Foley

1. What is a Foley artist?
When something is filmed and the sound is taken out, a Foley artist does actions to make the sounds and then this sound is put into the film.
2. Who was Foley?
Jack Foley, he established the basic modern techniques still used today. Like most terms that are named in honour of a person, it is customary to spell Foley with a capital 'F'.
3. Why are Foley artists needed?
without Foley, a film sounds empty and hollow - the actors seem to be talking in a vacuum. The sound recordist, if they did a good job, has given us the dialogue and excluded everything else, but our films needs more than this for the picture to come alive. we need to hear little sounds of clothes, furniture etc.
4. Give examples of how Foley artists traditionally achieve their outcomes and how is it completed nowadays?
Increasingly, many simply Foley sound fx are done without Foley artists, the sound effects are stored electronically and performed by the post production sound engineer on a keyboard while watching the visual. Doing it this way is much cheaper than renting a Foley stage and paying Foley artists to create the Foley sound effects.