Producing the soundtrack for BnC has probably been the biggest undertaking I’ve done musically. Ideas had been sketched out before filming based on temp-track ideas that ranged from the Utopia and Punch Drunk Love soundtracks to Aphex Twin’s Penty Harmonium.
By the time the first edit came through I thought I had it all in the bag for the 11 cues. A month later the BnC album on my iTunes has 113 tracks/edits. There were a lot of other Logic Projects that didn’t make it that far. On the bonus the tracks surplus to requirements will definitely be used for other projects.
Post production was handled at Technicolor London. The suite was incredible. Definitely a Ferris Bueller settling his eyes on a Ferrari 250GT moment. Awesome to see the film digitally projected onto an 18 foot (guess) screen and to see a pro colorist, Alex Gascoigne, at work.
The image from the Alexa Mini and Kowa lenses looked stunning. Another jaw dropping moment was to see the Phantom 3 Pro footage. It hadn’t let us down. The Phantom footage was 4k – 3840 x 2160, 24p, log color/ProlostFlat settings, using PolarPro ND’s to keep the shutter speed under control. It was almost too good. Alex added a subtle vignette and blur to ‘roughen’ the image up a touch. The Phantom’s codec was also robust enough to survive the grade and match the Alexa.
LEROY ILLANOIS 