Sound Design and Pickup Filming for the Matrix Resurrections Reel for Studio C

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Sound design, pickup filming, and edit for Studio C, who were contracted by Warner Brothers to produce all of the on-set UI for Matrix Resurrections.

Filming used my Panasonic S1H and an anamorphic lens setup using Carl Zeiss Makro Prime, and a Schneider 2X anamorphic lens in a Rapido Anamorphic case. I shot raw UI footage on CRT screens to drop into the edit and showcase the UI design.

Almost no UI sound design was present in the film, so I created this from scratch.

I added plenty of other sounds I felt should have been in the film anyway, from the fire alarm and sprinkler water in the office scene, to the creaking ancient cities in the “real world”. I tend to pick a “style” for each piece, so this was led by bit-crushing and time-stretching, making a large pool of real-world retro-tech sounds like faxes, modems and so on and digitally mangling them to create new diegetic audio.

It was made across about 5 days and used about 160 tracks. I stripped out the 5.1 stems, slicing and remixing those, and cut together multiple different parts of the OST in order to create a narrative movement for the reel. Other work included the edit itself and some filming of UI on one of my CRT monitors using my anamorphic lens setup.