Sep 11, 2026 · 6 min · 8 segments
Can you think faster than Sharon? Foley design is the art of recreating sounds for film and television. But to recreate those sounds, they might use something totally unexpected. In today's episode…
Nicole BoyceHostSharonGuest
So fun fact, you know, you're watching something, uh, the, someone makes a sound perhaps, maybe someone throws a rock at a window.
[knocks on wood] But it turns out that the sound, the Foley artist is actually, you know, maybe hitting their water bottle, hitting something else.
You know, they're, they're recreating the sounds, but they're using something else that might be totally different.
Okay.
Okay.
So it's like, this is maybe what they were doing, and then it's what they were cooking up in the sound department.
I think it makes sense.
Let's try.
So fun fact, you know, you're watching something, uh, the, someone makes a sound perhaps, maybe someone throws a rock at a window.
[knocks on wood] But it turns out that the sound, the Foley artist is actually, you know, maybe hitting their water bottle, hitting something else.
You know, they're, they're recreating the sounds, but they're using something else that might be totally different.
Okay.
Okay.
So it's like, this is maybe what they were doing, and then it's what they were cooking up in the sound department.
I think it makes sense.
Let's try.
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