Now, the Fandom Princess wasn’t always off on adventures. She always managed to put aside time for her to work on her many scholarly homework assignments, such as reading scrolls, researching in the libraries, and working on her arithmetic. One day, while she was doing such in her room, she heard a loud thump, thump, thump from the floor above her. It dawned on her that she was not the only one who had their own chambers in the castle. One of her worst enemies, Sophie, was able to have one of her own since her parents invented the star-gazers (piece of junk that it still was, they were pretty wealthy).

She heard Ghost growl next to her and nodded in response. “I’m not happy about her either, Ghost, but what do you suggest I do?”

Suddenly, it dawned on her. She would develop a way to imitate the sounds that Sophie was doing and then produce them so that they would go up through the ceiling to her room. She closed her History of Ogres book and raced to the visit Artemis in the library. Below, you shall find my foley assignment, which was really cool to do! I knew what a foley artist was before the assignment, being that I really want to work in film one day, and so actually being able to be like a little foley artist in training was something that I was able to delve right into.

One of the first things I did was make a list of the things in the Charlie Chaplin clip that I would need to imitate a sound for. I had the first 30 seconds (born in July baby!) and so this was what I came up with:

• fast paced running/scampering
• the circus door opening then closing
• scampering/slow steps
• messing with the door to try and unlock it.
• the log falling and trapping the door

Next came figuring out how to make the sounds. I stumbled on this for a little bit. I didn’t have any loud tap shoes or anything and my entire carpet is carpeted, except awkwardly in the kitchen, and so I tried to figure out how to make the sounds of me running loud enough. First I tried using two of my large textbooks to run in place on. It didn’t have the effect that I wanted, so I tried using crumpled pieces of paper. That did work! So the running was taken care of.

For the door opening and closing, I managed to fiddle around with one of my desk drawers. It made it all the better that I had some heavy moving things in the drawer that made it seem more real. For the scampering, I used smaller steps on the paper to accomplish that! The log falling and the almost quiet movement that Charlie does halted my momentum for a bit. However, after more fidgeting, I settled on using a pullout drawer underneath my desk and pushing it closed to imitate the log. The quiet movement was done by me messing around with my various tools in the drawer, such as the boxes of staples and paper clips that I had.

And here is the finished product!

Sounds alright, yeah? I hope to get more practice doing this sort of thing specifically. Once I finished it, I realized it wasn’t as hard and daunting as I thought it would be. It was actually a bunch of fun!