Using Foley

As I was editing and applying sound effects where it was needed, I went to the audio library to find punching sound effects. As I was going through them I didn't like any of them at all. They sounded really bad and fake. I did try applying them to the footage but it just did not sound real at all. So we decided that we should do foley for the punch sound effects.

As you can see, the punch sound effects sound really fake and just don't go with the fight scene at all. 

I watched some videos on different methods of foley for punch sounds. Some different methods are

• hitting pillows with different types of hard object like a wooden stick. 
• hitting a plastic like stick to a cabbage 
• hitting an ax to a cabbage 
• twisting and tearing leeks
• cutting a grapefruit in half and punching it with your fingers
• taking a wet towel and hitting it to a wooden platform
• hitting your arm or chest
• taking wooden sticks and breaking them with your knee, this could be used for the sound of breaking bones.
• Taking a wooden stick and waving it really hard, this creates a wind type of sound that makes it match with when the punch is being thrown. 

These are all really good methods to create the punch sound effects we need. They are also really do-able as in we are able to do them at home without many difficulties.

Tod, Chris Allan. “Recording Punch Sound Sources.” YouTube, YouTube, 14 Apr. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArqiTny3ZoM.