Holey Foley | Sound Design at Earth Touch 

I honestly didn't know they used foley in docs o___o

You can only get true sound by hearing and not hearing. I am going blind and hear a natural beat in nature and nothing else feels quit as good! I understand the ambiance as I worked in Los Angeles. You mentioned Arnold , I was in the Terminator and after watching the the movie I saw the way sound was instrumental in the end product.

I never realized there was that much sound desien behind documentaries !

Props to Richard Hinton on his excellent foley work for Planet Earth II.

Awesome! Nature doco Foley is always so creative, love it

I always find these fascinating. These people, behind the scenes, really ought to receive more credit than they do. Keep up the great work, all of you who help build the beauty of production!

So interesting. I Normally work with audio and music in video games. Film is so inspirering. It's the same audio process, but still a whole other world! :)

His Expressions at 1:45 ... Hahahaha...!! So True..!

Haha 3.46, the relief on the camera man's face!

amazing, finally i have found some ppl that take sound serious, if not, the recource of EVERYTHING

The exaggeration might be a bit too much here for some tastes (i.e super close grass crunching), but he clearly describes why sound replacement is needed generally. When the narrator is informing of what's happening and setting up the scene, having distracting and incorrect sound is going to pull a lot of people out of the moment. Imagine if you heard all of the background banter of the film crew and tourists (as he shows here) when trying to get a sense of the danger a lioness poses to prey when in hunting mode. It will just jar and it isn't natural to hear all of that human activity. Also bound by the limitations of the time of day where they were able to capture shots, having an erratic switching of ambience feels jumpy. I personally much prefer the concept that documentary is an interpretation of what happens as best as they could capture on the day (or days) of filming. There's plenty of real-life human interaction from peoples camera-phone films on youtube, this is about a descriptive presentation of nature. If they can capture more usable audio in the moment - awesome! but it's going to be extremely difficult to do that for your average documentary show I'm sure.

Thank you very much guys for this video and you hard work! Appreciated! - Happy New Year!

This just completely opened my eyes. i also did some foley without even knowing

cheers guys, brilliant video this.

Very professional video ,good

Fantastic video! Thank you for producing and sharing this!

I didn't understood fully but some what I understood about nature sounds but really u people are really great

Camera man absolutely shitting himself in front of the lioness 😂 She was beautiful!

6:50 "better get ma lunch"

That was amazing! Loved it...

ALL IS FAKE AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH iiiiiiii love it ! very well done and, you are the sound of the leopard breathing, wouaw !

AWESOME VIDEO! Loved to see all the process

God damn it... RU-vid won't stop buffering

my whole life was a lie

amazing!!!

love it!!!!!!!!!!!

Muito bom!!!

Mind blown

amazing! :)

Great vid

Hi, great video. Can you tell me which surround microphone and recording device you are using ?

Really Interesting! ;)

I also follow Noisy Sid (Sid Lieberman), a foley guy. I love this stuff.

amazing

🙂I was watching blue planet on BBC earth few hours ago without knowing all this

Hey! Wich kind of surround mic did you guys use to record those ambiences? Thx!

Zer awa mad skarn midden , Ayyuz nnsen........!!!

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Next part please...

How do you make an orange decaying sound?

In the past I had learnt what moves on screen has to have sound associated...

You can tell that they added a fake burnt-in timecode for show. Any footage under an hour is reserved for identifying the shot, directors notes etc. Anything going towards the final cut begins at 01:00:00:00, and that is an industry standard for both film and broadcast. And about the on-set microphones, it sounds like they're using cardioid microphones instead of shotgun. It would explain the amount of bleed they get.

Good straff

i will never watch animal planet again without thinking is this the animal breeding or a man behind a mic

More episodes?

nice

Lol it's a kind of deception, isn't it? :)

What kind of mic / recording device was that at 2:07

420 is at 4:25

This felt like learning about santa 😔

I want to be real space sound designer!

"Film Vehicle. Do Not Follow. Foul smell lingers. Driver needs a change."

So. Fucking. Cool.

3:45 hahahaha

To be more accurate, the 1920s did not add Foley because the mics did not pic up sound. There was no sound in the 1920s, until The Jazz Singer, so this explanation is not correct. My book, The Foley Grail, gives the correct history of how Foley began.

I thought they would put bananas in the tailpipe..

Anyone else read nick Foley?

Was the sound of music needed as well?! Sick of hearing music in every damn video!

I feel like my whole life has been a lie 😩😩. Why do they want to fake noise of a documentary. Kinda takes the authenticity out of it!

I can understand using this stuff in films and movies, but in real-life documentaries i'd rather just hear the real sound, not fake sound. the whole point of things like wildlife documentaries is to capture everything as it is, even if the sound does sound a little off, its real, and thats the point.

never use guitars and whistling when trying to be an audio expert

Why mess up the foley with shitty music??

their work really needs creativity. imagine movies without their help, it may be boring af

oh man thats mean i hear fake sound at NatGeo wild and animal planet....