One of the projects FN is working on is Banshee, which is a library of sounds for audio drama producers to be able to purchase and use in their own projects, as the main sound designer involved I’ve been tasked with collecting sounds. One of the sound effects in the most high demand is footsteps, and so I went in a few days ago with my shotgun mic, zoom h4n and a selection of shoes. I booked out the foley studio in LCC and spent some time wearing the different shoes as well not wearing them at all, and walking, jumping, shuffling and running on various surfaces, it took up more time than expected and so I was only able to do wood and stone but they came out very well. I then got home and edited through, seprating the different footwear, movements and surfaces, labelling the files and then uploading them to the Banshee dropbox. From there I had to use the shared spreadsheet and put in how long each file was, how much effort it took to acquire, what tags would be appropriate and what category of sounds they were. All of this would then allow someone else to take these sounds and properly put them into packs to be sold to the customer.
I’m going to return to LCC and record the rest of the surfaces, making sure to bring the same shoes so it remains consistent.