How Sounds Are Faked For Nature Documentaries | Movies Insider

It amazing how this person is LYING and FAKING information and is not showing any sign of remorse

“Macro lenses”. Yea go back to the fact checkers there

My life is a lie 😭 that's why I have trust issues

2:01 Spider 1: Listen bro! I tell you that there is someone there with a huuuuuge eye looking everything we do over here. Just a single eye by the way. It's true! I swear! Spider 2: oh shut up Mike, you have been totally paranoid lately. Last time you said you were abducted and the aliens took all your silk from your butt... you need to stop believing everything you see on the internet....

Fun fact: Auroras DO actually make a sound, rarely auroras make a low humming sound, along with ethereal cracking noises.

I guess I can understand why they do this but still surprising to find it’s fake

Greetings from Iceland! I want to correct what you said in the beginning: You CAN hear northern lights on rare occassions. I was once lucky enough to experience those sounds here in Iceland.

Coisas q nem reproduzem som e o cara inventando 🤡

Such skill. Marvellous! Foley-enhanced drama much preferred to the ludicrous 40-piece metropolitan orchestra that used to saturate earlier Attenborough documentaries! Occasionally a bit of over-the-top is okay: that huge drumbeat&rumble dubbed onto the surfacing of a sharp-toothed swamp creature had my girlfriend fall off the sofa. Did I laugh!

And then the producer smothers the sounds of the Foley artist with all these cutesy plucking violins etc., which completely undermines the segment. WHY??? What a waste.

They lied… how can we trust the media..

Pretty impressive if you manage to shoot across a valley with a macro lens 😅

Now, every time I watch any nature documentary, I will be imagining this a**hole smushing trashbags

It doesn’t really answers the questions. Why?? Wouldn’t it be truer (and probably better) if it just had the true noise?

Once you visualize some BBC sound designer with a boom mic splashing water about in his bath tub it's pretty hard to unsee it. The only silver lining is that you now get the opportunity to rain on everyone else's parade when they happen to be watching a nature doc.

Indeed life is fake

Why would you add music to your video when we’re all here to hear the faintest of sounds?

My god this woman talks too much! I just wanna hear the foley sounds!

I love this kind of Foley. But does anybody else think that, based on the clips shown, this guy is a bit.. lazy? Inaccurate?? Idk i would've done it very differently. You see a whale moving very slowly and gracefully, but you hear a small fish thrashing around. And the eq was very subpar from what I expected as well! Idk maybe I'm just a picky pompous prick

this is wrong, or atleast they should label it as such in the films

Imagine how boring nature shows would be without ASMR sounds 😆 it would be like watching a low budget YouTube doc

Okay. Okay, I feel ALMOST like Morty felt when he experience true level.

For some reason, I expected leather to be used on mushrooms. Honestly, it's a great choice because they have similat textures.

I feel like this breaks the rules of documentary... I thought you couldn't just make stuff up

These people are amazing. They made nature and animal sounds realistic. It really make me believe that those sounds were naturally produced. Kukos!

Losing a fingernail? Is he severely uncoordinated?

I have to say, the dumb unnatural sounds dubbed onto nature docs in the last couple of decades are really obtrusive to me - they're so obviously faked! We used to have subtle music, timed to the elements of the scene to bring us into the footage, now they're treating their documentaries like a fiction piece. Hate it. Still, well done on making such clever sounds, and thanks for pointing out to everyone that they're fake!

I feel so lied to, the universe as I know is literally a lie.

I had no idea nature sounds were non-natural...

Love this kind of documentary! As someone records for a living (mostly bands) but always really wanted to do sound for film, this is wonderful stuff. However, I must call out the utter *NONSENSE* about using proximity effect and that it is a 'dangerous move', and that the mic feeds back on itself and overloads? Absolutely BS.

I'm so upset dude

Actually, it's proven that the northern lights do make sounds the human ear can detect.

Stupid faking these. I also hate when they add music to nature documentaries. So dumb.

I lived five hundred miles north of the Arctic circle for a number of years. The nor lysen make a very specific sound. Remove the cellophane from a cigarette package and gently twist it.

So.... I was lied to all these years??????????

U ruined my documentary beliefs

"the Northern lights don't make a sound but when you see this clip you don't think about it" Literally no one thinks that the cymbal noises are made by the lights...

Damn lying bastards

I really don't need to hear eye lids open.

*me farting into a mason jar* = a Beluga whale yawning

Bullshit

I've always felt the foley sounds on nature docs were super obvious and sometimes cringey.

Umm I definitely think twice when I see the northern lights and hear symbols and wind chimes lol

8:50 if you saw that without knowing the context, you'd think that the guy just really needs to see a specialist

For the longest time I thought folly artists where just part of an SNL skit. It took me a while to realize this was serious.

it wasn't until 2:36 where I realised he wasn't talking to the camera but inside a call. What else is a lie?

I'd rather hear no sound effects instead than made up ones that make documentaries less real. Don't get me started on History or Discovery Channels 😑

You ppl understand that only foley artists really care about geeking over effects... Ppl watching the movie or show aren't thinking about it... At all. If it's close enough, it's good enough. 🙄

But why do they edit in tiger sounds for lions fighting? I've watched them long enough to know the difference.

the ant war documentaries and the sword sound