BACKSTAGE INTERVIEW
CATEGORY: Achievement in sound mixing
INTERVIEW WITH: Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
FILM: "Inception"
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Q. Working on a movie with such an intricate design between the visual effects and the camera work and the production design, what were the greatest challenges for you as sound designers stepping into this film?
A. We aren't actually the sound designers, we're the recording mixers, so our job is to blend all the sound together. The sound designer is Richard King who will be out shortly. The picture is so rich, so much going on in the frame, beautiful footage, incredible costuming, incredible production values, the sound, and when you have the image with all the pieces there, the sound just fills in whatever gaps are left in between those fantastic crafts. So the richer the image, the richer the sound. And definitely in this film we had that in spades.
Q. Was the mixing of the sound different because in so much of the film you were trying to emulate the dreamscape rather than potentially real sounds in the mixing of them?
A. [Hirschberg] Yeah, yeah. One of the things that Chris wanted to do with the soundtrack was to kind of delineate the different layers or levels as you're going down from a dream into another dream into another dream, playing a song, slowing it down or speeding it up (unintelligible). And so we did the same thing with other elements in the soundtrack, a gunshot that turns into thunder, the thunder that turns into an earthquake, or rain that turns into an ocean, as you go down the levels. So that was our piece of that expression. Those were the tools we used to do that.
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