Stupid question - what is foley work?

[KitchenWitch]

[jpgray]

1. You mean like the guys who create sounds for movies?

[KitchenWitch]

3. yes, that!

[datasuspect]

2. working at a dept. store in texas?

http://www.foleys.com/gifts/OnlineShopping/FO?Dsp=1&c=1

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Listen to "For Your Eyes Only" - everything that sounds bad and off,

that's foley work.

:7

[jpgray]

5. Or when someone hits someone else in a 70s tv action show

The hamhanded (ahem) smack sound is likely a pair of meat-slammers hurled together.

[Dave Reynolds]

6. In my business,

it's catheter insertion. ow owowowowowowowowowowowowow

[KitchenWitch]

7. I am familiar with *that* kind of foley

x(

[sendero]

8. Basically...

... the creation and editing in of the background sounds. In most film production, most of the sound is added in later.