Foley

In film, the use of in camera audio is a bad move. The quality of the audio can never compare to if it were recorded with a professional microphone in a professional setting. This is where Foley comes into play; the practise of reproducing the audio in a film by overdubbing it in a studio and subsequently mixing it into the edit.

An example of Foley in use.

As you can see, the people in the video simply need to follow the onscreen action with whatever object they can use to recreate the sound you would normally hear. In some cases, you don't even need to use the same object as what is onscreen to make the correct sound, like when the woman slices play-doh to simulate a fish being cut open about 26 seconds into the video.

As long as the audio is put together with the video and mixed correctly, the audience will never realise how the sound is actually made, and the suspension of disbelief will continue.

Editing To the Beat

Editing to the beat is a simple technique in which you cut a video to the beat of a song. This is mainly used in music videos but is also included in many films and TV series to create a rhythmic effect that helps the flow of the final edit.

Burning Heart by Survivor

This music video features cuts that occur on the beat of the son quite frequently. It was very appropriate to cut the video this way as the edit has a good sense of rhythm and pace when one watches it.

Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits

As this music video is an earlier example of such, the editing wasn't as on the beat as you cuts and shots that go on for a while. The sense of pace and rhythm in the video is then lost, which makes the video somewhat awkward to watch as one is constantly having to anticipate the next cut.