Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How do you convey the presence or someone or something in a scene without the audience actually seeing it? That's the special ...

Foley assistants craft realistic film audio effects through precise studio work, writes Academy of Sound Engineering lecturer SEAN RADFORD. The post Behind the scenes of sound appeared first on Gadget ...

Following is a transcript of the video: [cymbals softly ringing] Narrator: Ah, the northern lights. Beautiful to see...and hear? [wind chimes gently ringing] The thing is, the northern lights don't ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Tara Blume: Every Foley stage probably has a machete. I'm not sure that every Foley artist actually has a machete at their house... [laughs] Joe Avella: So, to ...

In 1927, the first talkie, called The Jazz Singer, swept the nation and revolutionized movies. Unfortunately, Universal Studios didn’t get the memo — they’d just completed Show Boat, which was to be a ...

What does decapitation sound like? How about a demon birth? Foley artists explain just how difficult it is to engineer the sounds of horror. Photo: Gabor Kotschy / A24 People often ask Foley artist ...

"There's a huge difference between listening and hearing." If you're a movie geek or a filmmaker, you know that foley artists an an important part of the filmmaking process. These people work in ...

Foley artists create the sounds of a character's movements and interactions with the world that you hear in movies. Sometimes they need to experiment and get extra creative to find an object that ...

It seems that there are few jobs left that computers can’t edge into somehow. A US team has got a computer to match sounds with silent video to an impressively efficient degree. It’s a complicated ...

The sound team behind "Dragon Tattoo," "Inception" and "The Dark Knight" trilogy reveals that Fincher is "very particular about shoes and their sounds" in a presentation at USC. By Mia Galuppo Jay ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We take a closer look at the subtle ways horror movies use sound to make your mind play tricks on you. We visited Alchemy Post ...