Foley Sound Project

https://youtu.be/rkQ2J5k8Gm4

This sound project was a really fun and creative experience. As the project was introduced, I was not sure how this would be possible creating all these sounds and being able to tell such a story for the classmates to figure out. We quickly came up with an idea but we had trouble figuring out how we were going to create our main sound of the scene. The idea of sucking through a straw was brought up but it wasn’t the exact sound we needed. We then asked one of our friends that we saw in the hallway to help us out and he created the perfect sound with his mouth, for the scene. Sounds like footsteps and background chatter were really easy to record and, one of my favorite parts was the keys and heard footsteps, to give the idea of the dean walking into the bathroom. Just making the footsteps louder and adding keys really changed the effect and made you really be able to tell what was happening in the scene and what characters may have been involved. I think we did a good job at editing everything all together also by layering and fading out the sounds to make the scene sound the most realistic. The hardest sound to make was the handcuffs at the end and we were really stumped on how to make that sound perfect. We tried multiple techniques using the locks and lockers around our school and we finally got the idea to close two locks right after one another. This created a sound of possibly handcuffs that we were hoping for. Overall this project was a fun learning experience and I am better able to understand what foley sounds are and how sounds can be created artificially to make something sound like another.