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As we looked at the silent footage, we quickly realized our job was to animate what we were seeing with sound — to truly bring life to the picture. We needed to thread the needle of reality, as the film presents a variety of surreal sequences, playing off a raw New York City soundscape.

We created a character out of Doug’s bed through sound — as it plays a larger part in this piece than one may think. We dug in to foley and were thourough in our approach to hit every detail of motion we see on screen. As the color and visuals are very descriptive in their own way, we knew the relationship sound had to a visual shift in atmosphere was vital. Thus, our design changed depending on the type of day our main character was having. The sheets on his bed sounded different, we rolled of brightness of certain soundscape characteristics, even the tone of people around our main character were altered. Our sound and music supports story, and we're proud to never have lost sight of that during this project.

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CAST

Doug: Tomas Delgado
The Barista: Samantha Glovin
The Big Boss: Mike Roche
Waitress: Linda Elizabeth
Newspaper Guy: Giovanni Colantonio
Huge Client: Don Downie
Less Interesting Barista: Mike McCabe
Mattress Guys: Jacob Cohen & Sylvan Carlson-Goodman


CREW - PRODUCTION

Directed and Produced: Nathan Breton Written By: Joseph Killeen
Cinematography: Andi Obarski
Production Coordination: Samantha Glovin
Gaffer: Henry Gretzinger
First AC: Morgan Smith

CREW - POST PRODUCTION

Video Editing: Nathan Breton & Joseph Killeen
Sound Post Production: Waterline
Original Music: Nathan Breton and Eric Brown