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Many of the sounds you hear in nature documentaries are not actually the real ones recorded in the wild. That might be because the sounds are too difficult to actually record in the wild or because making up or exaggerating sounds makes for a better viewing experience. These sounds are done by somebody like Foley artist Richard Hinton for Films at 59. He has worked on series like "Planet Earth II," "Frozen Planet," Netflix's "Our Planet," and Disney's "Bears." While a spider is normally too small for a human to hear, the TV series "The Hunt" contained close-up shots of spiders. So Richard played around with a slinky to make the sounds of a web launching. Meanwhile, new film equipment has allowed for time lapses that portray a plant sprouting out of the ground. To show mushrooms growing in "Planet Earth II," Richard stretched out strips of leather. And for something like lava flowing across the ground, he moved a boulder around some rocks. He has even had to do sound for the northern lights, which don't actually make noise. He gave them a reflective quality by banging two cymbals.
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@DarthHater100 3 года назад

Annoying how they play stupid music over it so we can't really hear the sound effects they're referring to.

@DarthHater100 3 года назад

@ᴡɪɴᴛᴇʀᴍᴜᴛᴇ _ I couldn't understand a thing you just said.

@DarthHater100 3 года назад

@ᴡɪɴᴛᴇʀᴍᴜᴛᴇ _ No, it's me too.

@AlexTheDonut 3 года назад

@micaelcraftero 3 года назад

That's because you can basically 'steal' their sfx

@ThatBugBehindYou 3 года назад

In other words, a perfect replica of actual documentaries.

@thejojobaggins 2 года назад

*Before watching this:* I love the sound of the ocean. *After watching this:* I love the sound of magnetic tape being swished around in a tub of water.

@clanmccroneartist6049 Год назад

I mean as a fine art and photography degree holder I can tell you that all recording methods, visual and audio, are fake, even when they aren’t, it’s clever tricks of technology, engineering, physics, sometimes even chemistry, etc, if any of it were in fact real then artists, photographers, camera people and sound recordists would be actual magicians with real-life whiz-bang D&D magic, which we’re not, we’re more akin to the guy with the rabbit in his hat at the party, it’s tricks to achieve a desired effect, and it is so easy to fake even back in the 19th-century it was so easy to fake if you knew how

@isitfashion 3 года назад

everything is a lie I want a brain refund

@asian6oy 3 года назад

A BRAIN REFUND OMG mood

@mariolopez9120 3 года назад

Me too lol I’m so upset lol

@johntitor1054 3 года назад

Unfortunately we couldn’t find one

@kylestrainspotting1997 3 года назад

Here you go a handgun you know what to do

@primotrez 2 года назад

Disney too

@aureljax 3 года назад

I'm feeling like a kid that's just learned Santa doesn't exist 😥 They are probably the most underrated workers in entrainement industry!!

@thewhitewolf58 3 года назад

You know that they do the same in movies and tv because the mics are meant for actors lines not the random shit in the scene

@aureljax 3 года назад

@@thewhitewolf58 I knew for movies/tv shows. Just that I didn't about documentaries also 😉

@gunlyte4661 3 года назад

I guess being a Sound Effect designer is actually kinda fun.

@DiamondWorldYoutube 3 года назад

Yeah he does

@Lion-O-Richie2040 3 года назад

Even as a kid, if you thought Santa was real then you weren’t that bright. Sussed that at 4 years old. A man in a fake beard you only see in malls etc and never delivering presents on sleigh pulled by reindeer isn’t going to fool anyone with their own mind. You must’ve never questioned as a kid. Guess what else isn’t real? MONEY!

@philgamer_309 3 года назад

The sounds were fake all along But this mans job is quite unique

@SallyM 3 года назад

This is why I have trust issues

@abhinayanando3318 3 года назад

lmaooo😭

@adamhasny8148 3 года назад

For some reason this is heartbreaking. Okay, the northern lights and flowers i get it!.. BUT the underwater shots?? I've been lied in my whole life???

@kishascape Год назад

It’s pretty obvious to anyone with a grain of a sense.

@AB-ft7ng Год назад

@@kishascape Why be so rude? It takes less effort to not comment at all than to try to insult others. It’s not obvious. I agree it ruins some of the magic of documentaries.

@LordVader1094 Год назад

@@AB-ft7ng It definitely is obvious if you pay attention. Cope.

@EternamDoov Год назад

You didn't figure this out by yourself? Honestly embarrassing

@asian6oy 3 года назад

Wow, I feel cheated… 😐

@teenmonster8667 3 года назад

Same 😔

@savanaho7687 3 года назад

😶

@EternamDoov Год назад

"the Northern lights don't make a sound but when you see this clip you don't think about it" Literally no one thinks that the cymbal noises are made by the lights...

@GangMilk222 10 месяцев назад

My thoughts exactly

@dwservingHim 2 года назад

Just so everyone knows, Macro lenses aren't for long distances (1:13). Telephoto lenses are for long distance and macro lenses are for extremely close-up. Some macro lenses can still be used to shoot a distant subject, but not typically with a large amount of 'zoom'. A pretty blatant mistake by Insider, but everything else in the video and the world of foley is accurate.

@kishascape Год назад

Stupid commentator scripting for sure.

@extendedblundering Год назад

I was coming down to the comments to say exactly this

@friturass 3 года назад

Macro lenses are actually used for filming something really close.

@haitex6296 3 года назад

Omg 😳 No way

@huckleberryhuckle9934 3 года назад

I was about to say

@chry8841 3 года назад

Thx someone noted

@1001Hobbies 2 года назад

I found your comment after making my own. Yes, I cringed too.

@Aaooee 3 месяца назад

I caught that. The word they wanted is "telephoto." Insider needs better editors/fact-checkers.

@EasyKiwi111 3 года назад

I feel like my whole life’s been a lie...

@jepjep7373 3 года назад

Big respect to foley artists. Without them, every movies/shows we watch are complete bland.

@kasyfi5546 3 года назад

Yeah! They are really creative on providing those sounds

@unbanned6175 Год назад

Nah idk, they fake everything

@wetube6513 Год назад

@@unbanned6175 Try putting a mic right beside a lion hunting a buffalo then.

@tsgillespiejr Год назад

Right? Hope it's a high-paying profession. They deserve it.

@vargasbasti 8 месяцев назад

Truer one could say

@geminitaurus8693 3 года назад

That audio at the beginning for the northern lights was stupid af

@randoml97 Год назад

I don't think anyone ever really believed that one like the underwater stuff. I always thought of it as more of a soundtrack or embellishment

@carsonroyal7948 3 года назад

Honestly if I heard that cymbal sliding while watching the aurora borealis, I would instantly question it. Aswell as a slinky going "Bing Bing Bing Bing Bing bing" would never convince me of the sound of a streamline web shooting.

@chee8572 2 года назад

I don’t think it’s supposed to convince you, most rational adults understand air doesn’t make metallic sounds..

@johnmcnally7812 3 года назад

Surely you'd use a telephoto lens for shooting across a valley? I thought macro lenses were for things like extreme close ups on bugs and stuff.

@theryaner 3 года назад

yup.

@harjotdhanota361 3 года назад

Yeah they got that wrong lol

@yashpashar4758 3 года назад

Finally someone in the comments who noticed xP

@Rainquack 3 года назад

Also you don't need "amazing HD cameras" for "timelapse technology"(?). Gosh, these journalists sometimes really just make facts up like these foley artists, don't they? Capturing fewer frames per second or faster playback isn't complicated high tech...

@johnmcnally7812 3 года назад

@@Rainquack I do think that Movie Insiders are pretty good, bit this was pretty awful...

@johnoutdoorvideos 3 года назад

You're mistaking macro for telephoto at 1:14

@marketadajkova7952 3 года назад

I feel like after this video there´s no going back...from now on you´ll always hear magnetic tape in everything

@chirayushpatel4499 3 года назад

This video is so badly mixed. For a video whose purpose is to highlight sounds, there is hardly any scene where they actually let us listen to the sound. Reduce your talk lady!!!

@CA58CA 3 года назад

I just said the same thing! Completely agree! She is at least 2x as loud as everything else in the video

@kaizenryan7783 2 года назад

Same sane man

@lurategh 2 года назад

She's the narrator, not the writer or director or whoever had more input in the final product. Chill out.

@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa790 2 года назад

I never got to hear the final sound of an aurora. It didn’t sound like something I’d hear in a documentary.

@JaCProductions0 3 года назад

The creativity and dedication this man has omg...thank you for making nature documentaries so mesmerising :””)

@BarefootDani 3 года назад

Though the work and effort of the sound artist are remarkable I was always annoyed by the super-fake sounds of those documentaries. It feels like the directors feel the obligation of making this all super dramatic and Hollywood-like. I agree that there are situations that call for fake or supplementary sounds, but still- it's fine if we don't hear the footsteps of a spider. We will live. Just give us the buzzing of a passing fly or the sound of the forest surrounding the shooting, that's enough.

@V4rya 2 года назад

Absolutely. I discovered that documentary sounds are fake when i heard them use a child’s cooing noise in that old documentary about the wire vs cloth mother experiment with baby monkies

@kishascape Год назад

Yeah it always annoyed and weirded me out. Though I do appreciate the sound design in its own right, the shroom growing timelapses and weird plants I kinda like tho.

@AB-ft7ng Год назад

Music also portrays emotion extremely well, like the northern lights scene. Forest sounds + atmospheric music would be way better than faux spidey steps

@gopisatyanishanth7946 3 года назад

Severus Snape as Foley artist

@heavenice977 3 года назад

OMFG NO- 😭😭😭😭

@carlbasky7637 3 года назад

Imagine they accidentally placed the unedited where in the camera men are heard farting, chatting, eating snacks, cursing and whatever stuff 🤣

@kasesayuri 3 года назад

O/-/O

@sadowl5307 3 года назад

I want to sniff their farts 🙄

@deletedchannel3633 3 года назад

Sexist

@MoonMixer939 2 года назад

@@deletedchannel3633 It's just what they are normally referred to

@chandramoulisarkar2935 3 года назад

Next video: the animals used in nature documentaries are people in furry suits.

@andrewsmith7543 3 года назад

1:14 a macro lens is not for shooting something across a valley, that's a telephoto.

@peachiibubbles4937 3 года назад

My life has been a lie

@MARS_118 Год назад

Funny I was always asking myself how they record such tiny sounds. I came to the conclusion that they have amazing microphones, or they fake the Sounds. Was tending to the microphones.

@GabstheGamerYT 3 года назад

I thought they used super powerful microphones

@invisiblewizard2538 Год назад

I have to say, the dumb unnatural sounds dubbed onto nature docs in the last couple of decades are really obtrusive to me - they're so obviously faked! We used to have subtle music, timed to the elements of the scene to bring us into the footage, now they're treating their documentaries like a fiction piece. Hate it. Still, well done on making such clever sounds, and thanks for pointing out to everyone that they're fake!

@s.y.am_ 3 года назад

7:07 for a second i thought this was tony stark 😂

@inmarcesible_sonrisa 3 года назад

Oml same 💀😂

@deathconccc3338 3 года назад

It is _Read more_

@CA58CA 3 года назад

For a video about sound the ladys voice is at least 2x as loud as everything else in the video. Aside from that though it's nice. Interesting subject. What a cool job that guys got.

@pranavvarma3137 3 года назад

That whale sound created by them at 7:28 sounded more like my toilet flush😂😂

@BrianBBBB 3 года назад

Aurora Borealis? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized ENTIRELY within your kitchen..?

@danislug 3 года назад

Yes!

@BrianBBBB 3 года назад

@@danislug May I see it?

@domirusz24 3 года назад

@@BrianBBBB Uhhh, *no*

@josephstalin364 3 года назад

Seymour! The house is on fire!

@Jhimothy-lv5zu 3 года назад

@@josephstalin364 no mother, it’s just the northern lights

@frogger6478 2 года назад

Takes a certain type of genius to make sounds post production

@Primenumber19 3 года назад

Anyone who watched a show about insects fighting each other understand this. The fights were all staged in captivity and they used pig noises for the insects. It was so obvious it hurt.

@0777coco 3 года назад

y'all really thought northern lights make noises?

@marklanza7516 2 года назад

Nice work Rick! Thanks for sharing.

@foglia2536 3 года назад

1:15 thats exactly how a macro lens works..

@azee1199 3 года назад

7:07 Tony what are you doing there

@aabababbbabbaabba7347 3 года назад

Video:How Sounds are Made for Nature Documentaries Me, watching the video in 2 am during the midnight in mute 'cause I' m too lazy to stand and get my earphones: *interesting.*

@beverlywelo Год назад

I lived five hundred miles north of the Arctic circle for a number of years. The nor lysen make a very specific sound. Remove the cellophane from a cigarette package and gently twist it.

@devil.gacha.dragon6118 3 года назад

Wow I did not know this and this is why I am subscribed to you. To wach videos like this

@elenacosta1040 Год назад

For the longest time I thought folly artists where just part of an SNL skit. It took me a while to realize this was serious.

@thatgirl6158 3 года назад

I literally thought that the documentary production uses high end and really expensive equipments to capture these shots and sounds. Lol.

@AjeetKumar-xx5oi 3 года назад

Never really thought

@ejmafive 3 года назад

Playing with your saliva to mimic the sound of an eye... nice

@Rainquack 3 года назад

More like completely making it up, instead of mimic. I'm glad that blinking is completely silent - just imagine your eyes making that sound everytime you blink.

@bouutiquems3578 3 года назад

What a very strange sound to play for northern lights.

@TechsScience 3 года назад

How come you make a sound of something you never heard?

@roshanminai 3 года назад

This just spoiled everything. Cause I had absolutely loved Our Planet.

@Mangobaby-sz7pz Год назад

It's just to enhance the experience of watching it!🙂. Humans are always using sensory for stimulation. So I guess they wanted us to have both(sound and sight)

@kaizalindberg8825 3 года назад

When you want to do ASMR but you have a degree in nature

@readmycomment3157 3 года назад

This was crazy and very cool.

@mrcrud5 Год назад

I've always felt the foley sounds on nature docs were super obvious and sometimes cringey.

@wbwam7710 3 года назад

You mean spiders and centipedes don't really roar?

@Marteenofficial 3 года назад

Im not watching documentaries ever again😂😂😂

@ilyachap 3 года назад

Not y'all acting like you didn't know it wasn't the actual sound-

@aaronr336 3 года назад

Some of these things I thought were real😅

@fridakron1696 3 года назад

Oh ffs... we’ve all been duped 🤦‍♀️😧

@viktork5905 Год назад

8:50 if you saw that without knowing the context, you'd think that the guy just really needs to see a specialist

@OneAbuvAll 3 года назад

Wait obviously not all sounds would be recorded for the insects or animal's. For example a lions roar is legit while the music is actually just music like wtf common sense. Webs don't have sounds nor does the aurora at the northern hemisphere. It's just background music and I've never really noticed the music if I'm honest😂😂

@Auriflamme 3 года назад

I hate this trend in modern nature documentaries. With older docs you don't get all these annoying added sfx which pull you out of immersion. In reality there's a lot of environmental noise and with insects you only really hear their wings vibrating. I don't mind the exaggerated real noises or cleaning up environmental noise. It's when you hear insects chewing and so forth that it gets annoying.

@lknanml 3 года назад

Have to admit I have hated added sounds to nature documentaries for years. If you happen to shoot the real sound. Cool. If not. Music and narration please.

@pinkpenzu 3 года назад

I rather not listen to music

@lknanml 3 года назад

@@pinkpenzu I don't mean songs. Instrumental sounds.

@vex_ahlia7 3 года назад

Don't ruin it... Damn wth!

@gorgeouslady5612 Год назад

Richard Hinton's Greatest sounds! Now on Amazon!.

@user-qj3ew8wv9j 3 года назад

Great stuff, thanks!

@cab3129 3 года назад

Nature documentary are the original asmr

@hughJ 10 месяцев назад

Once you visualize some BBC sound designer with a boom mic splashing water about in his bath tub it's pretty hard to unsee it. The only silver lining is that you now get the opportunity to rain on everyone else's parade when they happen to be watching a nature doc.

@MiNombreEsElCamaron 3 года назад

The background music made is so difficult to hear his noises!! Can someone re edit and re upload? I can’t hear what he’s doing

@connormullen8823 3 года назад

i had no idea.. wow

@Craftiummah123 3 года назад

love to watch this documentary, Stay tuned.

@Jonathan-we6lc 2 года назад

Very interesting to learn about this kind of work, but why not consult an audio expert during the production of the video? It's frustrating not to hear the final sounds as used in the docs, and only the raw and unconvincing Foley. And why the whimsical music throughout the whole thing?

@TARQUINLEE 3 года назад

Amazing!

@ktnixon81 3 года назад

Foley artistry has been a secret obsession of mine and I’m also a high school science teacher so this is just...👩🏽‍🍳💋 PERFECTION

@ThatBugBehindYou 3 года назад

Ever since I was a kid I hated how much repetitive fake noises documentaries had. I'd especially have problems with putting in sounds that physically can't happen. Like, I'm fine with faking the noises made due to not being able to record the natural ones, but can we stop with the reptiles hissing every time they move and horses making the same three sounds when they're running and standing on the hind legs?

@bjarkiaxelsson1449 3 месяца назад

Greetings from Iceland! I want to correct what you said in the beginning: You CAN hear northern lights on rare occassions. I was once lucky enough to experience those sounds here in Iceland.

@FlareWaveTutorials Год назад

These people are amazing. They made nature and animal sounds realistic. It really make me believe that those sounds were naturally produced. Kukos!

@GangMilk222 10 месяцев назад

Come on bro none of those sounds even matched the scene, this was a mid example of foley

@TheCasimir94 3 года назад

The norther lights one was a really dumb example 😂 who thinks lights sound like high hats

@btjr583 3 года назад

Macro = up close, telephoto= distance. Surprised they got this wrong in the first 2 minutes?!

@midnightcasinova 3 года назад

His studio looks like my room.

@rankingresearchdata 3 года назад

I was unaware of this. I thought creatures really make sounds lol 😂

@Moon-ei7se 3 года назад

I feel like i was faked out by plant earth

@assbalonkerful 3 года назад

7:06 Tony stark just chilling

@snowroaches 3 года назад

The northern lights do have a kinda tuning fork sound if there's no ambient sound around it.

@theoliviaarchives4794 2 года назад

I can’t believe it’s only EQ applied the underwater sound of the whale. Amazing. 😮

@1001Hobbies 2 года назад

YOU GOT MACRO LENSES 100% WRONG. Macro lenses are used for shooting very close to an object (inches or fractions of an inch). ZOOM LENSES are for shooting objects which are far away.

@Wildridefilms 7 месяцев назад

Not Zoom lenses, but telephoto lenses. Zoom lenses are just lenses that have a range of focal lengths

@1001Hobbies 7 месяцев назад

@@Wildridefilms -Eh, thank you for that. I must have been tired. However, both can be used. I have a 70 - 300mm lens that I got fantastic footage of a 17 year cicada hatching with. Looks like National Geographic footage.

@TehEeveeGeneral Год назад

*me farting into a mason jar* = a Beluga whale yawning

@OWLFRED-xj8vs 3 года назад

Next up : our reality is actually a simulation

@daradelle3665 3 года назад

You mean like we're inside a matrix or something? 😉😁

@_CatBug_ Год назад

Imagine how boring nature shows would be without ASMR sounds 😆 it would be like watching a low budget RU-vid doc

@francophone. 3 года назад

1:14 *telephoto lenses

@unified_method 2 года назад

i have a feeling that mixing was beyond basic and really undermined this guy's work, also the neverending music wasnt helping either.

@tellemgangbang6540 2 года назад

We would of all wanted his job as kids

@bellathesmolneko9159 3 года назад

Awesome

@tommyk88888 6 месяцев назад

Pretty impressive if you manage to shoot across a valley with a macro lens 😅

@ecivedsusagep 2 месяца назад

Fun fact: Auroras DO actually make a sound, rarely auroras make a low humming sound, along with ethereal cracking noises.

@theguythatlikeseverything2181 3 года назад

The ASMR legend

@deathconccc3338 3 года назад

*_-When your recording the quiet kid and your friend makes ak47 noises-_*

@pothepandasemporium8616 2 года назад

Would you want to remove the narration to show all of Richard Hinton’s foley work?

@HowardEllisonUKVoice 4 месяца назад

Such skill. Marvellous! Foley-enhanced drama much preferred to the ludicrous 40-piece metropolitan orchestra that used to saturate earlier Attenborough documentaries! Occasionally a bit of over-the-top is okay: that huge drumbeat&rumble dubbed onto the surfacing of a sharp-toothed swamp creature had my girlfriend fall off the sofa. Did I laugh!

@Waccoon 3 года назад

So... the reason you watch a nature documentary is to get an artistic interpretation of nature. That's just wrong. I'm an audiophile, so practically all modern shows drive me crazy as EVERYTHING sounds fake. Uncanny valley applies to sound design, too. The reason I love 80's synthesizers is because they don't pretend to sound like real instruments. 90's synths all tried to mimic real instruments and they sounded "wrong".

@chee8572 2 года назад

I don’t like a lot of modern electronic drum kit sounds (specifically in dance music) for that reason! It just sounds like muted clicks and I don’t understand the point of it.