The Art of Foley

What is Foley?

• A studio at Warner Brothers

• The art of sound

• Weather

• A special filming technique that allows realism to influence our perception of film.

Who was Jack Foley

• The guy who invented adding sound in time with a motion picture

• A huge Hollywood producer

• A radio host who used sounds in his productions

• A film actor from the 1920's

Why are there different sounds for rain?

• Rain is a very complex sound that invokes the true emotion of nature into the mind of the listener.

• There are different amounts of rain in the world

• Rain can land on different surfaces

Why did she say that they have to make sounds "over the top"?

• To add to extreme realism

• Go big or go home!

• Because movies tell stories about characters that are bigger than life.

• Because their sounds have to be louder than the music and the dialohue in the film.