In this video on Youtube, Randy Thom (sound designer and re-recording mixer for Forrest Gump) talks about the process of creating sound for the ping-pong sequence in the film Forrest Gump.
According to Thom, "all of the ping-pong sounds that you hear in the movie were done in post-production" because "none of the sounds that were recorded when the camera was rolling were useable".
As simple as this might sound, each of the ping-pong sounds were recorded individually and the sound recordists "used various kinds of paddles", hiting the balls "off various kinds of surfaces".
When recording foley for Sound Exercise 1, I took care to make sure each sound was recorded on the same surface as seen on screen. However, Randy Thom and the sound recording team for Forrest Gump took the mindset that "we're going for what the best sound is, not necessarily literally what you're seeing on the screen" - yet all the sounds in the sequence sound appropriate for the surfaces we're seeing on-screen. This is a good reminder of how flexible sound recording can be.
Another technique I've been trying to employ for the current sound exercise has been to record sounds in sync with the picture, rather than recording sounds separately and creating sync in editing software. This is largely to save time in the edit, but also because I have a tendency to record too few sound effects and have to repeat sounds in the edit.
This wasn't the method used on Forrest Gump - because they recorded each hit separately, meaning, Thom says, "editors worked through the night to cut each one of those hits in sync", which, he says, "was a huge job".
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