The Damion is in the details?

The movie is getting better every day.  

We’re now in the final stages of completing Peace & Riot.  I recently went work at the home/studio of our sound mixer Michael Kelly .  It was at this time that I could see some of the original score composed by Jonathan Price, mixed into the movie.   One of the jobs as the sound mixer is to lay all the music into the movie and adjusts the levels of the dialog.  

Flashback to New York City – October 2008.  I am in the Metropolitan Museum.  I’ve never considered myself an “art” guy but knew that on my first visit to the Big Apple, I needed to check out the museums. After a few hours of looking at paintings, some of them a thousand years old, I took out my cell phone and typed myself a note. 

 “Attention to detail can make good art great.”   A painting of a city by the sea from the 1600s, probably measuring six feet across stuck out to me.  The people in the background, they all had personalities:   one girl getting her haircut, a boy was swatting a fly away from his face, a fisherman checking his line.  Keep in mind these figures were no more than an inch in size on a painting that was twenty-four square feet.  With the choice of color and composition, the painting was beautiful, but was the fine detail that stood out to me.  

While watching the most recent cut of the movie, there is a scene in which Ben Savage talks to Anna Pheil – while she is holding a guitar.  I’d seen the scene a dozen times and it’s a good scene that moves the story forward.  However, this time I watched it Michael Kelly had mixed in some guitar sounds that Jonathan Price had recorded.  Now, I never asked Jonathan to do this for this particular scene as there were other scenes that we needed to brush up the guitar work.  So when Anna’s changes her grasp on the next of the guitar and I suddenly hear an almost silent hum/ buzz.  I am totally taken off guard.  

   

It’s the fine details like this that are making the movie that much better.