CNET:
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.
You had me at “hairy hamster.” TMI?
Sound design is one of the most potentially amazing parts of any movie; I love reading or hearing about how it’s done.
Burn’s description of frequencies reminds me a bit of what tv composer Ron Jones said about his work on Star Trek TNG. Having ascertained the frequency of the ambient sound effects of, say, the Enterprise’s Bridge, he’d take pains to choose instruments and frequencies that wouldn’t compete with that background.