Barton Fink Clock Editing and Mixing

For the clock ticking I drew out of the ticks to make the length of time Barton was waiting around and even walking to the desk seem a lot longer than it actually was. I also make the hotel seem bigger as it feels like he takes a while to get anywhere or for people to get to him.

When he is walking in and looking around it helped to show Barton really taking in everything but also makes the hotel feel like there is no sense of time.This sticks with the particular old fashioned themes of the hotel as though it is not connected to the world around it and is actually a separate entity altogether.

I wanted to draw particular attention to the tick so I kept the panning central and it doesn't follow the camera/audience perspective around the foyer. This makes the it very direct sounding and is more that the clock is a way of telling the audience that this hotel really doesn't have a concept of time.


As Barton heads further into the hotel the clock gets louder and louder to signify that the deeper you go into this place the more lost in time and the more lost in the hotel you become helping to create the uneasy feeling of the place I am trying to achieve.