Last night The Forgotten Battle won the Golden Calf Award for Best Sound Design at the Dutch Film Festival! Congratulations to sound designer Herman Pieete and the whole sound team for this great recognition! Besides the sound design award the film went home with awards in the categories Best Editing, Camera, Costume Design and Production Design! As a foley artist movies like this are a dream to work on since we had the time to really go the extra mile and create detailed and layered foley sound for every scene. The battle scenes where massive and had many footsteps tracks and many more tracks for uniforms, gear, weapons etc. But in the quiet scenes we could let some detailed foley sound shine through with subtle object handling and creaking wooden floors. Check out the trailer here
YouTube is sometimes like a virtual classroom to me. I can watch other foley artists at work because there are so many making-of videos where foley artists show how they created the sounds for a particular film. This is often
TV station Euronews paid a visit to our foley studio and made a great video and article about our work. Lead foley artist Ronnie van der Veer showed the crew around and demonstrated some of his favorite foley sounds. Learn