Made By Other People.

Welcome to Foley Fridays “Karaoke”. Much like you going out with friends to sing sloppily otop hit pop songs once a month my friends and I will take a scene from a movie, remove all of the dialogue/sound effects (foley) and sloppily record our own live. No editing or mixing involved! No bouncing ball required!

FFkaraoke, frankenstein from Foley Fridays on Vimeo.

For our first foray into this Karaoke-type ordeal my good friend Michael Pierro and I tackled the classic “It’s Alive” scene from 1931’s Frankenstein. Michael is another Made By Other People person, a very talented director and all around excellent human being. We went to Ryerson University together and right out of school co-wrote and directed a short Fanfare. Since then he’s made more shorts than I can count on all my digits (maybe a bit of an exaggeration) including Bacon and Eggs and Hey George. We used a handful of items found in my apartment earlier this week to recreate the sound of the world’s most infamous (fictional) lab experiment.

The “Its Alive” scene is what everyone pays homage to when doing a Frankenstein spoof or just when creating a mad scientist’s lab. Though I think that besides the giant cadaver being raised and struck by lightening it’s a pretty run of the mill lab found in a dank and dreary castle. No bubbling concoctions, no giant robots and no overly large rubber gloves. Just you’re run of the mill knobs, levers and electric arching. I suppose every cliché has to start somewhere though – and this is a good place to start anything if I do say so myself.

More Karaoke next month!