Phsyco foley sound edit

What we have been doing so far for this task is recreating the sound for the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Phsyco. We had to create our own versions of the sounds e.g the Plughole, Shower, Screaming, Stabbing and Humming sounds for this scene and we had to mute the sound of the original scene. What I did in preparation for this task was I watched the original scene from the film and I had to identify the sound effects from each part of the scene in order to match them up with the sounds we had created ourselves.


The ways in which we created some of these sound effects were we poured uncooked rice into a sweet tin for the shower sound effect, Chopped up vegetables e.g cabbage and carrots for stabbing sound effect, we had someone humming for humming sound effect, someone screaming for the screaming sound effect and pouring some water for the plughole sound effect.


What Foley sound is, is the reproduction of everyday sound effects that are added to film, video and other types of media in post productions in order to enhance the audio quality. These sounds can be anything from explosions to squeaky doors to fire burning. The idea of foley sound effects was conceived by Jack Foley who started working with universal studios in 1914 during the silent movie era. The very first film to use foley sound effects was the 1927 American musical The Jazz Singer distributed by Warner Bros studios. Universal knew that they had to stay competitive in some way and they called for any employees who had radio experience to step forward. Foley became part of the sound crew that turned Universal's then silent musical Show Boat into a proper Musical.


 Since then, Foley sound has gone on to play a major part in editing sound for film. Some of the most common examples of when Foley sound is used is