Week 1 - Introducing Foley
Foley Effects
At the end of this module I will be able to recreate three minutes worth of sound effects for a scene from a film, otherwise known as a soundscape. Today I learnt that Foley is the recreation of everyday sounds, like footsteps for example, that are then added into films or videos. Throughout the module I will complete weekly tasks to improve my sound design.
We were given a brief history of 'Sound in Cinema' which I found very interesting because I didn't know much about how film scores were produced before some major development to technology. Before 1925, films were accompanied by an organist; as time went on, the photo-phone was produced - it passed sound through a beam of light.
Here is a diagram of how it works.
For the photo-phone to work, there must be an original source of sound that creates vibrations. The sun reflects off the vibrating mirror and produces fluctuating sunlight rays which are in time to the sound source; when the sunlight goes to the receiver, it produces a loud sound in the amplifier.
As a class, we watched a video clip that explained what foley is. In the video we saw two people in a recording studio, watching a scene and recreating or enhancing the sounds in the video. When creating foley sounds of somebody walking or moving you need to immerse yourself into the character and understand how they are feeling - are they angry? are they sad? these can affect the way the person moves and these details are important to know when doing foley effects.
At the end of this module I will be able to recreate three minutes worth of sound effects for a scene from a film, otherwise known as a soundscape. Today I learnt that Foley is the recreation of everyday sounds, like footsteps for example, that are then added into films or videos. Throughout the module I will complete weekly tasks to improve my sound design.
We were given a brief history of 'Sound in Cinema' which I found very interesting because I didn't know much about how film scores were produced before some major development to technology. Before 1925, films were accompanied by an organist; as time went on, the photo-phone was produced - it passed sound through a beam of light.
Here is a diagram of how it works.
As a class, we watched a video clip that explained what foley is. In the video we saw two people in a recording studio, watching a scene and recreating or enhancing the sounds in the video. When creating foley sounds of somebody walking or moving you need to immerse yourself into the character and understand how they are feeling - are they angry? are they sad? these can affect the way the person moves and these details are important to know when doing foley effects.
Adobe Audition
To kick off this module, I was introduced to the BBC Sound Archive, a large number of sound effects which was established in 1936. The web-page consists of over sixteen thousand sounds that have been recorded and stored over the years. Our first task was to create a mini soundscape on Adobe Audition, using the BBC Sound Archive sounds. I think this task was really helpful for me personally as I was able to re-familiarise myself with the software, as well as this I learnt about the different effects that I can use like reverb and distortion.
I used the cut and paste tool to create a repetition of clicking and shuffling sound effects, to this I added different beep sounds and I manipulated the reverb of the overall soundscape. I ended up creating a very interesting medley of sound effects which as a surreal tone to it. I believe it created a futuristic / robotic atmosphere and I was amazed by how easy it is to create something of this nature.
I uploaded this MP3 to my already existing SoundCloud account which is where I will be storing the rest of my work for this module.
Here is the link to the BBC Sound Archive Soundscape that I created.
https://soundcloud.com/natalia-compa/session-1-bbc-sound-archive
We were also reminded how to log into Siso and book out equipment which is what we'll be doing very frequently for the next few weeks and finally we were put into our groups for the presentations.
I uploaded this MP3 to my already existing SoundCloud account which is where I will be storing the rest of my work for this module.
Here is the link to the BBC Sound Archive Soundscape that I created.
https://soundcloud.com/natalia-compa/session-1-bbc-sound-archive
We were also reminded how to log into Siso and book out equipment which is what we'll be doing very frequently for the next few weeks and finally we were put into our groups for the presentations.
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