Most of us probably never notice the sound effects foley artists create for movies. They’re usually ambient sounds like footsteps, swishing cloth, or doors opening and closing, intended to fade into ...

Most video game studios, or at least the bigger ones, will have experience with Foley, a long-standing craft that revolves around creating cinematic sound effects using everyday objects. It’s nothing ...

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Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...

Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending thriller Inception was a big winner at the Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards, taking home two awards for best sound editing in the categories of sound ...

In the dead of the night, GV Prakash is trespassing. In Watchman (2019), the actor jumps up a wall, on to a metal gate and begins to climb down. He slips, and falls on a heap of leaves. The entire ...

Andrew Belletty, a senior lecturer in sound at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), reveals a few surprising things he has learned over a lifetime of working with sound. 1. Fruit ...

What would a scary movie be without the ominous creak of floorboards? Sound effects—called Foley—add crucial value to any film. “The challenge,” says Foley artist John Roesch, “is to create something ...