Foley
Foley is a sound technique genuinely used in film that involves creating artificial sounds for movies or tv shows. Foley artists create these sounds in a recording studio during post-production, in synchrony with the picture, to enhance the quality of the audio.
Soundscapes
Soundscapes can be defined as an “acoustic environment”. A soundscape is the combination of sounds that forms from an immersive environment including natural sounds of birds, wind, leaves. It is a composition of natural sounds to produce an acoustic version of the environment.
Field recording
Field recordings are similar to foley as they are sounds added to visuals after being filmed. Fields recordings take natural sounds instead of producing artificial sounds, and add them into the audio post production.
Sound nomenclatures:
- PITCH: High-Low
“Pitch in music, position of a single sound in the complete range of sound. Sounds are higher or lower in pitch according to the frequency of vibration of the sound waves producing them” – Encyclopaedia Britannica
- DYNAMICS: Loud-Soft
Dynamics refers to the volume of a sound or a note
- DURATION: Long-Short
Refers to the length of of a sound
- TEMPO: Fast-Slow
Tempo refers to the speed at which a piece of music is played
- TEXTURE: Thick-Thin
Texture is how the melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic materials are combined in a composition
- Static-Moving
- Regular-Irregular
- Gradual-Sudden Change
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