How an iPhone and a hairy hamster create magic movie sound

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Movies are often described as a visual medium, but what we hear has as much impact as what we see.

Burn made his name working on the sound for the famous Guinness Surfer advert, as well as the avant-garde Scarlett Johansson film Under The Skin. Director Yorgos Lanthimos was so impressed with Burn’s soundscapes that he recruited Burn to work on his highly acclaimed and highly idiosyncratic films The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and his new movie The Favourite — in US theatres on 21 November and Australia and the UK from 26 December.

Starring Olivia Colman, Rachael Weisz and Emma Stone as feuding noblewomen, this blackly comic period tale required Burn and his team to recreate the sound of an 18th-century palace — using 21st-century technology.

I’ve always been fascinated by the behind the scenes work of foley artists, sound engineers, and sound designers.