You know, when we watch a movie or listen to an audio book, those background noises like coffee coming up, water running down from the shower, that are not directly about the characters' voices or the accompanying music?

Here, these sounds related to the actions of the characters are often taken for granted or we don't pay attention to them, but there is painstaking work behind them, that of the noisemaker!

Crazy isn't it?

Noisemakers or Foley Artists, are true professionals who are essential to the creation of a video product.

The name is derived from Jack Donovan Foley, who was known for having developed as early as the early 1900s numerous techniques for creating sound effects used in cinematography, which are still faithfully applied today. His genius is precisely that he sensed that with a different use of simple everyday objects, an infinity of sounds could be reproduced.

An example? The sound of Star Wars lightsabers comes from the interference of a television set with an unshielded microphone. By moving the microphone, the sound varied precisely to describe the movement of the sword, the world's most famous "wooom."

The Master SOUND students this week focused on but also had fun recording noises and sounds from the most unlikely objects in order to catalog them for later use within a video.

The result? Find out in the video!