How My Group Used Foley In The Opening Title Sequence

In the first draft of our opening title sequence, we did not use any foley. As a result there was a lot of background sound such as wind and traffic, that was unnecessary and made the dialogue difficult to hear, especially at the beginning of the sequence.

Therefore we decided to use foley in order eliminate the background sound, and to improve the quality of the dialogue being spoken. We did this by recording the dialgue in a music studio, which had high quality microphones, which would be able to make the dialogue sound more clear and crisp.  We decided to also add in footsteps, car door sound effects, the sniper shot along with the dialogue, in order to ensure that everything that should be heard within the sequence, is heard, and that no particular sound effect is lounder or quieter then it should be. Then, we found a sound track, which we implemented into our sequence with the owners permission, which we felt gave the sequence a btter sense of atmostphere and tension.We also had to synch up the dialogue and sound effects with the sequence within the editng software, adobe after effects. This was done to ensure that the dialogue actually played we the characters opened their mouths, and that the other sounds played when they were necessary, and not just at random.

Overall, the foley we added to the sequence gave us more control of how lound we wanted the sound to be, and fade in when dialogue was about to take place. We did this mainly to aid the audience in hearing what was being said, and to potentially gain more marks by recording our own foley.


It is clear to see how foley has made a difference to our final opening title sequence from our draft.