A delightful piece of sound sculpting subtlety for this important awareness film for Malaria.

David was green-screen giving a speech, knowing that the backdrop was going to be a vast assembly hall in the year 2050, which then morphed back to the present day.

Having done some research on voice aging, I asked David if he could record several takes of the script where he stooped and shallowed his breathing (slightly, we didn’t want to get into law suits ;-) ) and also attempt to add a little rasp, as if his voicebox had had 70-odd years of use. The takes that came back from the shoot were amazingly good (well done David - great acting!) and I further aged the tone by adding wobble, breath and distortion artefacts. If you listen carefully to his voice after the transition, you’ll hear that it’s cleaner and younger-sounding than in the first 30 seconds of the film.

Interesting behind the scenes film HERE

CLIENT : Malaria No More UK

PRODUCER : Naomi

PRODUCTION COMPANY : RSA Films, Amsterdam

DIRECTOR : John Filipe

PRODUCER : Pavel Ananich, Ross Plummer

CREATIVE DIRECTOR : John Filipe

VFX and ONLINE : Digital Domain, 3.0

SOUND DESIGN and MIX : Alex Nicholls-Lee