Foley sounds are the act of recreating everyday sounds in a controlled environment, as to create more specific sounds that cater to the producers needs. For our thriller we decided it would be a great idea to make some Foley sounds in order to create some of the sounds that either weren’t picked up by the camera during our first shoot or that we forgot.
This shows us running a pencil down the side of a CD case, this makes a strange clicking sound which when layered with, other things such as a creak from the same CD case, we layered these two together along with a few other sounds in order to create a really realistic sounding gate sound.
![foley sounds4](https://blogs.grammar.sch.gg/alexloveridge/files/2016/03/foley-sounds4-2gd8043-225x300.jpg)
We also found that we needed more sounds of things like branches snapping or being brushed, these sounds can be used in many different ways, as they can be used as sound to be layered as to create new sounds, and they can just be used on their own as they fit our setting well.
![foley sounds3](https://blogs.grammar.sch.gg/alexloveridge/files/2016/03/foley-sounds3-1btnbmu-225x300.jpg)
These two pictures both show us getting the sounds for our footsteps, for this we first used a bag and pressed down on it to simulate a footstep we soon realised that this sounded like leaves, so we then decided to add a sound which sounded more like earth/ mud, which created a nice sounding footstep.
![foley sounds](https://blogs.grammar.sch.gg/alexloveridge/files/2016/03/foley-sounds-1j25ugi-300x225.jpg)