The Foley artist is the guy who puts the special effects in a movie during editing. He puts the necessary sounds to give it the dramatic feeling.
The sounds made by a firing gun, a kick or footsteps in a movie are all the work of a Foley artist. He puts the music that accompanies the action in a movie and the laughter that accompanies the jokes in a comedy.
All Nigerian movies seem to use the same Foley artist. The guy who plays the keyboard when the wicked lady is putting poison in the food or when she turns into a snake.
In real life however, suspense has no sound, a kick in your teeth is painful but not as dramatic and footsteps don’t make loud sounds. Unless of course it’s a lady walking in a quiet room with “Pams”.
In our daily experiences, there is no soundtrack of Celine Dion singing “My heart will go on” when we are falling in love, neither does Adele sing” never mind I’ll find someone like yuuuuuu” when we are heart broken.
Hell, there will be no loved ones holding our hands as we breath our last.
The ground slaps differently.
Indeed, the imagined is often more colourful than reality.
Like an AIMGlobal merchant, life overpromises but underdelivers.
Life is life
Fabio