{"id":5980,"date":"2017-12-23T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/?p=5980"},"modified":"2017-12-23T08:06:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T07:06:59","slug":"oscar-nominated-editor-saar-klein-on-building-suspense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/2017\/12\/23\/oscar-nominated-editor-saar-klein-on-building-suspense\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar-nominated Editor Saar Klein on building suspense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saar Klein (SK):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In film, silence is as important as sound. The lack of sound is a powerful tool to dramatize, highlight and often to immerse the viewer into the eyes of a character to experience the world as they do. In my opinion, there\u2019s an overuse of sound in recent Hollywood films. Both music and effects are pushed, creating audio fatigue for the viewer. For very practical purposes it is important to remove and simplify sound, so when you need to use it and you want it to \u201cpop\u201d you have the room to do so. To badly paraphrase Spinal Tap: your amp doesn\u2019t need to be at 11. With After the Fall I tried to push these ideas to the next level. The intent was to place the viewer into the environment of the characters in order to create immersion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s totally worth reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/archives\/moviemaking\/screenwriting\/suspense-with-a-camera-jeffrey-michael-bays-excerpt\/\">the whole article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saar Klein (SK): In film, silence is as important as sound. The lack of sound is a powerful tool to dramatize, highlight and often to immerse the viewer into the eyes of a character to experience the world as they do. In my opinion, there\u2019s an overuse of sound in recent Hollywood films. Both music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[106,48],"class_list":["post-5980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestream","tag-film","tag-filmmaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5981,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980\/revisions\/5981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}