Introduction to Foley: Create and Record Sound Effects
Step recording
A course by Manuel José Gordillo , Composer and Sound Designer
Joined March 2022
About the video: Step recording
Overview
“What should the footsteps of a given character sound like? What kind of shoes and surfaces should you have? Let's see it (or listen to it, rather!).”
In this video lesson Manuel José Gordillo addresses the topic: Step recording, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Foley: Create and Record Sound Effects. Learn to tune in to the sounds of your environment and enrich your audiovisual storytelling with Foley.
Partial transcription of the video
“step recording Have you paid attention to the steps when people walk? Would you know how to reproduce this in a small space? Let's see it. Before recording we will prepare the recording sessions. For this we will use the spotting session that we did previously. Let's see. The first thing we are going to do is open our spotting session and we are going to record it with this modality, Save Copy In. Let's make sure to copy all audio files in the new session. let's record this as Unit four. Now we are going to open the session. We will create the recording channels. In this case, for this sess...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Foley: Create and Record Sound Effects
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Audio, Sound Design

Manuel José Gordillo
A course by Manuel José Gordillo
Manuel José Gordillo is a composer and sound designer for film and media at La Tina Sonido, a company he cofounded in 2010, based in Bogotá, Colombia. He is also the cofounder and board member of MuCine, Asociación Colombiana de Compositores de Música para Cine, with whom he has collaborated on multiple projects.
Throughout his career, he's worked in every step of the sound post-production process for film, holding positions as a sound supervisor, an FX, direct, and ambient sound editor, a Foley artist, and a mixing engineer. He currently devotes his time to composing original music for feature-length films in a variety of genres, from dramas to thrillers and horror movies. With his company, La Tina, he's done sound and music post-production work for projects at both a local and international level, as well as platforms such Netflix, HBO, and Amazon Prime.
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