Everything you hear is a lie.

This article or really video, was about audio in film where how almost everything you hear was added later in production. The first example in the video was a scratch on the face. The mic didn't pick up what you, yourself would hear. Instead a Sound effect was added later. The main sound effects are broken up into 3 different categories.

Ambience
This is background noise. When filming and recording your footage. Make sure you get a recording of the background noise in your shot. This is important because it can sound weird if your ambiance is cut out when your shot changes.

Library Effects
These are pre-recorded sound effects that you can find on websites or other sources. These include gun shots, explosions, etc..

Foley
This is a sound effect that is recorded specifically for a certain element in a shot for a film.

Foley sound effects go back a long time. They started before they even really made movies. The first example of one was drummers performing for the actors to make effects, usually humorous in Vaudeville Productions. This is where the classic Rimshot comes from.  They where next used in broadcast radio productions. Before everyone had TV people had to listen to the radio. As boring as that sounds, somehow people back then got some enjoyment out of it. I know, I don't get it either. Voice actors back then did a whole lot more than just voice work. With the help of a few other crew members, they all helped to create sound effects live to give a better picture of whats going on into the listeners head. A good example was also in Saturday morning cartoons. Back then they relied on musical cues much more than today's cartoons. The musical cues went with the motion of the cartoons.

But perhaps the best example was in the 1920's when Universal was getting ready to realese  it's first Sound-Picture Film. They decided it was time to get into the Sound-Picture game but where having some trouble syncing up the audio to the visuals. That's when a guy named Jack Foley (That sounds Familiar) helped created a technique where they created the sound effects live as the movie was playing. This was pretty ground breaking for the time. Other studios tried replicating what Foley did and he even got a sound stage named after him, wow! Foley's techniques are still used to this day as well. In fact pretty much every feature film and TV show uses them. The creator of the video even showed it by making his own short film comprised entirely of Foley sound effects. It's pretty funny as well.

I Thought this article was very intriguing. At first I rolled my eyes because I saw the video was 15 minutes long and was the same guy from the other article who took way too long to explain things. But the whole video interested me greatly. I have been interested in sound effects for a really long time and it was cool to learn the history of it all. The only thing I have to say is they guy could have done a lot better on the video he made. Just watching it made me want to do so much more with it. One of my favorite directors Edgar Wright ( who I've talked about before on my blog ) is a great example of this. He makes simple actions such as the ones people where doing in the video have much more intense sounds to make a funny dramatic effect. It would especially have gone with the video too as the effects get increasingly louder as they go on. But otherwise pretty good article.