POST-PRODUCTION: Do You Foley Around With Man Or Machine?
POST-PRODUCTION THOUGHTS: Do You Foley Around With Man Or Machine? By: Roberto Cardenas Tech is ever advancing, but still ain’t perfect. Mics can’t pick up everything, so we still need foley to make up the sounds we miss. The question is…with the advancement of technology, do we still need foley artists (the human kind), or can we use digital foley to fill in the audio blanks? Foley artists have been crucial to television and movie making since the end of the silent picture era, when people like Jack Donovan Foley (name sound familiar?) created techniques to replicate the unheard sounds they saw in the “talking pictures.” Over the past couple decades, the innovation in microphone, audio recording and editing tech has given foley artists the tools to be more precise, creative and speedy with their work. But it is also giving them a run for their money. Now there are digital sound creation tools and digitally created sound libraries that film and tv makers a...