I recently read an article by Walter Murch a wonderfully talented film and sound Editor, I think of him as a poet able to group ideas feelings into succinct lines of thoughts. He talked about the mind set of the director when on set,who has to live in 3 different spaces, the past the present and the future. You really realise how true that is when you're in post production.
The PAST: Any creative, financial, practical decision you make has a profound effect on the way the shooting of the film goes and beyond that, what ramification it will have in the editing process and post production. What seems like a short cut often comes and bites you later!!!
THE PRESENT: When your're on set you have to be present with the actors and crew to feel what they need on that day, that hour and how best to help them.
THE FUTURE: ANY DECISION that's made, is made pretty much made forever. Unless there is a budget for re shoots and major pick up's it is pretty much it. So as we were sitting on the sound stage working with Kacper and Marcin all the decisions that you wish were made differently you see or hear over and over again. You see the shirt that you wish you could change, or the shot you wished you could have improved, the dynamics, colour on and on..on!! But at the end of the day, art, whether its film, theatre or architecture evolves, it would be easy to fall under the spell of perfectionism rather then learning and engaging those lessons in the next project. and the one after. One of the major learning curves with sound was that when we were shooting the Polish Part of the film because of the remote location and other colourful reasons we were not able to watch the rushes or hear the sound. Can you imagine our surprise, horror when we review the footage and realised that some of the scenes had almost no sound!! (This is I think every directors/Producers nightmare) So thank God that we could do ADR with Daryl who plays Jan here in Australia and Kasia and Pawel when we arrived in Poland. Part 3 coming up!!!
Below is what happens when the people in the Kindgom go a bit MAD!!
Annika talks with Kasia ( this is a beautiful scene in the film)
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