Cool video showing Foley
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A bit old school.... these days they tend to build it up FX by FX and track by track rather than scene by scene....
http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/watch/15819988/hollywood-gone-bush/
http://www.feetnframes.com.au/
http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/watch/15819988/hollywood-gone-bush/
http://www.feetnframes.com.au/
Noiz2
Sound Ninja
Kind of what I was thinking. Did they ever do all of that in Foley or is this just more Hollywood puff piece adding to the "mystery" of sound. IF this is real then it must be in the way before digital era. THings like the door would almost never be done in Foley today. The feet yes, but all the other stuff would at least have been broken down and recorded separately so that it could be mixed.
I'm suspicious because Sound Ideas is behind it so it's a marketing video not an actual documentary. Also I've never seen Foley artists in long underwear. Bicycle shorts yes, but that doesn't look as "interesting".
The DVD that comes with The Foley Grail is much more what I have seen, and really good.
I'm suspicious because Sound Ideas is behind it so it's a marketing video not an actual documentary. Also I've never seen Foley artists in long underwear. Bicycle shorts yes, but that doesn't look as "interesting".
The DVD that comes with The Foley Grail is much more what I have seen, and really good.
In the old days, this is what Foley looked like. I've been on Foley stages and seen the best work, and they do tend to break it down into smaller bits, rather than handling so much at once, but due to the vintage of the video it seems to be this is way before the digital era when endless tracks were not available.
Noiz2
Sound Ninja
Maybe, though it only looks like the 70's and Foley was generally done on 2" tape so even then there was 24 tracks that Foley could do in sync.
and track counts were not that different, the highest now is a lot more but the average hasn't changed a huge amount. What has changed is how many tracks show up at the final mix as opposed to being premixed. But even a relatively small machine room like the one at Fantasy had thirty or so dubbers, each capable of running two six track reels plus the 24 track 2" machine for the Foley. So you could push 200 tracks if you were crazy enough. Until the 2000's, about, the digital in post was all on the editing side. The proTools sessions would be premixed onto six track premixes and then all of those units would go to the final mix where you would have an army of folks hanging the reels up and getting them locked in sync.
But ? I don't know anyone who worked then in Foley. I do suspect that if you go far enough back it was closer to this than the more surgical work done today. But I suspect that transition happened with magnetic tape, so more like the 50's.
Then again maybe I'm misplacing the video and it was from the 50's. The Sound Ideas is what makes me doubt the age but?
and track counts were not that different, the highest now is a lot more but the average hasn't changed a huge amount. What has changed is how many tracks show up at the final mix as opposed to being premixed. But even a relatively small machine room like the one at Fantasy had thirty or so dubbers, each capable of running two six track reels plus the 24 track 2" machine for the Foley. So you could push 200 tracks if you were crazy enough. Until the 2000's, about, the digital in post was all on the editing side. The proTools sessions would be premixed onto six track premixes and then all of those units would go to the final mix where you would have an army of folks hanging the reels up and getting them locked in sync.
But ? I don't know anyone who worked then in Foley. I do suspect that if you go far enough back it was closer to this than the more surgical work done today. But I suspect that transition happened with magnetic tape, so more like the 50's.
Then again maybe I'm misplacing the video and it was from the 50's. The Sound Ideas is what makes me doubt the age but?