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What are some examples of sounds
you make and props you use?
I have a metal hinge I use. I can put it on a piece of wood
and it resonates to sound like the creak on a wooden gate. If
I take the same hinge and put it on a piece of metal, it will
be "echo-y" and eerie, like the creak of a metal gate
at a haunted mansion. I have a creaky chair that I use for wooden
floor and door creaks. Then, I can rotate that chair on a wooden
platform that we have on the stage and make massive creaking
noises that sound like a giant ship. That sound is also processed
with a harmonizer and pitched down in the mixing control room.
A harmonizer pitches sound up or down in octaves. The mixer
uses this and other audio gear to enhance what the Foley artist
does when recording the sound.
Sometimes the
actual props that are in the movie don’t sound as good,
and that’s part of being a Foley artist, too. You have
to find other props that make those sounds. And a lot of it
is improvising and knowing what props to use and that just comes
with experience.
There are also many different surfaces on the Foley stage: wood,
cement, gravel, and dirt, for whatever the character is walking
on. Other sounds we commonly make are windows breaking, car
crashes, horses’ hoof steps and galloping. |
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