When a film is being recorded, it is really hard to get the sounds that the actors are making. It is hard to do this because when the actor is speaking the microphone cant pick up the small sounds that the actors are making. To stop this from happening they will add the majority of the sounds later when they are in the editing process or the post production part of the film. The editors can get the sounds from areas called sound library's where there is hundreds of different sounds that can be bought and added to the film; or the editing company will bring in people from the public to make the sounds, for example in the Hobbit. In the Hobbit they acquired a group of people to run across a field pretending to be scared and screaming and running. Simple actions like this will give the effect of terrified people running away from something In a film. This is called Foley, its when a specific sound is filmed for a visual in a film. Normally the sounds that are made for Foley are sounds like footsteps, the sound as characters move about and props.
In the 1930's sound effects became more popular as film makers would use them to create different sounds and then add them into a silent film. This is where 'talking pictures' came about. When silent films were being played they would also sometimes bring in an orchestra and make the sound tracks live in front of an audience so that the performance of the movie would be better as a whole. Jack Foley came up with the idea or recording live sound affects that went with the picture in the movie.
The video that I watched for me to understand all of this information is below.
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