The Willows - Sound for film project

Great to work again with Blue Light Films, after the success of our 48 hour film project earlier in the summer. This was one of the most involved projects I've taken on — a sound design piece for a short horror film that really pushed me to get experimental. The first stage was all about location recording, spent on one of the last summer days by the river. Working with the MixPre 10 again, I used a stereo XY setup with a pair of lav mics to capture the atmospherics of the location. The second stage was all in the studio, where things got a bit more experimental. I recorded some samples using a contact mic, and ran them through some weird effects chains — distortion, granulation, time-stretching — to create something unsettling and otherworldly. Then I mixed those processed sounds with the location recordings, layering them in a way that felt both organic and unnerving. This project was a great chance to think deeply about how all aspects of the sonic process contribute to the overall vision of the piece — from the moment of recording to the final stages of post-production.