For my audio project Im going to replace all the sound from the George Melies film ‘The Man With The Rubber Head’. I will mute the soundtrack and record individual sounds and cut them together in Adobe Audition cc.

I started with a little secondary research into what foley sound is and found this;

According to Sonnenschen “Foley sounds are primarily those created to accompany the noisemaking movement of actors in real time. Even if footsteps, coffee cup clinking, or squeaky leather chairs were recorded during the shoot , the standard practice is to replace them all in the Foley room for the sake of uniformity and ability to isolate these sounds from the dialogue” (page 40, 2001)

I went through the video and noted down all the sounds ill need to get and when they occur in the film.

Sounds I need

  • Room tone – throughout
  • Water filling up – 00:06
  • 5 steps – 00:07
  • Picking up bottle – 00:10
  • Pouring liquid in glass bottle – 00:10
  • Putting bottle down – 00:12
  • Screw lid on bottle – 00:13
  • Pick bottles up together – 00:13
  • Pick stool up – 00:14
  • 3 steps on concrete – 00:14
  • Puts stool down – 00:16
  • Puts bottle down – 00:17
  • 3 steps on concrete – 00:19
  • Large wooden doors open – 00:20
  • Wooden table scrapes on floor – 00:21
  • Picks up table – 00:22
  • 6 steps on concrete – 00:22
  • Puts wooden table down – 00:25
  • Scrapes wooden table on floor – 00:25
  • 3 steps on concrete – 00:27
  • 3 steps on concrete – 00:29
  • Place small wooden table on large wooden table – 00:32
  • Turns valve lever on and off quickly – 00:33
  • Pulls head out of the box – 00:40
  • Puts wooden stool down – 00:45
  • Throws cap on floor – 00:47
  • Slaps knee then claps – 00:49
  • 3 steps on concrete – 00:54
  • 3 steps on concrete – 00:57
  • Places bellows on floor and squeezes them 4 times – 00:59
  • 10 pumps of bellows – 01:08
  • 8 pumps of the bellows – 01:20
  • Hand hits the bellows – 01:25
  • Turns air valve off – 01:26
  • Shuffles on stool – 01:27
  • Puts bellows down – 01:28
  • Sits down – 01:30
  • Stamps one foot down – 01:31
  • Turns air valve – 01:41
  • Stamps on floor several times in excitement – 01:40
  • Moves back on chair – 01:40
  • Turns air valve – 01:41
  • Stamps on floor – 01:43
  • Head deflating – 01:42
  • Stamps on floor – 01:48
  • Stands up – 01:48
  • 4 steps on concrete – 01:49
  • Opens door – 01:51
  • 4 subtle steps x 2 people – 01:52
  • 3 subtle steps – 01:56
  • Sits on chair – 01:58
  • Puts bellows in valve – 01:58
  • 4 pumps on the bellows – 02:00
  • Stands up 02:03
  • Shuffling noises x2 people – 02:04
  • Stumbles on chair – 02:06
  • 14 pumps on bellows – 02:06
  • Head explosion – 02:15
  • 10 shuffling steps – 02:07
  • Table chairs and people falling over – 02:16
  • 2 people stand up – 02:19
  • 3 steps fast – 02:20
  • Thrown through a door – 02:22
  • Kicks the door – 02:23
  • 3 steps – 02:25
  • 4 shuffling steps – 02:26

 

What will be difficult to get?

  1. How to make the head getting bigger sound
  2. How to make the sound of the head blowing
  3. Creaking door
  4. Throwing someone through a door
  5. The bellows
  6. Deflating head
  7. The squeaking of the lever on the valve