Category: foley

Foley Day 1

Joseph Pallot / / foley, LO4

on the first booking of the sound theatre we started off with the smaller clip that we were given before the initial picture lock, this was the main dinner scene in the middle of the film.

we were able to recreate all of the cutlery and glass sounds, to create a full sounding foley mix, by the end of this session we had sounds for glasses being moved, put down, and touched, as well as multiple different cutlery sounds, dropping sounds and other important pieces of foley added to our Clip List for the main film.

We found this session to be useful because it gave us a lot of practise in looking for the smaller, more subtle sounds that we needed to add, as well as giving us a chance to figure out how to recreate the sounds that we needed.

 

watching through the picture lock

Joseph Pallot / / foley

once we received picture lock we were able to make a list of everything we needed to finish the sound for this film, we listed all of the foley that we could see, as well as constructing an order in which we could record it. we also discussed the opportunities for music and atmos too.

At first it seemed like there wasn’t a lot to record in terms of foley, as a lot of the scene is filmed with the actors either walking or sitting with not much interaction with anything that would make noise, but we quickly noticed how empty the soundtrack was without the smaller noises such as glasses being placed on tables, bags being scraped along people’s bodies and other little sounds that people normally wouldn’t give a second thought to.

While listening back to the atmos tracks that we recorded we also discovered that the recordings were all very bland and that the pre-amps on the zooms made more noise than the rooms themselves so we knew that we would have to construct our own atmospheric tracks too.