Supervising Sound Editors and Re-recording Mixers Christopher Scarabosio & Wayne Lemmer talk to us about their work on The French Dispatch. They tell us about what is it like working with director Wes Anderson, mixing at Abby Road Studios for the first time, and how they go about building/mixing an amazing sounding montage sequence.
Links:
Christopher Scarabosio On IMDB
Wayne Lemmer on IMDB
The Following is a lightly edited and repaired, A.I. generated transcript of Tonebenders episode 178 – The French Dispatch with Wayne Lemmer & Chris Scarabosio. Please excuse any typos or translation mistakes made by the algorithm .
Tim Muirhead – Tonebenders Host
Wayne Lemmer – Supervising Sound Editor & Re-Recordig Mixer on The French Dispatch
Chris Scarabosio – Supervising Sound Editor & Re-Recordig Mixer on The French Dispatch
Bob Hein – Supervising Sound Editor on The Royal Tenenbaums (clip from previous Tonebenders episode)
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Narrator 0:16
You’re listening to Tonebenders, the sound designer’s podcast. Let’s do this
Timothy Muirhead 0:29
Hello and welcome to Tonebenders. My name is Timothy Muirhead and I will be your host for today. In 1998, I went to film school in Toronto and part of the program was the expectation that all the students go to as many films as possible, during the Toronto International Film Festival. That year I saw 35 films in just 10 days. I saw films from Hungary, Iceland, Russia, Iran. I also saw documentaries that were inspiring and ones that were predicting impending dooms days. But my favorite film I saw that year was the premiere of Wes Anderson’s Rushmore. It was amazing. In fact, it’s still one of my favorite films to this day. Wes Anderson has released many movies in the decade since and I’ve enjoyed them all. I’m a sucker for his films. One of the things that gets me every time is his use of sound in the films. And today I’m lucky enough to talk to the Supervising Sound Editors and Re-recording mixers of many of his recent films, including his latest The French Dispatch. Wayne Lemmer is joining us today. His past non Wes Anderson movies include Deadpool, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Logan and Hidden Figures. Welcome to the show. Wayne, am I correct that this is your third Wes Anderson film that you’ve worked on?
Wayne Lemmer 1:35
Yes, that’s the third one for sure. Yeah.
Timothy Muirhead 1:37
And what were those three the French dispatch,
Wayne Lemmer 1:39
Grand Budapest Hotel and Isle Of Dogs.
Timothy Muirhead 1:42
Excellent. Those are all awesome movies. Also joining us is Chris Scarabosio, listeners will know his work on a bunch of the recent Star Wars films, including Rogue One, which is a favorite of mine, as well of lots of animated films, including Pixar’s latest – Luca, The Croods and Minions. He also works on the exact other end of the genre spectrum having worked on Phantom Thread and Marriage Story. Chris, you seem to bounce around between re-recording mixer, sound designer and supervising…. sometimes all three, do you prefer mixing something that you’ve been cutting or something that comes to you is more of a clean slate?
Chris Scarabosio 2:12
I prefer mixing something that I’ve been working on, I mean, you know, over the years, one of the things, like early on when you’re doing your sound design, you have a very specific idea of it and then yeah, you kind of hand it over to the mixer and they start tearing it apart. And it soon turns into something that you didn’t want it to sound like. So I just decided that probably the best way for me to get my ideas across, would be to just mix it myself.
Timothy Muirhead 2:40
And Wayne, how do you feel about that? I noticed on your IMDB list, you have both credits as well..
Wayne Lemmer 2:44
I’d prefer to, kind of, see the vision all the way through.
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