Foleying is the art of being able to create sounds with objects other than what they should actually made by, such as coconuts hitting on sand for horse steps.
Some foleying machines have to be handmade but other some foleying objects can be found in shops they purvey percussion instruments. Any object from anywhere can be used to make an alternative sound.
Here are some examples of basic foley kit:
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| wind machine |
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| rain box |
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| marching men object. |
Wind machine: A sheet of canvas over a revolving drum of wooden slats. The fierceness of the wind is determined by the speed of the revolution. The drum it turned unevenly, for wind never blows at a consistent speed. Adjusting the tension of the canvas as its free end can also alter the sound.
Rain box: 2 wooden boxes 6’x6”x6”, the floors of which are studded with nails hammered up from the outside. Dried peas inside, the two boxes are then see-sawed to create the sound of rain.
Marching men: identical wooden pegs fastened to a frame at the top by flexible or elastic bands, so the pegs hand down, when held by the frame and plopped rhythmically on a hard surface.
The bat and melon ploy: for head traumas they use a melon, when hit hard with a baseball bat or a mallet when you need to bash in somebody's skull. In live performance, a watermelon is more visually impressive than any other kind.
They use foleying because it is allows you to add in diagetic sounds after you have filmed the scene because some diagetic sounds are louder than the voices, or the sound the director/writer wants you to hear.
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