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Sunday 25th, March, 2012

Sound FX Artist, Caoimhe Doyle, talks about sound, film, and getting it together

For NOISE Flicks 2012, Foley Artist Caoimhe Doyle spoke with Sheila DeCourcy, Commissioning Editor of Young People's Programming for RTE, about her work--all about the sound effects in films.

Foley is all the sounds in a movie that are added manually--which is a lot more than you would think. In this interview from NOISE Flicks 2012, Caimohe shows us how sounds for snow are made, horse trotting and birds wings flapping. She explains what unusal objects are used to record sounds.

Caoimhe is an internationally renowned, Emmy award-nominated Foley artist who began her career in 1997 in the cutting rooms of Ardmore, Ireland's national film studios.  She has worked extensively on many feature films on both sides of the Atlantic with such great directors as Robert Altman, Neil Jordan and Guy Maddin. She has worked on the films Knocked Up, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Guard and more and the well known TV Series, Game of Thrones.
Hear about foley art, how to get work in the field, and what is involved here:

NOISE Flicks Film Festival 2012 is an initiative of South Dublin County Council's Arts Office and is part of NOISE South Dublin, the Council's dedicated youth arts programme. NOISE Flicks 2012 was supported by RUA RED South Dublin Arts Centre, RTÉ, Ardmore Studios, An Lár TV, South Dublin County Council, IT Tallaght and the Arts Council.