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- Please introduce yourself.
I'm Jeroen Nadorp and working at Bob Kommer Sound Studios in The Netherlands.
I do the sound design for series, films and features.
- What means 'Foley'?
The name 'Foley' comes originally from a person called Jack Foley.
He was an American, travelling in the 30's en 40's from studio to studio with a suitcase full of props to recreate sounds in sync to the picture.
He was so well-knowned that this proces is named after him.
- How do you prepare a foley-recording session?
Before we start, we look-thru the whole film to see what physical props we need.
We have a vast amount of props for the most common sound effects.
Footsteps on stone... rustling of leaves... those are the simple things.
But sometimes we need something special. Then we start looking at our attic or we buy things at a jumble sale.
So it's always wise to prepare things and not just start recording in the wild.
But even if you prepare your session, it's still possible that difficult effects are easy to do and vice versa.
There is always some trial and error to achieve the best results.
When you have found the best prop....how do you record this?
We determine the spot and the length of the part we want to work on and take that as a little 'project'.
During a loop-playback of that part, we try to achieve the sound plus timing we like to hear.
Wich type of microphone do we need... how far from the microphone...
Some sound effects sound completely different if using another type of microphone.
After some rehearsal runs, I got the perfect timing in my head.
Then we start a loop-recording and after two of three times most of the time it's perfect.
If the director agrees with that, we move on to the next scene.
Home many people are involved during such foley-session?
Two or three.
The director is there....but not always. But ofcourse we prefer his presence.
The foley artist (me)...
... and the recording sound engineer.
Together with the director, he determines on-line the destructive EQ filtering and compression.
On-the-fly filtering makes it easier to judge the created sound effect and to keep it that way.
- When you look (listen) to the finished movie, how does that feel?
When we sit down at the premiere...weeks or months after the final surround mix...
... the weird experience is then, that everything fits and feels natural!