Acting & Cinema
Hearing
Foley, ADR, the sound designer credit, and the silence before a motif
Jack Foley · the dialogue booth · Murch and Burtt · Herrmann and Williams · 4 chapters · 12 min read
Footsteps performed by hand, lines said again in a booth, a hum from a projector, and two notes.
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Sound
- 01Footsteps Are Made by HandOn the man whose name became a verb, and why the real sound never works.
- 02Said Again in a BoothOn lines recorded twice, and the argument about why you cannot hear them.
- 03A Hum, and a Credit That Did Not ExistOn a credit invented in 1979, and a hum from a projection booth.
- 04Two NotesOn two famous overrulings, and the survivorship hiding inside them.