What do tasers, dried oranges, and lawn rollers have in common?

They're all used to create movie sound effects in the most utterly bizarre and unexpected ways imaginable.

Seriously, you'll never guess what cinematic sounds those dried oranges are repurposed to create.

As it turns out, most of us moviegoers overlook one of cinema's most important elements, the sound effects.

So from whooshing lightsavers and gallant nights to screaming aliens, animal impersonations, and beyond,

today we're going to learn how they make the most famous sound effects in Hollywood.

You're listening. You're listening to be amazed. in Hollywood.

So how do you're listening? You're listening to be amazed. So how do movies handle sound to begin with?

Well, when movies are filmed, those big, long boom microphones you see in behind-the-scenes

footage are focused on capturing the actor's dialogue. The director and sound engineers will do their

best to cut out other distracting background noises like footsteps, body movement, and other assorted

environmental sounds that might make hearing the words difficult. It's a foley artist's job to recreate these background sounds or replace them with newer, more

impactful sounds in a studio so they can be added back into the movie with fully adjustable

volume levels when the movie is being edited.

Paired with an ingenious combo of audio mixing effects from equalizers, compressors, and reverbs to distortion effects and beyond, the end results of these Foley artists and sound mixer team-ups are absolutely mind-blowing.

With Foley artists getting their name from American sound effects artist Jack Donovan Foley, these particular sound experts are wizards of scene building,

and when they're doing their strange fascinating jobs correctly, you wouldn't even notice.

Foley artists will, for example, own a variety of shoes to perfectly simulate the footwear

worn by the character on screen, and their studio will often contain a Fo fully pit that lets them walk on different

substances like sand and dirt.

Sometimes mimicking the characters on screen requires some incredibly specific movements like

donning plastic packaging to mimic a scientist in a hazmat suit, or stepping on a bean bag to simulate boots crunching through deep snow.

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