I’ve been putting a lot of energy into my new film “Latency”… My whole weekend was spent perfecting the audio. For those of you who are film editors, writers, directors, or generally involved with movie making… You know how important a good audio mix can be. When your dealing with film, 90% of what you see… is what you hear. You can have a jumpy overexposed image and get away with it… but if you slack on the audio your dead in the water.With that said… only 20% of the audio I captured on location during production was useable, so I had to manufacture 80% of the audio in the studio. Folly work took a day and a half and scoring took maybe 5 hours. I wasn’t alone throughout the process, though! The actors (which happen to be musicians, like me) came over and really helped the whole process…. without those guys it would have taken me forever.
The psychology of sound is by far the most exciting thing to work on! This particular film is a psychological horror flick, so the film is filled with dark ambient atmosphere and uncomfortable silence. I wanted the viewer to feel uncomfortable… I wanted to place the viewer in a situation that if heor she had actually been there, they would have turned around and left. The hardest part of recording audio is remembering NOT to over do it. It’s so easy to over score or take attention away from the story with overdone audio. Suddlety is king.. It’s to small fragments of sound that build fear and tension.
I’ll be releasing the film in about a month. I’m entering the film into DFWindie film festival at UTA Arlington in May. Wish us luck!
