disneyland for asmrists

[mysticlance]

obviously your doing a pretty good dam job if I'm just now knowing about this

[earthisadonut]

You will never watch movies the same way ever again.

[fayebaesama]

I think Foley artists and mixers are admirable in their efforts to bring the screen to life! Greatly appreciate their work!

[taylorpike]

1:30
So that's why every horse on tv and movies sounds like it only has 3 legs.

[rysunshine]

I wish I'd known this was a potential career path like 20 years ago.

[blzedbeats]

It's not about faking the sounds... it's about improving the quality of the movie/video..


They make these for the details you hear but probably missed or don't care about.. the actual audio from the video would probably sound like shit.

[Dizzle]

I will never look at another movie the same again.

[Hypocrisy]

Plot twist: The sounds of this video are also recorded separately