5 Tips to STEP UP Your Foley Game!

[@LemonPointSenior]

i'm three years into being a film major and i'm so sad it took me this long to find your channel! you break shit down so easily, you dont drag out your content to hit the over-10-minute mark, and you give the BEST ideas/tips to apply this stuff real-world!!!! thank you a million!!!

[@TheFilmLook]

Thank you for the support! Always appreciated :D

[@darlingtonojobo5061]

Every now and then it seems your voice is becoming like Tom Holland’s

[@e84hyq]

He also kinda looks like him too

[@chuai_man]

I fell down the rabbit hole of audio engineering and found myself here and MAN THIS IS SO COOL! I think I want to try this! Thank you so much for the awesome video and enlightening me to a whole new world and even a possible career opportunity!

[@TheFilmLook]

That's great to hear. Sound is a whole other world to filmmaking.

[@erikj345]

We did this for my senior project while receiving ny audio degree snd hsnds diwn one of the most fun snd memorable experiences. Really makes you appreciate the work

[@KindDas]

Great video! what microphone did you use to record the foley?

[@mrnobody7530]

Fantastic video! Thank you

[@ruix]

I will try this on my game thanks !

[@valentinabucibattorti9813]

I am struggling to create the sound for soap bubbles, help!!!

[@dcoop1422]

when i was a teen twenty odd yrs ago i used to make my own sound effect recordings using a hi net md minidisc unit with a sony lapel mic. awesome sound fully portable. they are still raw and useable files. never knew there was a big term to describe it and people made little pits called foley boxes. strange.

[@oielbeats3288]

please do a review and test on tascam dr-07x pleeeaasseeeeee

[@BrianMarcWhittaker]

Thank you. At what decibel level should the audio be recorded?

[@TheFilmLook]

It really all depends on the environment and the source of the sound. I like to record things "warm", so it hits the mid-orange on a decibel metre, somewhere between -15 and -6. This gives you a nice clean loud recording with a little bit of room encase the sound raises all of a sudden.

[@gino3286]

Thank you so much for this very interesting video. May i ask which could be a decent portable recording device to start with some amateurial recordings of natural sounds ? Thanks a lot. Kind regards, gino

[@TheFilmLook]

The zoom h1 is probably the most entry-level audio recorder I would recommend. I previously used it and thought it was stellar for the price. If you are looking to use XLR microphones, however, I previously owned the Tascam DR-40 and loved it! Another option would be looking into Zoom recorders, such as the H5n. They get a bit more pricey, but the build quality goes up a lot with these models.

[@gino3286]

@@TheFilmLook hi thank you so much for the very kind and helpful advice I will start cheap I have not big needs of high end quality sound The zoom h1n looks very nice Kind regards gino

[@versatile1684]

Here you completely re recorded the audio as there was no dialogues.But what happens if there was dialogues? Then we have to use some sound created by the charecter while giving dialogues as both of them are baked together and are impossible to unbake.. I have watched another video of your channel where you were discussing how to reduce sound produced by the actors while giving dialogues like adding tape beneath the shoe and etc.But this trick will not work great here because the sound created by the charecters are very loud..So how to mix foley in this type of situation where actors are delivering dialogues and creating loud sound simultaneously?

[@TheFilmLook]

If you are recording dialogue with a shotgun microphone, the dialogue will be a lot louder than any movement sound recorded. Obviously, with a scene being played out, there will be some bi-product foley recorded in the dialogue takes. This is actually great because it means when you DO record your foley, you have a sync point to add it back in. If we could have 10 invisible microphones all picking up every sound individually, this is how it would be done. Re-recording the foley is the next best way of doing this. On our most recent short Sixty Seconds, there was clothing movement within the dialogue takes. They were just very quiet. With some stand-alone clothing movement, we can decide how loud they should be. It's all about control.

[@versatile1684]

@@TheFilmLook Thanks (again*2) for replying. I really appreciate it man. I get it. The foley recorded and mixed will always be louder and clearer than than the by product foley captured during the dialogue takes..

[@audiotube2938]

What program did you use man ?

[@TheFilmLook]

For all of our audio work we use Adobe Audition.

[@satyamjhacoding2726]

I have not enough money buy good camera so what can i do

[@TheFilmLook]

The best place to start is with a mobile phone. Pretty much ever smartphone these days has a decent camera to start making films. I'd begin there!

[@thephoebesantos]

😮❤️

[@TheFilmLook]

😎

[@jesusmoisescarodelamora584]

thanks tom holland

[@mcdrobert]

1:35, I can see my house from here!!

[@AndresArosemena]

Great tips, thanks for sharing them.

[@TheFilmLook]

Cheers Andres!

[@DanielEarl]

Guys! Your content on audio and foley has been incredible, best on the platform IMO. Thanks so much

[@TheFilmLook]

Cheers Daniel! Appreciate the support. We have plenty more audio episodes we want to make, so stay tuned!

[@YoungBlaze]

what the hell, who is this one person who keeps giving a Thumbsdown on your vids, these are GEMS you are dropping

[@spyrax370]

Great tips! :D I do have a question, though: what sort of microphone do you need to use for foley sound design? I get your mic looks like a shotgun type, but does it "have" to be a lobar polar pattern or will a supercardioid or hypercardioid one do? (bear in mind that I am thinking from a budget perspective. 😅)

[@nubivagant3068]

I never knew Tom Holland could give such great tips on Foley.

[@senncer]

Which model of Rode mic is that?

[@anonymouxx9261]

I love film making :D can't wait to actually get into it... And speaking of Foley art ... Even tho we don't do voices for it... U can actually do tom Holland's voice :D no1 will ever know

[@GenesisMoss]

Working on my submission for rode reel and this is great stuff!

[@ScribblebytesWorldwide]

Is that a "northern" accent? I love it.

[@lucastefanvasileberde6656]

Great tips. Now, I shall go over my foley once again, to add more detail! Thanks!

[@TheFilmLook]

Awesome! Looking forward to seeing your film. Drop us a message when it is released!

[@JayKSilver]

Thanks Peter

[@oscarashford9924]

sounds good

[@worm6820]

1:55 pogo?

[@LanceSummer]

What is the boom pole operator in the forrest plugging his shotgun microphone into? Awesome videos man

[@TheFilmLook]

We use an audio recorder to capture the sound. Ours is a Tascam DR-70d: geni.us/o5Bz

[@satyamjhacoding2726]

Nice bro brother

[@Pinkmagnum]

Foots are the hardest to do.

[@TheFilmLook]

They really are! Footstep foley is a dark art for sure!

[@sonofpodolia123]

Nice birds in the winter/ late autumn forest:) motorway was great)

[@Pinkmagnum]

How to sync correctly???

[@TheFilmLook]

We have a video on that. This one is about footsteps, but the action is the same: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKnEeY2De5Z3f5I

[@Pinkmagnum]

@@TheFilmLook thanks a lot

[@whatabouttheearth]

Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell Foley is the powerhouse of the screen

[@TaukeJambu]

hi how can i contact you

[@generalminusarchives1399]

You're a legend mate, this helped me so much for my short movies, thanks a bunch!

[@TheFilmLook]

No problem! Glad we can help!

[@ajryangameaudio]

This is awesome, thank you!

[@brainwasher3742]

This is a great video.

[@satyamjhacoding2726]

Im from india

[@prestongarcia2286]

I’m young right now but my dream is to become a foley artist and I was wondering if you have any college recommendations

[@TheFilmLook]

Sadly we don't sorry.

[@zakariaabed3593]

Pls what mic was that ?

[@TheFilmLook]

We use the Rode NTG3: geni.us/4hex

[@JustOneGuyProductions]

Got selected to edit my colleges big film festival feature and boy did I need this lol

[@TheFilmLook]

Nice! Best of luck with the edit!

[@henzzzz9370]

How do you record foley directly on video? What software do you use?

[@TheFilmLook]

For the majority of our foley recording, we actually capture it separately. So we will have a copy of the film playing on a laptop, and will simply hit record on the audio record and mimick the movement. For fine tuning the sync, we sometimes export a version of the film which has some beeps at the start, that we can capture them and sync it all up. Very similar to how a clapperboard works.

[@bluefilmsltd]

I like you dudes!!

[@TheFilmLook]

We like you!

[@minukaasel]

Thanks!!

[@TheFilmLook]

No problem!