Illustration by Juliette Toma for the Times. For a piece about foley artists. On in a series of stories about how to make it in Hollywood. (Illustration by Juliette Toma for the Times) Back when ...

Post-production has many skilled specialties that make an artistic contribution to a finished show. Few can argue that they are actually performers, though, in the sense that actors and musicians are ...

Foley artists find creative ways to add sounds to movies using a variety of objects like vegetables, stumps, and steaks. These objects are used to enhance things like fight scenes or animal noises.

"There's a huge difference between listening and hearing." If you're a movie geek or a filmmaker, you know that foley artists an an important part of the filmmaking process. These people work in ...

On screen in “Poseidon,” the upcoming remake of the classic 1972 disaster movie about a capsized ocean liner, actor Kurt Russell jumps into the water and attempts to swim for his life. Off screen, ...

Where most artists who create movie sound labor at tasks that can appear fairly obscure and technical, Foley artists look like the ones who have all the fun. They’re clanking pipes, mixing… Where most ...

Find out who creates the sound of bones breaking and horses galloping in movies. Jan. 28, 2008 — -- Behind the scenes of blockbuster movies like "Transformers," "The Matrix" and "Braveheart" is ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A coffee pot, an old Slinky, a shovel. To the untrained eye, it looks like junk. But to the few people who understand, it represents a life's work searching for movie magic and the ...

Though the computer is now dominating several aspects of filmmaking -- most notably special effects and animation -- there is one craft that has remained blissfully low-tech: that of the foley artist.