Tara Blume: Every Foley stage probably has a machete. I'm not sure that every Foley artist actually has a machete at their house... [laughs] Joe Avella: So, to start off, can you please introduce ...

The Foley artist's sound stage is an empire of things. Consider the following list of objects found in the studio of Roesch and his Foley partner Alyson Dee Moore at Warner Bros.: ‘eye glasses, hinges ...

Sound effects—called Foley—add crucial value to any film. “The challenge,” says Foley artist John Roesch, “is to create something in sync with the picture that is totally believable.” ...