[Music] in Hollywood everything is magic and make-believe gloves with paper clips our dog paws even what you hear we’re storytellers with sound over here we have a feather duster used for bird bird wings we bring sound into the story and we can create any mood with that sound when you watch a film much of what you’re hearing was created from footsteps on a snowy path to a vicious thunderstorm weather is a really interesting thing to recreate on there make it exciting it depends on the elements that we’re using and how it’s filmed and what they want to hear here at the Warner Brothers lot Foley artists practice their craft and if they do their jobs right you won’t even notice people take sound for granted but you would miss it if it wasn’t there Folie is the art of sound it’s creating sounds in sync with what’s happening on the screen the art of Foley goes back to the old radio days where you would see the sound guys with their clumping with their coconuts this is what we use for horse hooves their plungers and we stuff them with cloth and a little tape and here we go Jack Foley came in and he thought if I do those sounds in sync with the picture I’ve just taken a whole step out Jack Foley’s legacy and sound began in the 1920s as talkies swept Hollywood ever since the reproduction of sound effects added to film in post-production is called the art of Foley a Foley stage consists of different surfaces this is walking on leaves or in a forest for snow what we normally use is regular place and and then to add to that sometimes you hear that familiar crunch which we use corn starch your ear hears snow but in actuality it’s in [Music] it’s almost like a prop house we have collected different things because everything here should make a sound here’s a classic squeaky hinge pinecones can be used for cracking ice you have the three people that are on the stage the mixer and the two Foley artists which it’s important that you have a team that’s cohesive you know something’s cracking popping I don’t know what it is [Music] sometimes it takes a little trial and error to see what works best we have a streamer that goes across the screen and when the streamer gets to the end that tells us when that sound should start it’s an interesting dance there’s really nothing that we can’t do here imagination wise right now we’re in the control room and it’s where I mix and I listen to them performing to the picture I try not to look at them because I really don’t want to see what they’re using I want to see how it sounds [Music] all sound is two elements hitting one another with rain if it’s hitting a puddle or if it’s hitting someone’s face that’s all gonna sound different so those are very specific little things that we have to watch and look at okay Mary Jo here we go wind is interesting because it’s usually what the wind is blowing through Alice is going to use the Batman cape to create the sails and I’m going to create the boat actually going through the water okay let’s go if we’re doing a boat going through wait we would use the big tub that we have to get that slapping sound or churning up the water a lot in the tub with our hands it’s a lot of sound like like a lot of things artistic is very subjective so I have to make that judgment call there’s a great moment when you get the perfect sound and they don’t always know it but I do how was that Mary Jo it sounded great when there are multiple weather elements involved we might do all the specific things first and then go back and do maybe a general sound we have a shot here of a hiker coming down the waterfall so I’m doing the sound of the carabiner and his rope and his equipment [Music] how’s that cool so I’m gonna play it back all together and see what we’ve got we really layer everything so the mixers can mix how they want to hear it and we do things also that are a little over-the-top because we have to fight with music sometimes dialogue but hopefully when you hear it at home it’ll sound just like it should be natural you [Music] in Hollywood everything is magic and make-believe gloves with paper clips our dog paws even what you hear we’re storytellers with sound over here we have a feather duster used for bird bird wings we bring sound into the story and we can create any mood with that sound when you watch a film much of what you’re hearing was created from footsteps on a snowy path to a vicious thunderstorm weather is a really interesting thing to recreate on there make it exciting it depends on the elements that we’re using and how it’s filmed and what they want to hear here at the Warner Brothers lot Foley artists practice their craft and if they do their jobs right you won’t even notice people take sound for granted but you would miss it if it wasn’t there Folie is the art of sound it’s creating sounds in sync with what’s happening on the screen the art of Foley goes back to the old radio days where you would see the sound guys with their clumping with their coconuts this is what we use for horse hooves their plungers and we stuff them with cloth and a little tape and here we go Jack Foley came in and he thought if I do those sounds in sync with the picture I’ve just taken a whole step out Jack Foley’s legacy and sound began in the 1920s as talkies swept Hollywood ever since the reproduction of sound effects added to film in post-production is called the art of Foley a Foley stage consists of different surfaces this is walking on leaves or in a forest for snow what we normally use is regular place and and then to add to that sometimes you hear that familiar crunch which we use corn starch your ear hears snow but in actuality it’s in [Music] it’s almost like a prop house we have collected different things because everything here should make a sound here’s a classic squeaky hinge pinecones can be used for cracking ice you have the three people that are on the stage the mixer and the two Foley artists which it’s important that you have a team that’s cohesive you know something’s cracking popping I don’t know what it is [Music] sometimes it takes a little trial and error to see what works best we have a streamer that goes across the screen and when the streamer gets to the end that tells us when that sound should start it’s an interesting dance there’s really nothing that we can’t do here imagination wise right now we’re in the control room and it’s where I mix and I listen to them performing to the picture I try not to look at them because I really don’t want to see what they’re using I want to see how it sounds [Music] all sound is two elements hitting one another with rain if it’s hitting a puddle or if it’s hitting someone’s face that’s all gonna sound different so those are very specific little things that we have to watch and look at okay Mary Jo here we go wind is interesting because it’s usually what the wind is blowing through Alice is going to use the Batman cape to create the sails and I’m going to create the boat actually going through the water okay let’s go if we’re doing a boat going through wait we would use the big tub that we have to get that slapping sound or churning up the water a lot in the tub with our hands it’s a lot of sound like like a lot of things artistic is very subjective so I have to make that judgment call there’s a great moment when you get the perfect sound and they don’t always know it but I do how was that Mary Jo it sounded great when there are multiple weather elements involved we might do all the specific things first and then go back and do maybe a general sound we have a shot here of a hiker coming down the waterfall so I’m doing the sound of the carabiner and his rope and his equipment [Music] how’s that cool so I’m gonna play it back all together and see what we’ve got we really layer everything so the mixers can mix how they want to hear it and we do things also that are a little over-the-top because we have to fight with music sometimes dialogue but hopefully when you hear it at home it’ll sound just like it should be natural you

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