PREPARING TO WORK WITH SFX

1. Why do you think we use SFX’s in TV and Film productions?

Sound effects are used to create a story or emphasize a point.

2. What are the advantages of using SFX’s in TV and Film productions? What do they add to the overall production?

The advantages are that they make productions more realistic and this entitles the audience to believe that what is happening is real.

3. What are the disadvantages of using SFX’s in TV and Film productions?

If the sounds are over used it becomes unrealistic to the audience

4. What is the job description of a Foley artist?

A Foley Artist is the person who creates and performs replacement sound effects to be used with a picture these are recorded in a recording studio, such as footsteps, clothing and properties’ noises, paper movement, doors creaking, dogs scratching etc. They work under the direction of a Sound Editor and often use their own extensive collection of small props. They are the unseen actors who reproduce sounds, required when the original track is either unusable or completely replaced as in the case of foreign versions."

.Now use the internet to research how the following SFX’s might be made/recorded. Write this up in a blog post called ‘Recording SFX’s’.

1. Footsteps

2. Rain (the sound of)

A rain stick (carboardtube filled with beans)

3. A person punching another person

clapping or hitting your palm close to a mic,

4. 2 more sounds of your choice

F ire Cracking (potato chip) packets very slowly compressed with hands make a convincing crackling of fire.

Horse hoofs- Coconut halves