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According to Foley artist Stefan Fraticelli, who’s worked on TV shows like “Parks and Recreation” and “Fargo” and movies like the “Conjuring” series, footsteps are the most challenging sound for a Foley artist to master. Finding the right footwear, surface, and sync is not always straightforward. For example, if he has to match a pair of high heels on-screen, real heels will produce an unpleasant sound against rocks or dirt, so he’ll use sneakers instead. And if he wants to create creepy creaking sounds on a wood floor in a horror movie, he’ll have to do it with just socks on so the sound fully comes through. Meanwhile, Stefan needs to have a really sharp ear for the subtle differences between the sounds of different types of rocks, because it won’t sound right if his Foley materials don’t exactly align with what’s on camera. Finally, keeping up with all the action on-screen involves a lot of practice in everything from rhythm to proper weight distribution. Sometimes, it sounds better to create tap-dancing sounds with your hands instead of your feet.

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Foley artists in their studios are always fun to watch. They are extremely creative

cinemanuggets
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For anyone wondering why they don’t just use the footsteps recorded on set; A lot of the time they aren’t even being recorded at all. Voice performances are always prioritized on a shoot. In fact, when it comes time to edit the sound, often only the dialogue is preserved from the scene. The background sounds are completely stripped away and created new.

A sound edit is typically broken up into: Dialogue, Foley, Backgrounds, Sound Effects, and Music.

I’m in my final year of film school and hope to become a sound designer/Foley artist soon :)

BitByte_
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Dude, I’ve always been fascinated with foley work. Who would have thought that sounds we take for granted require such effort to replicate onto the screen.

leeartlee
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The fact that most of us don't notice anything unnatural about it when watching a movie means they've really done a great job.

hijeffhere
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Foley artists are the unsung heroes of all TV shows and movies. Most people don't even realize that they exist. Which is really sad. If they were more recognized at awards shows (Oscars, etc), then maybe people would give them the credit which they are due. ✌🇨🇦👍💯😎

sueparras
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As a resident in a Nordic country one always notices how hard it is to try to create right sound for walking in the snow. The sound is definitely different if it's -2C or -20C outside. The colder it gets, the more squeaky the footsteps sound.

ciapatta
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I always like finding out how movies are more complicated than we usually think.

deckardcanine
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Whoa. Totally in awe of this guy. Holy cow. Now here is a skill set that is rare - like a musician a composer and improv artist. I am blow away by his process.

MarloweDash
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One of my friends in art school was a film major, and demolishing vegetables in his kitchen for a horror short has forever given me the greatest appreciation for Foley artists.

RamadaArtist
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Foley artists have one of the best jobs in existence! It looks like so much fun, and they must view and hear the world around them very differently. Imagine being woken in the night by your Foley artist partner, because they've had a random sound effect epiphany in their sleep and have to act on it immediately before they forget it 😆😆😆

openorwap
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I wonder, if in a Movie where they show a Foley artist do foley art in the studio, if they'd use the original sounds, or have another foley artist mimic the sound the foley artist in the movie makes

erdmannelchen
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*One of the many unsung heroes in filmmaking...*

Lanhoj
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Augie May. A forgotten great overdub artist who I had the honor of meeting at zenith dB studios in Chicago circa 1979. What a master. R.I.P

proudhammer
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Foley artististry is a profession that perpetuates itself. By making sounds that people expect, those sounds are always expected vs what the actual sound is.

reddog
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My brother was a Foley artist in Hollywood who specialized in footsteps. It was hard work and took a toll on him.

kathymack
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I studied Sound Engineering and I used enjoy creating sounds and doing voise overs for cartoon characters on my school projects. It was really fun

etvscandalfanpage
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It amazes me that making a movie isn’t about act and edit. It requires a lot of time and effort from costumes, scripts to sounds. I never thought that the sounds were actually made by foley artists! Even after the video, I cannot still believe it!

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My favorite "we couldn't afford foley work" example is a scene from an episode of the ultra-low-budget Brit show, _Doctor Who._ The action takes place in a cavern that has been turned into some kind of temple. The Doctor is standing atop a stepped altar supposedly carved from a natural rock platform. He runs down to ground level and out of the cavern. Every step is the hollow booming of a very obviously wooden platform and floor. It's actually kind of charming, like watching your kid's middle school play.

saulshennan
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It's so crazy how much work goes into this, yet it's something that most of the time people don't recognize consciously.

Also, it's amazing to me, that it is still done this way. You would think that all possible variations of all possible sounds can be found in a digital stock sound library and mixed in placed at the right time.

johanneshalberstadt
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Sound effects are so underrated. Whenever im watching an anime or movie im always listening to the sound effects and how many there are.

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