Oscar winning editor Tom Rolf (December 31, 1931 – July 14, 2014) as pictured below is known for his editorial work on films such as Heat (1995) , Taxi Driver (1976), Equilibrium (2002) and many more. however it is his editorial work on The Horse whisperer which I have been most inspired by, especially for the See You Soon project.
See You Soon tackles a mother and a teenage daughter relationship which involves an argument over the mother turning off the daughters music for it being too loud (temporarily in script). In The Horse Whisperer there is a scene in which Robert MacLean (Sam Neill) and his wife Annie MacLean (Kristin Scott Thomas) are arguing in the kitchen as their marriage starts to deteriorate.
they were both recorded with separate microphones which meant they had their own individual tracks when it came to post production. so when in the editorial stage the two audio tracks were overlapped to which meant there was less of the atmospheric air track causing the two to interrupt and shout over one another. At times this also caused the pace of the cuts to build in order to keep up with the lip syncing. This overall gave more of a hectic whist realistic feel to the scene rather than each actor giving their lines accordingly. This is definitely a technique to consider in post production if the actresses for See You Soon are each micro-phoned up or recorded at different moments in time.
No comments:
Post a Comment