A feature on the art of foley editing: creating artificial sounds in the studio. In which we discover that the noise the Ringwraiths make in Lord of the Rings is actually sourced from plastic cups, and that the watermelon smashing in Berberian Sound Studio isn’t actually watermelon smashing, because smashing watermelons doesn’t sound enough like smashing watermelons.

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