Episode 40: Learn to Create Your Own Sound Effects with Foley [Discussion]

[xfuuey]

Learn some of the many uses of Foley, and see the conclusion to the Silent Film!

Watch or download this episode here

[masterevilace]

I found two errors in this one...
"Good lord his been shot!"

and later in the episode there is a Revision3 logo overlaid another Revision3 logo.

[janderson91]

Great episode guys!

Those punching sounds really sounded great.

[pickledham]

great sound effects guys. never knew celery could could that good. Guess its all in your head. If your watching a guy getting punched and hear celery then it sounds the same.
so a lot of creativity and imagination goes into filming. you guys are so creative

if you look close i think you can see the camera equipment on the side of the black car. just after emily lolly pop scene.

I like the eps that Emilly is in. If I'm ever in trouble I want her on my side. here's a big lolly pop. yes thats a bribe. hahaha Is she a gun expert? seriously, I think its is great for kids to learn to use a gun at an early age. my cousin was shooting magnum at age 6. now hes 16 and an expert marksman

glad i found filmriot on my Roku player

pickledham on twitter

[allupons]

Great job! The beginning to this episode is completely hysterical, and the tutorial information was excellent. Great, great job on this one.

[metallicnitro]

Loved the silent film, and the sound segments. The only think I don't like about watching the show is that I really get all these ideas to start doing my own short films or just wanting to mess around with some video but I don't have any video equipment (or money to buy it).

Emily is probably my favorite. She's so adorable and so bad-ass . She has some real talent; maybe soon she'll be doing bigger things.

[cfen]

Hey friends on film riot,

If you guys will let me I'd like to tell you about my experience with Foley and ADR. It was on my short film called "A**holes" shot in 2000 with some friends. At that time I had a good camera and some lights mostly homemade and a good non-linear editor. But I didn't have a good microphone. All we had was a P.A or omnidirectional microphone but used it in hopes to getting a good guide track. And that's pretty much what we got a guide track. Well anyway, I edited it down to the final version and in about a year after that I was able to afford a good shotgun mic. At that time there was only version 3 of Final Cut Pro. Now Final Cut Pro 3 was the first version with the voice over function. You were supposed to be able to use a USB mic and be able to instantly record to the timeline but it did not sound very good. So this is what we wound up doing, working on the dialogue first or ADR as they call it, I used the USB mic to record to timeline so that we can hear the performance and see the lips sync instantly. Okay, alongside the USB mic I had the regular shotgun mic recording through a mixer into my Canon XL camera onto the regular mini DV tape making sure to carefully name each take. Then I could capture the sound only from the mini DV tape and replace the USB mic sound on the timeline with the better quality sound of the shotgun mic. With the voice over program I was able to isolate the specific dialogue and provide a TV picture for the actors to watch and hear the dialogue for them to sync to, worked out quite well. I pretty much did the Foley elements in the picture the same way, isolating the specific bits and using the TV to watch the timing, so we could sync it all up on the timelime later. The problems that I had was trying to get good ambient sound that I liked which I never did and footsteps also I never did. So, I just left them out which probably wasn't a very good idea. Well here's a link to the short hope you enjoy it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaNrVvkgDeU

or

http://www.box.net/shared/static/gheultotsm.mov