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The Amazon Studios feature, Sound of Metal, <\/em>shot by Daniel Bouqu\u00ebt and directed by Darius Marder, takes a musical journey unlike any other.<\/span><\/p>\n

by Pauline Rogers \/ Framegrabs Courtesy of Amazon Studios<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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During a series of adrenaline-fueled one-night gigs,<\/strong> itinerant punk-metal drummer Ruben (Riz Ahmed) begins to experience intermittent hearing loss. When a specialist tells him his condition will rapidly worsen, he thinks his music career \u2013 and with it, his life \u2013 is over. His bandmates and girlfriend, Lou (Olivia Cooke), bring him to a secluded sober house for the deaf in hopes it will prevent a relapse into drug use and help him learn to cope with his impending disability. Although welcomed to the facility, Ruben still struggles between this new reality and his innate drive for music and fame.<\/p>\n

Writer\/Director Darius Marder got the idea for his feature debut when he was editing Metalheads<\/em>, a documentary by writer\/director Derek Cianfrance (ICG Magazine-Deep Dive-I Know This Much Is True<\/a>) that was ultimately scrapped. Marder, who was also co-writer with Cianfrance on the director\u2019s Sundance feature,\u00a0The Place Beyond the Pines<\/em>, says Metalheads<\/em>\u2019 non-fictional storyline, about a drummer who suffers sudden hearing loss, stayed with him; and over the ensuing decade, Marder built a team of musicians, actors, sound designers, and other artists to create the narrative feature Sound of Metal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Marder says he wanted to take his audience on a linear journey by shooting in chronological order, from Ruben\u2019s adrenaline-pumping performances and his despondence closeted in his Airstream trailer as he processes his loss of hearing, to a secluded community that helps him adapt and attempt to regain his former life, as well as to his ultimate recognition of where he fits in the world around him. Shooting on film was always a given, and working with Director of Photography Dani\u00ebl Bouquet (Golden Calf for Best Cinematography at the Netherlands Film Festival for Nothing Personal<\/em>), the pair opted for Techniscope 35-mm 2-perf stock.<\/p>\n

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Writer\/Director Marder got the idea for his feature debut while editing Metalheads<\/em>, a documentary by Derek Cianfrance about a drummer who suffers sudden hearing loss.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u201cWhen Darius and I had our first call, I expressed <\/strong>my desire to shoot on film,\u201d Bouquet recounts, \u201cand preferably in the fall or winter. I could imagine that the character of 35 millimeter, and the snow\u2019s acoustics, would suit the story well. Especially because of all the noise in their life, in the beginning, the silence would be important. Also, because we felt we would shoot a bit like a documentary,\u201d Bouquet adds, \u201cwith less light, a lot of space and freedom for performance, and the duration of the [film] magazines. It would give us the character we wanted and, with a limited amount of rolls, a lot of concentration and focus on the set. It\u2019s a very different approach from shooting digital.\u201d<\/p>\n

To achieve a similar look to The Place Beyond the Pines<\/em>, Marder and Bouquet chose the lightweight and compact Aaton Penelope cameras, which operate nearly silently with 2-perf, along with the Sigma Cine Prime lens series. The package would provide the camera team enough space in the Airstream\/Sound studio mole house that was so important in the film. \u201cWe locked into this one lens for the most part,\u201d Bouquet continues. \u201cThen, we shifted to another lens when it related to a specific sound perspective. I think we used maybe three or four in the [Sigma] series throughout the film. There\u2019s some handheld, but I\u2019m not a huge believer in Steadicam. I like the feeling of the weight of the camera.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bouquet says that when a specific emotional focus was needed, the camera would move physically closer, \u201cinstead of using a long lens,\u201d he explains. \u201cTo help with that,\u00a0 we went with a slightly longer focal length to reduce distortion in the close-ups.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When a specific emotional focus was required, the camera would move physically closer, \u201cinstead of using a long lens,\u201d says Director of Photography Dani\u00ebl Bouquet. \u201cAnd we went with a slightly longer focal length [on the Sigma Prime Series lenses] to reduce distortion in the close-ups.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Camera design started rather calmly, where everything<\/strong> was balanced \u2013 even in the middle of the chaotic music. When Ruben needs to move, the camera moved as well. \u201cI tried to follow his moods,\u201d Bouquet explains. \u201cWide would tell where we were, close would show what he was experiencing. Not so much in between.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried to avoid an additional \u2018effect layer\u2019 in addition to the sound effect that you sometimes experience in other films,” Bouquet adds. “We thought it would be too much information from both the sound and camera perspective. Taking away all the sound from a hearing audience is such a powerful tool. We decided to keep that moment for the end of the film because it\u2019s almost the climax after all the noise.\u201d<\/p>\n

The explosion of music and hard-core sounds in the opening concert sequence surrounds both the performers and the audience; the love for music, for sound, even for the cacophony of heavy metal is immediate. The concerts lure audiences in, uniting their journeys with Ruben\u2019s journey. Bouquet says they had one day to shoot both concert scenes, with both main actors performing the music.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were shooting their live performances on stage, and registered both the film and their music,\u201d he remembers. \u201cWe shot handheld with Riz behind the drums and with Olivia in front of the microphone, using a single camera and proximity to the performers. And like the concerts that they would have on this scale of performance, they arrived at the clubs with just instruments and some speakers\/amplifiers the afternoon before the show. No sound crew. Not too pretty and fairly dark overall.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bouquet had one day to shoot two concert scenes, with the two main actors performing the music.\u00a0\u201cWe shot handheld with Riz [Ahmed] behind the drums and with Olivia [Cooke] in front of the microphone,” he remembers, “using a single camera and proximity to the performers.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the story moves from Ruben\u2019s life on stage<\/strong> to being a nomadic musician, the home\/studio\/transportation Airstream creates another intimacy. Production Designer Jeremy Woodward re-designed the Airstream to be more camera-friendly. \u201cEven though the camera was everywhere and mostly handheld, it was extremely doable,\u201d Bouquet adds. \u201cThe heat was a challenge, especially on sunny days because, for sound, we preferred to keep the windows closed. Our U.S. gaffer, Michael Peterson, replaced the skylight\/portholes for bi-color LED light tiles, so we had some extra fill during the day and some Tungsten-balanced ambiance for the evenings.\u201d Since the film is shot chronologically, a story point is Ruben selling off his instruments, which allowed for more space inside the Airstream and a significant image of loss as it empties.<\/p>\n

One of Metal\u2019<\/em>s more poignant moments is when Ruben wanders into a classroom filled with deaf children. He takes them outside, where they start to communicate through percussion. \u201cRuben catches the attention of one kid, and a little lesson starts,\u201d Bouquet remembers. \u201cDuring research and prep, Darius discovered a lot of beautiful ways in which non-hearing people communicate. Like \u2018listening\u2019 to the vibration of the keys inside a piano by placing their hands on top of the wood. Someone told us that when they watch films, it\u2019s obvious they prefer action over dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bouquet says visually capturing dialogue in sign language is challenging, \u201cbecause you always need to see both hands, which makes close-ups nearly impossible. Not showing that is the same as turning off the volume in a conversation. A close-up could only show a facial expression or reaction to what someone was signing. Not much else.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bouqet notes that during prep “Darius discovered a lot of beautiful ways in which non-hearing people communicate. Like \u2018listening\u2019 to the vibration of the keys inside a piano by placing their hands on top of the wood.” Above, Rueben connects with children at a camp for the deaf.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The story\u2019s biggest visual transition is when Ruben<\/strong> travels to Europe \u2013 from Boston \u2013 to reconnect with Lou. \u201cWe found a beautiful house in Antwerp for Lou\u2019s father\u2019s residence,\u201d Bouquet explains. \u201cIt was built so the horse-carriages dropping off the owners or guests could enter from the front and continue to the back, under the house.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to shoot day for evening, so we scheduled the garden scene at the end of the day, and used a bedroom on the first floor on the shadow side of the house \u2013 a late sunny introduction with her father and a cooler dimmer interior towards the evening and early morning. The bedroom on the first floor was on the street side without much space, so our European gaffer, Janneke Hogenboom, placed two large LED softboxes on lifts to come in high through the windows of Lou\u2019s bedroom. In the garden, she organized \u2018drop-downs\u2019 with 2.5K\u2019s from the balcony to create thin sunlight, allowing me to look into the garden behind Mathieu Amalric\u2019s character.\u201d<\/p>\n

The final scene in Sound of Metal<\/em> brings everything back to the beginning \u2013 but in a different way. It plays out on the streets outside Lou\u2019s family home. Ruben is lost, realizes Lou is out of his life, but not sure where he is going with his own. \u201cIt comes from the \u2018sound portraits,\u201d Bouquet recalls. Ruben observes what is around him. He sees and listens to children playing, people talking, street noises. But it begins to irritate him. \u201cThe sound of the cochlear implants he\u2019s received is unbearable,\u201d Bouquet adds. \u201cWe saved the real silence for the moment he takes them off. I had a discussion with Darius because I wanted him just to sit and listen before taking them off, but we felt it was important that we make the connection between what he hears and sees.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For a key scene inn Lou’s father house (shot in Belgium), European gaffer Janneke Hogenboom organized \u2018drop-downs\u2019 with 2.5K\u2019s from the balcony to create thin sunlight. Bouquet explains that, “this let me look into the garden behind Mathieu Amalric\u2019s character.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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One of the most unique creative relationships <\/strong>on\u00a0Sound of Metal <\/em>was between Marder, Bouquet, and Sound Designer\/Editor Nicholas Becker, whose concepts influenced every step of the project. Marder had contacted Becker a year before production began, and they talked about how sound would impact the script, the costumes, the images, and even postproduction. Bouquet joined the two men in Paris to discuss the different approaches and find common ground. \u201cThis kind of exchange between the DP and the sound designer is very rare,\u201d Becker states. \u201cThe only other time, for me, was with Darius Khondji [ASC], when I was doing a project on the artist Philippe Parreno.\u201d<\/p>\n

Becker, who says the interaction of image and sound has always fascinated him, notes that Sound of Metal <\/em>truly showed how much sound can influence image-making. \u201cIt can give the illusion of changing the perception of the image through the sounds we choose and use,\u201d he shares. \u201cSound can define a strategy that will influence the viewer\u2019s gaze. To help or disrupt the perception of light, movement, time, and the journey of the gaze.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor this film,\u201d he continues, \u201ctwo important things were drawn together: the first is obviously how to create frames from a subjective perspective on Ruben, the main character who is losing his hearing. Dani\u00ebl\u2019s work with Riz accomplished this. The second is more about editing scenes where we change the auditory perspective. It had to be clear but not too repetitive. Dani\u00ebl offered us a lot of possibilities. We spent a lot of time with Mikkel, the picture editor, to find the right balance between classical and subjective shots so that it was not too mechanical, too tiring.\u201d<\/p>\n

Becker says that once a vocabulary was set up, combining sound and subjective images could make digressions that produce variations so as not to exhaust the viewer. \u201cFor example, it can be the image or the sound that goes into the subjective mode, but the viewer always identifies the change of perspective, and his brain does the work,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

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Sound Designer\/Editor Nicholas Becker says his close collaboration with Bouquet was rare in his filmmaking experience. \u201cSound can define a strategy that will influence the viewer\u2019s gaze…and\u00a0Dani\u00ebl offered us a lot of possibilities for\u00a0editing scenes where we change the auditory perspective.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The designer\u2019s ability to work with both director and<\/strong> cinematographer to fully integrate the sound into the story showed immediately. \u201cWe rehearsed the music for the concerts for months,\u201d Becker explains. \u201cWe wanted to give everything a documentary feeling, where the audience realizes our sound and images were natural, not dubbed. That set the tone for a sound plan that held throughout the picture.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the most interesting sound integrations is a simple scene outside the isolated recovery center where Ruben interacts with a young boy, who is playing at the top of the slide. Ruben sits at the bottom of the slide, silent, thinking he\u2019s alone when he begins to feel vibrations. He looks up, and there is the child, making his kind of music.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe scene makes people understand that even if we become deaf, we can continue to perceive a certain low aerial vibration, and even much more as soon as we are in contact with vibrating objects,\u201d Becker offers. \u201cThe brain can reconstitute the sensation of a sound from these vibrations perceived by the skin or the bone cavities. The scene is quite poetic and draws the audience into the reality of a life without sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

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One example of sound\/image integration is when Ruben, sitting alone, in silence, at the bottom of a playground slide, feels vibrations of a child at the top making music. \u201cThe scene makes people understand that even if we become deaf, we can continue to perceive a certain low aerial vibration,” Becker explains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Becker says his influence in the final sequence<\/strong> in Antwerp was calculated. \u201cDarius wanted the silence to be different than in traditional cinema, where silence is never nothing,\u201d he recalls. \u201cHe wanted emptiness. Usually, when there is \u2018silence,\u2019 people find themselves in their living room hearing the sound of the air conditioner, the noise of the neighbors, or the woman who eats her sweets, and we start listening. But what do we hear from the screen? The silence that Ruben has come to accept as the next part of his life.\u201d<\/p>\n

To accomplish this, Becker used multidirectional microphones that created a hyper-real quality as well as condenser mics. He put mics underwater and on Ahmed\u2019s skull, even capturing the sound of his eyelids closing.<\/p>\n

The partnership between story, image capture, and sound fulfilled Marder\u2019s goal to show \u201cthat deafness is not silence,\u201d the director concludes. \u201cIt\u2019s a different way of experiencing sound and vibration. The audience often hears what Ruben hears \u2013 or doesn\u2019t hear. We constantly played with the dichotomy of omniscient sound and perspective sound. Sound design and story working hand-in-hand forced the audience to experience more than just the sound of silence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bert Hamelinck of Caviar Group, one of the producers of Sound of Metal<\/em>, sums up the feeling behind the indie project. \u201cIt is something unique,\u201d Hamelinck notes. \u201cWhen the main character loses his hearing, he is forced to go on a roller-coaster journey in search of his true self. The overall emotional arc is recognizable, but trying to make the film work for hearing and non-hearing audiences equally was a difficult task. Sound is essential in most films. But here, the lack of hearing, combined with the main character\u2019s other issues, allowed us to experience something quite tangible in the viewing experience, not just emotionally but physically. Although the story of a deaf drummer is a powerful hook, the film goes much deeper to examine who we are as human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Producer Bert Hamelinck says that while the overall emotional arc of Sound of Metal\u00a0<\/em>is recognizable, trying to make the film work for hearing and non-hearing audiences equally was a difficult task. “Sound is essential in most films,” Hamelinck describes. “But here, the lack of hearing allowed us to experience something quite tangible in the viewing experience.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Local 600 Camera Team – Sound of Metal (<\/i>Boston, MA)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Director of Photography: Dani\u00ebl Bouquet<\/p>\n

1st Assistants Camera: Richard Crumrine, Doug Durant<\/p>\n

2nd Assistant Camera: Matthew Hedges<\/p>\n

Loader: Joshua Weilbrenner<\/p>\n

Unit Still Photographer: Robert Clark<\/p>\n

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