Chapter 170: Sound Effects
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[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone] has entered its post-production stage, and Regal is straight back in the US.
The current requirement of the film is a lot of working on the sound effects, editing, and color grading.
Even though Red Studio has set up some technologies in England for reviewing the footage on a daily basis, nothing they can do there compares to what they have back at HQ.
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[Red Studio - HQ]
It was six-thirty in the morning, and the LA sky outside the sound stage hung low and grey.
Inside the recording studio, Leo Abrams stood alone, shifting his weight between his feet, like he was waiting for a verdict.
Leo is a Foley artist - not the kind of technician usually onboard when they think of live action filmmaking.
His role wasn't cameras or scripts - it was to create sounds like - leather gloves, rubber soles, compressed springs, cello bows, and hours spent over microphones trying to get a door creak or a cloak rustle to feel everyday.
For most of his career, Leo had worked on animated films, where every sound had to be built from scratch.
Hollywood live-action, on the other hand, rarely had jobs for him.