More fun with Foley

By happy coincidence, a friend of mine in Beijing sent me this link a few weeks ago - quite unaware that I was teaching a course on 'Sound in Film' at the moment.

Evidently this 'musicless video' idea has become quite a fad on Youtube in the last couple of years, but I hadn't come across it before. This is a particularly imaginative one, recreating what might have been the 'live sound' during the shoot for the famous video of Mick Jagger and David Bowie covering Dancing in the Street for LiveAid.

This provides one possibility for the final assessment project for my students on this course unit (although I think most of them will choose a more straightforward piece of dramatic action to re-record the soundtrack for, such as this). [The original video can be seen here.]

This version of OK Go's award-winning treadmill routine for their song Here It Goes Again is perhaps even better (or maybe it's just that I've always loved the original video!).

Both of these soundtracks were created by Youtuber Mario Wienerroither.