Sound Effects - SFX Production

I considered adding in some sound effects into my video, as to better immerse the viewer in any action that might be displayed. Notably I was able to make the sounds of a sword fight, a horse galloping and some wind.

The horse noise was made by clapping my leather wallet against my chest, I think it turned out quite close to the real thing. I could also layer up the audio as to create the sound of an army on horses and such which might also be cool.

For the sword fight I used cutlery, namely a fork and knife. I clanged them together a couple of times and made sure to just graze them across each other as some fights would include parrying and grazed hits rather than direct blocks and blows. It doesn't sound too realistic, in fact they're quite dull in sound.

To create some ambient wind, I thought of blowing into microphone. I was quite out of breath but in editing I could perhaps extend or loop the noise to make it last longer. It seemed to work but the issue would be blowing directly into the mic may cause lots of harsh grainy audio, so I would need to blow alongside the microphone instead.