Footsteps with character: the art and craft of Foley

Wright, Benjamin

doi:10.1093/screen/hju010

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“…Foley artists make use of a variety of tools and techniques with the goal of being able to create believable, synchronised sound that can help reinforce the narrative and reality established within a production [15][16][17]. Three core sound elements of footsteps, prop handling, and cloth are typically performed [18][19][20]. Foley, being diegetic in nature, can be considered to play a part in allowing an audience to comprehend the actions and characters in a scene and therefore contribute to a narrative, although the source or object used to create the sound may be different to that depicted in a process of "sound-acting" [21].…”

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Audience perceptions of Foley footsteps and 3D realism designed to convey walker characteristics

Cunningham,

McGregor

2024

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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Foley artistry is an essential part of the audio post-production process for film, television, games, and animation. By extension, it is as crucial in emergent media such as virtual, mixed, and augmented reality. Footsteps are a core activity that a Foley artist must undertake and convey information about the characters and environment presented on-screen. This study sought to identify if characteristics of age, gender, weight, health, and confidence could be conveyed, using sounds created by a professional Foley artist, in three different 3D humanoid models, following a single walk cycle. An experiment was conducted with human participants (n=100) and found that Foley manipulations could convey all the intended characteristics with varying degrees of contextual success. It was shown that the abstract 3D models were capable of communicating characteristics of age, gender, and weight. A discussion of the literature and inspection of related audio features with the Foley clips suggest signal parameters of frequency, envelope, and novelty may be a subset of markers of those perceived characteristics. The findings are relevant to researchers and practitioners in linear and interactive media and demonstrate mechanisms by which Foley can contribute useful information and concepts about on-screen characters.

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Audience perceptions of Foley footsteps and 3D realism designed to convey walker characteristics

Cunningham,

McGregor

2024

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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“…Wright [33] argues strongly for Foley being important in the process of "...creating sound with 'character'" and that there is a strong human element to the work of Foley artists. The interaction of on-screen characters with props in a scene is often tailored to convey information about the character, such as their size or weight, or more abstract concepts, such as their emotional state, in what some have termed method Foley.…”

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“…Footstep sounds are considered one of the most important elements of Foley artistry and in the production of audio-visual media [1]. As such, prior to the term Foley artist being commonplace, Foley walker was used [2,33]. Foley artists regularly apply their craft to convey multiple character traits, specifically concerning the use of footstep sounds, according to Beauchamp, when discussing the use of sound in animation: "When a Foley artist walks a character, we are often able to determine the size, age, gender, and emotional state of that character without ever seeing the image.…”

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Manipulating Foley Footsteps and Character Realism to Influence Audience Perceptions of a 3D Animated Walk Cycle

Cunningham

Mcgregor

2022

AudioMostly 2022

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Foley artistry is an essential part of the audio post-production process for film, television, games, and animation. By extension, it is as crucial in emergent media such as virtual, mixed, and augmented reality. Footsteps are a core activity that a Foley artist must undertake and convey information about the characters and environment presented on-screen. This study sought to identify if characteristics of age, gender, weight, health, and confidence could be conveyed, using sounds created by a professional Foley artist, in three different 3D humanoid models, following a single walk cycle. An experiment was conducted with human participants (n=100) and found that Foley manipulations could convey all the intended characteristics with varying degrees of contextual success. It was shown that the abstract models were capable of communicating characteristics of age, gender, and weight. The findings are relevant to researchers and practitioners in linear and interactive media and demonstrate mechanisms by which Foley can contribute useful information and concepts about on-screen characters. CCS CONCEPTS• Applied computing → Sound and music computing; • Humancentered computing → User studies.

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“…24 For a general assessment of the technical changes and strategies in early sound post-production conceptions see Hanson (2007), for a particular assessment of such on foley, see Wright (2014). The second part of this study focuses on the idea of "foley gesture" and therefore goes more in-depth about foley itself.…”

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Acousmatic Foley: Son-en-Scène

Pinheiro

2022

IJFMA

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“Acousmatic Foley” is practice-based research on sound dramaturgy stemming from musique concrète and Foley Art. This article sets out a theory based on the concept of “son-en-scène”, which forms the sonic content of the mise-en-scène, as perceived (esthesic sound). The theory departs from the well-known features of a soundscape (R. M. Schafer, 1999) and the listening modes in film as asserted by Chion (1994), in order to arrive at three main concepts: sound-prop, sound-actor and sound-motif. Throughout their conceptualization, the study theorizes a sonic dramaturgy that focuses on the sounds themselves and their practical influence on film's story-telling elements. For that, it conveys an assessment of sound in film-history based on the “montage of attractions” and foley art, together with the principles of acousmatic listening. This research concludes that film-sound should be to sound designers what a “sonorous object” is to musique concrète, albeit conveying all sound’s fictional aspects.

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Footsteps with character: the art and craft of Foley

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Audience perceptions of Foley footsteps and 3D realism designed to convey walker characteristics

Audience perceptions of Foley footsteps and 3D realism designed to convey walker characteristics

Manipulating Foley Footsteps and Character Realism to Influence Audience Perceptions of a 3D Animated Walk Cycle

Acousmatic Foley: Son-en-Scène

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