Film studies essay

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Can I use 'foley' as a verb (er, wtf, edjective? oh man, my brain) and describe an audio effect as a foleyed door creak for example? If not, do re-word it for me, thankin ya kindly.

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I'm not sure you can actually use 'folyed' - it certainly only comes up as a dodgy urban dictionary word. Maybe something more like 'the film makes extensive use of foley effects, including the dramatic door creaks' or 'The sound of the horses were clearly added by the foley artist in post-production, but the film benefits from the distinct noise of coconut shells' or even just - 'the foley creaks'. Looking at the wikipedia page it just sounds like something you don't add the 'ed' to.

Might be wrong though, bungle will probably know better, sounds more his kinda thing.

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There's a few links to articles here -

http://filmsound.org/foley/

All of which seem to use the term 'foley' rather than 'foleyed'

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*steals sentance* cheers Jim