You want to cook with a broken arm?

Next step is CO2. Do it. This is a scene from season from season four of the TV show Breaking Bad. One of the main characters is

being forced to cook meth at gunpoint in a lab underneath an industrial laundromat.

The mood is tense and there's not a lot of dialogue, but that doesn't mean it's silent.

The jingling of handcuffs, ominous footsteps on a concrete floor,

the twist of a key, the mechanical lurch of a freight elevator.

Those sounds match the character. elevator.

Those sounds match the character's movements so precisely that you might think they were picked up by a microphone on the set.

But they were actually added in post-production by a guy with a bunch of makeshift

props and a suitcase full of shoes. My name is Greg Barbinel. I've been a Foley

artist for about 46 years.

As a Foley artist,

Barbinell is responsible for creating the smallest

and subtlest sounds in film and television.

From the swishing of a character's pants to the clink of a coffee cup

being set down on a saucer.

In a Hollywood that has become increasingly digitized, it's a job that still depends on the

human touch.

You're getting on the floor, you're picking up this chair,

you're moving it over here, you're grabbing a car door. You're throwing it on the ground. You're

jumping on it. You're taking a bat when you're hitting so-and-so. You're getting in the

dirt pit on your hands and knees.

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