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Many years ago I worked at a community TV station. One of the things we did was to add sound to footage where audio was missing or unusable.

Had great fun doing things like recording pulling sellotape fast, that bizzarely ends up sounding like breaking glass. Or maybe it just sounds enough like it when played against video of it, and your brain does the rest.




People usually don't appreciate or even notice foley work until it's not there :)


The movie Blow Out (based on Blowup) is about people not appreciating foley work that was there.




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