Foley

A primary technique of sound design is foley. Named after it's creator Jack Donovan Foley it is the practice of recording sound effects to be added on to a film in post production as a way of creating a more full sounding world in film. A classic example of this is the recording of clapping coconuts to make the sound of a horse galloping.

When making sounds for Exercise 1 I have used foley extensively. During the scene the character flips through stacks of money in which he finds a tracking device. For part of this I used pieces of paper around the size of dollars and tried to flip through them in as similar way as the character that I could. The image shows the Sennheiser 416 microphone on a stand set up to record this sound effect.