The film "New Years Eve" staring Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac efron and others was our personal choice in creating a foley. This was really a fun and at the same time challenging experience for us because it was our first time to do a foley. I've been to music editing and adding sound effects but I've never tried recording your own sound effects that should match to the object that is presented in the film. I was assigned as one of the recorders for recording the sound effects.
We have assigned voice artist for each character that is present in the scene. Ezra Flores was assigned as Ingrid Withers(Michelle Pfeiffer), Roberto Oquias was Jonathan Cox(John Lithgow). Victor Ian as Ava(Sofia Vergara) and Hannah Jane Torres as Laura(Katherine Heighl).
The challenging part in doing this foley is how immitate the voices of the each character. It was really hard because you need to express your words like you are the person in the movie so you could immitate the voice properly and at the same time the timing for every word that the character says. We have made several drafts just to get the right timing and proper expressing of the voice. But the recording of the sound effects was better for me. Most of the sound effects were only recorded only ones. The eng that was been thrown to the wall was the hardest for me. I need to keep the timing and the right impact sound because I didn't want to waste an egg. Luckily, we have recorded it only ones. I was also disturbed with the noise or the hissing sound in the recording. I did not get the chance to remove the noise of the voice since it was recorded directly to the software. We did not have much time to edit it one by one. But overall, I was really enjoying this experience. It was so much fun to do a foley and I'm looking forward to make another one. Ofcourse, I'd like to work with better equipments and materials on my hand.
