This Christmas, a wonderful festive and cultural program awaits families at the Méréville cultural center in Essonne. Film ...

Hollywood movies are large, expensive productions, and so in order to cut costs, sound editors will often lift pre-existing sound effects from a large library rather than go out into the field and ...

Need to add sound effects to your home movies but don't want to break the bank buying royalty-free tracks from LucasFilm? The Freesound Project aims to provide those of us working on non-commercial ...

The hidden mysteries of movie sound effects — known as Foley, after an early practitioner — will be revealed at 7 p.m. on Oct 28 at Race Brook Lodge when Foley master Leslie Bloome provides live ...

Cinema exists to project our dreams. Science-fiction cinema exists to project our most creative dreams—time-travel, alternate worlds, expanded consciousness, and more. But what would our favorite ...

Most of us probably never notice the sound effects foley artists create for movies. They’re usually ambient sounds like footsteps, swishing cloth, or doors opening and closing, intended to fade into ...

In the days before movies had soundtracks, it’s easy to assume that going to the cinema was a silent experiences. Not so. In fact, movie theaters were packed with innovations to create dramatic ...

During a fight scene, you probably thought you heard someone getting punched. Wrong. What you actually heard was a chicken carcass getting smashed by a baseball bat. And that’s just the tip of the ...