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At least, that\u2019s how I see it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"interview-question\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AK:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, do you have an archive of recorded sounds?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JB:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When creating a soundscape for a film, I don\u2019t just turn to my sound library and type the sound I want into the search bar. I first go out into the real world and record things that are as close as possible to the sounds I need. I always make sure to record them in a documentary way, without sensationalising anything. I then take the recorded sounds to the studio and edit them cinematically into the film. So, every film I work on starts with a few weeks of field recordings. Each film includes a few thousand sounds; half of them are from my archive, and the other half is newly recorded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"interview-question\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AK:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How long does it usually take to record the sounds for a film?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JB<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am currently working on a film called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamnet<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Chlo\u00e9 Zhao. We spent about three weeks recording riverbanks and people. Overall, it has been around three months of sound recording. Afterwards, probably six months of editing and three months of mixing. 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Image Courtesy of A24."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p class=\"interview-question\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AK:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What was your initial reaction when Jonathan Glazer told you about his idea for the soundscape of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zone of Interest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JB:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was terrified, frankly. When Jon told me about <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zone of Interest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, he mentioned that we were going to do a lot of the film through soundscapes. The realisation that I had to research and understand everything about the Auschwitz concentration camp was intimidating. Sorry, that may not be the answer you were looking for. On a more fundamental level, I was overwhelmed by the idea of telling so much of a story just through sound. Of course, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to tell such an incredibly powerful story through sound. Jon is an incredible director who understands that an image does one thing, and a soundscape tells another story. He really knows how to use sound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"interview-question\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AK:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What were the first steps in working on the soundscape for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zone of Interest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JB:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I spent a few weeks reading all the Holocaust literature I could find. I researched testimonies and reports from survivors and guards. I immersed myself in this world as best I could. In the first few weeks, I couldn&#8217;t believe that I would have to do this every day for two years. But it was an honour and a privilege to be part of this journey and to deepen my understanding of it. Jonathan said, \u2018I&#8217;m going to Poland to make this film, and when I come back in about six months, you have to be an expert on what the Auschwitz concentration camp sounded like in 1943.&#8217; I wanted to be sure that I had done my absolute best to understand what was the best sound for that day, that time, and that year. If it was a human voice, I wanted to match it to a story I had read or an event that had happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"interview-question\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AK:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How exactly did you record sounds that sounded like the Auschwitz concentration camp next to a family home?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JB:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jon didn&#8217;t want a bunch of actors in a voice booth pretending or imitating sounds. So, it was about going out into the world for a year and a half, recording sound on location. The sounds of the guards, for example, were the sounds of drunk young men shouting in the streets of Germany at night. For the sounds of people screaming in pain, we went to Paris to record the riots, screams, and cries there. Essentially, it involved travelling around and recording people. Over time, we realised we didn\u2019t need specific words to tell the story. A cry of pain from behind a wall in Auschwitz is enough for our brains to fill in the gaps. Jon and I listened to hundreds of recordings and marked those that could work as guards or prisoners. I used these sounds to create what we called \u2018scenarios\u2019. Then, using our research, we categorised them geographically and chronologically. For instance, the camp orchestra always played in the morning when they went out.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":117575,"id":117575,"title":"MV5BMzQzZjRkMTYtZDc4ZC00MWQwLTk0YzItNGRmNjIzZTc5MGFjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTIwODk1NTQ@._V1_","filename":"MV5BMzQzZjRkMTYtZDc4ZC00MWQwLTk0YzItNGRmNjIzZTc5MGFjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTIwODk1NTQ@._V1_.jpg","filesize":317511,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MV5BMzQzZjRkMTYtZDc4ZC00MWQwLTk0YzItNGRmNjIzZTc5MGFjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTIwODk1NTQ@._V1_.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/johnnie-burn-you-can-close-your-eyes-but-you-cant-close-your-ears\/mv5bmzqzzjrkmtytzdc4zc00mwqwltk0yzitngrmnjizztc5mgfjxkeyxkfqcgdeqxvymtiwodk1ntq-_v1_\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"mv5bmzqzzjrkmtytzdc4zc00mwqwltk0yzitngrmnjizztc5mgfjxkeyxkfqcgdeqxvymtiwodk1ntq-_v1_","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":117282,"date":"2024-10-01 10:31:35","modified":"2024-10-01 10:31:35","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MV5BMzQzZjRkMTYtZDc4ZC00MWQwLTk0YzItNGRmNjIzZTc5MGFjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTIwODk1NTQ@._V1_.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":72,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MV5BMzQzZjRkMTYtZDc4ZC00MWQwLTk0YzItNGRmNjIzZTc5MGFjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTIwODk1NTQ@._V1_.jpg","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1080,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MV5BMzQzZjRkMTYtZDc4ZC00MWQwLTk0YzItNGRmNjIzZTc5MGFjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTIwODk1NTQ@._V1_.jpg","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1080,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MV5BMzQzZjRkMTYtZDc4ZC00MWQwLTk0YzItNGRmNjIzZTc5MGFjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTIwODk1NTQ@._V1_.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MV5BMzQzZjRkMTYtZDc4ZC00MWQwLTk0YzItNGRmNjIzZTc5MGFjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTIwODk1NTQ@._V1_-1536x864.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MV5BMzQzZjRkMTYtZDc4ZC00MWQwLTk0YzItNGRmNjIzZTc5MGFjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTIwODk1NTQ@._V1_.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MV5BMzQzZjRkMTYtZDc4ZC00MWQwLTk0YzItNGRmNjIzZTc5MGFjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTIwODk1NTQ@._V1_.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":10,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MV5BMzQzZjRkMTYtZDc4ZC00MWQwLTk0YzItNGRmNjIzZTc5MGFjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTIwODk1NTQ@._V1_.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1080}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"10","caption":"The Zone of Interest. Image Courtesy of A24."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p class=\"interview-question\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AK:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How did you recreate the sound of devices that were used at the time?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JB:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of the weapons available to the guards in the concentration camp were weapons from the First World War; newer weapons were used at the front. So, we found the right weapons and recorded them in rooms surrounded by concrete. Block 11, the execution block, was about a hundred metres away from the garden where the film is set. There were roughly 90 deaths a day from gunshots alone. So, we knew we had to integrate these sounds accordingly to make it all historically accurate. Everything was recorded as precisely as possible, at the right distance, and with similar acoustics. We researched the vehicles that would have passed by the house and recorded the sounds of those motorcycles and cars. Everything you hear in the film was specially recorded. It was an enormously long recording process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"interview-question\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AK:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does that also apply to sounds inside the house?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JB:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes. We had a multi-camera setup and four different microphones in each room. It took many months to listen to all recordings within the house during filming. For example, if a baby was crying upstairs in a room, we wanted to keep that sound. This compilation of sounds makes the final product extremely realistic. On top of that, we layered sounds from outside the house. It was only in the last three months that we added the sounds of the concentration camp we had created. We pretty much completed the family drama with the sounds of Auschwitz.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":117579,"id":117579,"title":"MV5BNjUxYWIwNzYtMWY0My00NTU4LWIzZjUtMzE5Y2IzMzVlZDhkXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_","filename":"MV5BNjUxYWIwNzYtMWY0My00NTU4LWIzZjUtMzE5Y2IzMzVlZDhkXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg","filesize":835570,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MV5BNjUxYWIwNzYtMWY0My00NTU4LWIzZjUtMzE5Y2IzMzVlZDhkXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/johnnie-burn-you-can-close-your-eyes-but-you-cant-close-your-ears\/mv5bnjuxywiwnzytmwy0my00ntu4lwizzjutmze5y2izmzvlzdhkxkeyxkfqcgc-_v1_\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"mv5bnjuxywiwnzytmwy0my00ntu4lwizzjutmze5y2izmzvlzdhkxkeyxkfqcgc-_v1_","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":117282,"date":"2024-10-01 10:31:46","modified":"2024-10-01 10:31:46","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1071,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MV5BNjUxYWIwNzYtMWY0My00NTU4LWIzZjUtMzE5Y2IzMzVlZDhkXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":71,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MV5BNjUxYWIwNzYtMWY0My00NTU4LWIzZjUtMzE5Y2IzMzVlZDhkXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1071,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MV5BNjUxYWIwNzYtMWY0My00NTU4LWIzZjUtMzE5Y2IzMzVlZDhkXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1071,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MV5BNjUxYWIwNzYtMWY0My00NTU4LWIzZjUtMzE5Y2IzMzVlZDhkXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1071,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MV5BNjUxYWIwNzYtMWY0My00NTU4LWIzZjUtMzE5Y2IzMzVlZDhkXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_-1536x857.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":857,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MV5BNjUxYWIwNzYtMWY0My00NTU4LWIzZjUtMzE5Y2IzMzVlZDhkXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1071,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MV5BNjUxYWIwNzYtMWY0My00NTU4LWIzZjUtMzE5Y2IzMzVlZDhkXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":10,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MV5BNjUxYWIwNzYtMWY0My00NTU4LWIzZjUtMzE5Y2IzMzVlZDhkXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1071}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"10","caption":"The Zone of Interest. Image Courtesy of A24."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p class=\"interview-question\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AK:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, you essentially made two films?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JB:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jon described it exactly like that. He said there were two films: the film you see and the film you hear. Film one was the family drama that took place in the house, with an underlying soundscape of babies, dogs, children, laughter, maids, people doing laundry, and walking up and down the stairs. Film two was made in the final months of the post-production process \u2013 the subversion of the whole thing to make it as realistic as possible, which is to say, the sounds that the family would have heard from across the wall. From a distance, standing right where the house was, we could imagine what it must have sounded like. Those were the layers we had to add. Jon, I, and Mica Levi, the composer, discussed this process. But it was one thing to discuss the soundscape; seeing how the completed film worked in practice was a whole different story. It was horrifying and much more powerful than I had imagined. It was incredible how well it worked. You can close your eyes, but you can&#8217;t close your ears.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"interview-question\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AK:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What was the film you enjoyed working on the most?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JB:<\/span> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the Skin<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was so important to me. Before that, I did another film called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Birth<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but it didn\u2019t go very well. Back then, I was only doing TV commercials, and so when Jon athan made me sound director, I didn\u2019t really know what I was doing. After filming, he said, \u2018Find out what it is that you were lacking because you\u2019re going to be sound director again on another film.\u2019 So, I tried to figure out what I would do differently next time. For me, it was about going to Scotland, where his next film was being shot, visiting the exact locations, and recording all my own sounds. I discovered that I liked using real sounds, mixing them, and telling a story with them. I was amazed at how powerful sound can be \u2013 it can tell a story and convey emotion or subtext. With <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the Skin<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, I discovered how I wanted to create sound.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"interview-question\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AK:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why weren\u2019t you happy with your sound for the film <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Birth<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JB:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was so basic. I\u2019d only mixed TV commercials before, and TV commercials in 2003 were just loud. The only thing you had to do in commercials was crank up the compressor and get the sound volume up. We did a test screening of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Birth<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli came to watch it. About ten minutes in, she stood up and said, \u2018Who mixed this? It\u2019s terrible,\u2019 and I got fired. [laughs] Later on, I was rehired as a sound designer, but not as head of sound anymore. I\u2019d never thought about how a film needs to be put together, sound-wise. It hadn\u2019t even occurred to me. I spent at least three years thinking, \u2018I\u2019m never going to work on a film again. I hate that world. It\u2019s awful and dangerous, and there are dragons, and I don\u2019t understand it,\u2019 and then Jon came back and said, &#8216;You&#8217;re going to do another film.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":117573,"id":117573,"title":"ZOI_02776-Splash-2023.jpg","filename":"ZOI_02776-Splash-2023.jpg.webp","filesize":230290,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ZOI_02776-Splash-2023.jpg.webp","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/johnnie-burn-you-can-close-your-eyes-but-you-cant-close-your-ears\/zoi_02776-splash-2023-jpg\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"zoi_02776-splash-2023-jpg","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":117282,"date":"2024-10-01 10:31:32","modified":"2024-10-01 10:31:32","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/webp","type":"image","subtype":"webp","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1081,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ZOI_02776-Splash-2023.jpg.webp","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":72,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ZOI_02776-Splash-2023.jpg.webp","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1081,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ZOI_02776-Splash-2023.jpg.webp","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1081,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ZOI_02776-Splash-2023.jpg.webp","large-width":1920,"large-height":1081,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ZOI_02776-Splash-2023.jpg-1536x865.webp","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":865,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ZOI_02776-Splash-2023.jpg.webp","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1081,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ZOI_02776-Splash-2023.jpg.webp","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":10,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ZOI_02776-Splash-2023.jpg.webp","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1081}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"10","caption":"The Zone of Interest. Image Courtesy of A24."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p class=\"interview-question\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AK:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is bad sound design for you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JB:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If it\u2019s not subtle enough. You can overdo a soundscape when you make a point too obvious. To me, it\u2019s awful when an audience immediately thinks, \u2018Yeah, I get it.\u2019 For example, the ticking of a clock that is supposed to sound stressful. If you\u2019re turning it up really loud, it\u2019s so obvious. There could be a reason to do that; there are diagnostic sounds that are extraordinarily loud and unsubtle and that can be used as a stylistic device, but for the most part, that\u2019s not the case.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"interview-question\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AK:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is there a sound you personally like?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JB:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I really like the sound of cracking ice on a big lake. It has all sorts of layers and high pitches. I\u2019m quite into that at the moment. The one I find most useful, though, is air, wind: natural, empty ambience. It\u2019s a beautiful blank canvas. You might listen to it and think, \u2018There isn\u2019t anything there.\u2019 But I keep a collection of different sounds of nothingness because, as soon as you hear it, it tells you so much on a subconscious level, like white noise rustling. 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