Sound design update

I watched the film whose sound design was done by Jon Deutch, the production grad student I met with a couple weeks ago. After just a couple minutes, I was convinced that he should be my sound designer. His work was very atmospheric, and I felt like I was inside the film I was watching. Although I was only able to watch it in stereo, he had created the sound design for a 5.1 system, which I hope to have for my thesis.

I also gave him an animatic from my thesis that he watched, and his feedback helped convince me even more that he should be doing my sound design. I'd provided him with only the animatic with dialogue (and no music), and it was also a basic grayscale Maya Playblast with no lighting. I tried to limit the amount of information I was giving him, to see what someone who specializes in sound would imagine hearing, and avoid pushing him in a specific creative direction. I also did this in order to try to guage how well I had placed the visuals with the dialogue, and see if things made sense to a viewer who had never seen anything from my project before. I was glad I did this, because his thoughts were very much in line with what I was hoping for: creating a space that is occupied and later very quiet, with sounds appropriate to the era in which things were taking place. Jon has a great grasp of where I want to go with my film and how he plans on approaching it, so I'm excited to say that I'll be working with him.