What began my investigation was a dog eating an apple. I was sitting in one room while my boyfriend fed his dog in another and the sound filtered through, and what I could hear, it was monstrous. It got me thinking on the minds ability to create images from sound alone, and the role sound plays in creating a narrative. This was my starting point, and from here I further researched what kinds of foley noises could be achieved with simple objects or bodies. The dog eating the apple became a starting point for a narrative and as this grew I experimented with different ways to create the sounds to go along with it. In investigating other aspects of foley that I was interested in, I considered other narratives, such as a fight scene, as while watching the Youtube series ‘Nightwing’ I had seen how poor sound effects can ruin the suspension of disbelief needed for an effective fight scene. This appealed to me, as over the course of my investigations I had come across a ‘Mythbusters episode which detailed the layers of sounds necessary to create a convincing punch sound, which consisted of slapping a piece of meat, thumping a chest, the swish of a dowel rod and the crack of a walnut. With the knowledge of how to create the necessary sounds I looked further into it, but concluded that it wasn’t feasible due to the time and expertise needed to create an effective fight scene, as well as the safety concerns. I returned to the dog eating the apple as my starting point, and created from there a storyline which could facilitate some of the fighting noises I had been interested in. Over the course of brainstorming I varied back and forth between having video or not, then decided on using limited visual input in order to understand the relationship between the sound and visual components more fully, but with a reliance on sound and soundscapes which I would not have a chance to explore in other projects. My final product includes a limited number of the sounds I recorded, as well as some found on public domain websites. These sounds I looked into recreating for the most part, but for the recorded growls and snarls of dogs there was no substitute without finding my own feral pack. Over the course of this investigation I have learnt a lot about the recording of sound, but the greatest knowledge has come from the editing and mixing of sounds, especially in the absence of video, as the smallest sound becomes important when isolated.