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The Foley Grail, 3rd Edition
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The Foley Grail, 3rd Edition

by Vanessa Theme Ament
November 2021
Intermediate to advanced
284 pages
8h 20m
English
Routledge
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chapter | twelve

Chef or Cook?

Ingredients and Recipes

DOI: 10.4324/9781003008439-16

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If someone decides to pursue a career as a Foley artist, there comes a moment when they realize that the responsibility to create the recipe for the sound falls on the artist and not on someone else. This is when they must ask the question, “Am I a chef or a cook?” This is not a question to be taken lightly for, in reality, all Foley artists are some combination of both. However, if an artist is at the stage where you are asking how to make a sound or how to approach a particular technique in Foley, you are leaning toward being a cook, which is a great ...

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