Foley work Singing in the rain

We looked at the creation of the sound mixing in the titular number of singing in the rain. Most of the sound being added in post looking at the additions of dialog, song, orchestras and tapping not to mention general sound effect. Most of the numbers in the film masterclasses in early sound editing the obvious issue with filming a musical number in the rain being the overwhelming sound of rain influencing any musical attempts. 

So, we attempted to recreate the editing, cutting the sound to the original clip and re-editing it. First was the dialogue. The scene a short one of a few shared lines between characters Kathys character and Don Lockwood as he says goodbye, the original scene somewhat obvious with appearing that Kathy played by Debbie Rynolds may have said something else in the original cut. Rosie and I attempted to recreate the dialogue going over the lines then whilst watching the scene meticulously lining up what we said with the silent image using a RODE microphone, not unlike what the very characters do in the film. 

Then there was the additional foley primarily the rain which we recreated through two methods: one from separate heights dropping buckets of water onto umbrellas to record the sound of impact so use as the background looping audio. Then for the sounds of Kelly interacting with the rain we used the simple tactics of splashing our hands in buckets of water similar to how Kelly kicks the water beneath him. Any additional sound we created manually or through free licencing, sound like the door closing or an umbrella against a railing we could recreate but sounds like a car driving away we deemed too extensive to recreate. 

Then there was the sound of the tapping which we resorted to using drumsticks as none of us were exactly proficient in tap, that the same policy we used for the orchestral music we were provided through an audio file on account of the fact that again we were unable to access to a full orchestra capable of the song. 

Jake edited the film together pulling the original footage over the re-created audio to recreate the sequence to in my opinion high quality.