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The Craft of Cinema | Hollywood
How sound effects are really made
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(Image credit: Hyde Harper)

What does a snowman being impaled on an icicle sound like? And how is the noise
of Batman landing on a car bonnet recreated? A foley artist reveals her secrets.
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The jangle of car keys, a door slamming, the clatter of plates. Ordinary,
everyday sounds, which foley artist Alyson Dee Moore has to recreate in
extraordinary ways. “You may not know you’re hearing, but you’re hearing them,”
she says in a video revealing how she creates the sound effects in films like
The Matrix, The Dark Knight and Frozen.

Moore has been a foley artist for more than 30 years, painstakingly recreating
sound effects that are timed to match what’s happening on the screen. “You
shouldn’t notice it – it should just fit seamlessly.”

The video offers a glimpse inside Moore’s studio, which is “full of junk” –
scuffed shoes, piles of plant pots, crutches leaning against the wall and
shelves filled with coconut shells. And there’s an insight into the process of
making sounds like space helmets colliding (involving a pine cone) or knuckles
cracking (using uncooked lasagne sheets). As Moore’s mixer Mary Jo Lang
comments, “Foley is a unique kind of sound, because it’s bigger than life but it
still sounds like life”.

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