1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,300 Hello, 15 weeks to go. 2 00:00:03,300 --> 00:00:07,100 This week we've got something very interesting. 3 00:00:07,100 --> 00:00:09,400 It's another one of those behind the scenes areas 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:10,900 that not a lot of people know about. 5 00:00:10,900 --> 00:00:13,400 I'm sure you'll appreciate that the big sound effects 6 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:15,400 are obviously put in later like Kong roaring 7 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:17,000 and aeroplanes and that stuff. 8 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,100 But what you may not be aware of is every tiny, 9 00:00:20,100 --> 00:00:23,400 little, subtle sound effect is also added in. 10 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:25,600 And a lot of these are done by the Foley artists. 11 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,500 Foley is actually named after a fella by the name of Jack Foley 12 00:00:35,500 --> 00:00:39,000 who started the whole process of putting sound effects 13 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:40,500 in sync with pictures. 14 00:00:40,500 --> 00:00:44,500 Foley is basically replacing every human movement 15 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:46,000 that happens in a film. 16 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Actors do what's called ADR and they replace their dialogue 17 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,500 and then we go into a sound recording studio 18 00:00:51,500 --> 00:00:54,000 and recreate everything that you see. 19 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,000 So we've got our footsteps, 20 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,000 we've got people drinking cups of tea. 21 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,500 Doors closing, people having meals, knives and forks. 22 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:05,000 On Kong there's a big boat called The Venture 23 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,000 so everything that happens on the boat we recreate. 24 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,000 All of the stuff going thrown overboard 25 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,000 like every single crate landing in the ocean, 26 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,000 they're all done individually. 27 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,000 Very nice, thank you. 28 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,000 We were lucky we were able to get a lot of the original props. 29 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,500 The big old baskets, the cages, old wooden crates. 30 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:27,500 We've got things off of The Venture itself 31 00:01:27,500 --> 00:01:29,500 that's only just parked down at the wharf here. 32 00:01:29,500 --> 00:01:31,500 We've got all the rigging, the pulleys and things 33 00:01:31,500 --> 00:01:33,500 because that's swinging around in the storm 34 00:01:33,500 --> 00:01:35,500 and that'll be hitting the side of the boat. 35 00:01:35,500 --> 00:01:38,500 We'll be doing all their coats separately 36 00:01:38,500 --> 00:01:41,500 because they've got these big heavy weatherproof coats. 37 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:42,500 You name it. 38 00:01:42,500 --> 00:01:44,500 You've got everything including the kitchen sink. 39 00:01:44,500 --> 00:01:46,500 So the process is that we work to the picture, 40 00:01:46,500 --> 00:01:48,500 we have our own screen in the room. 41 00:01:48,500 --> 00:01:50,500 You have to be in character pretty much, 42 00:01:50,500 --> 00:01:52,000 take on that character, 43 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,000 especially when you're walking the feet through. 44 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,500 So you really have to take on their mannerisms, 45 00:01:56,500 --> 00:01:58,000 their weight changes. 46 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,500 So it's sort of like a little dance, I suppose. 47 00:02:03,500 --> 00:02:08,500 So what we're doing is we're doing all the hands on the guns 48 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:12,000 and then we'll do gun on wood and then gun straps 49 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,500 and then gun rattles. 50 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:15,500 So you do layers and layers and layers of sounds 51 00:02:15,500 --> 00:02:17,000 just to make one element. 52 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:18,500 Here we go. 53 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:20,500 They've got to convince me. 54 00:02:26,500 --> 00:02:28,000 Oh, that's good. 55 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,000 For Skull Island, where there are the natives, 56 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,500 we wanted to create a different atmosphere there 57 00:02:33,500 --> 00:02:35,500 so we gave them a little signature sound 58 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:39,000 which is the skulls and beads that were on their necks. 59 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:40,500 Is it me? 60 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,000 And then there's also the thousands of feet 61 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,500 when they're all trying to sacrifice someone on the island. 62 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,500 All I can say is ouch. 63 00:02:48,500 --> 00:02:51,000 We also wanted to make the island have a known atmosphere 64 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,000 so it sounds different than anywhere else. 65 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,000 So we gave creaking bamboo sticks 66 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,500 and certain things that would give it more of an atmosphere. 67 00:03:02,500 --> 00:03:04,000 And also take it from the dry. 68 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,000 We've just arrived. 69 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:06,000 Oh, it's nice and sunny. 70 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,500 Wow, this is a deserted island. 71 00:03:07,500 --> 00:03:13,500 To the wet, more intimidating, more violent element of the scene. 72 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,500 This is the remains of all the previous foley artists 73 00:03:16,500 --> 00:03:18,000 that used to work in this room. 74 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:19,000 It's great fun. 75 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,000 It's challenging. 76 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:21,000 It's rewarding. 77 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:22,000 It's hilarious. 78 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,000 You can do your own little thing and do what you want 79 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,000 and at the end of the day you come out with a really good sound. 80 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,000 That's what I like about it. 81 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,000 When you play it all back and it works.