Monday, 27 April 2015

Barton Fink Bed Springs Editing and Mixing

For the bed I wanted it to fit the visuals of how weak the bed springs seemed. To do this I have EQ'd the springs to remove all body. This helps to give the impression of no comfort in the room. I also boosted the high frequencies of 2kHz and above 8kHz. This makes it sounds squeaky and irritating like it would keep you up all night and also give the idea that they couldn't support a human being. I wanted to convey that Barton wouldn't find any comfort in this hotel. That it would not help him with his writing but instead find ways to distract him and halt his progress further. The idea of bad sleeping conditions can build stresses and irritation and keeps with my theme or annoying frequencies and a place that just doesn't seem quite right.



I made a small repeating loop of a spring and duplicated it several times to get a constant irritating characteristic. I then have the volume slope down slowly making the springs feel like the can barely support anything. Even just putting the case down on the bed it continues for a while. Again this makes the sound loop in an annoying manner to distract Barton and keeps with the aesthetic of sounds continuing on for a prolonged period of time.


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