10. Post Production Sound

Aug 20th, 2021. Cold Start production blog post written by Richard Townsley

Welcome back to COLD START: The Road to Production. Video editing for Cold Start has been completed. I am extremely happy with the outcome of it, I look forward to releasing it. Next up is sound editing and color correction. I am currently working on recording foley, working on sound design, and experimenting with the best way to approach the sound for the racing scenes. The production audio dialogue was recorded by an experienced boom operator, so we don't need to do any automated dialogue replacement (ADR) in which the actor is brought into a sound booth to rerecord lines. Cold Start has over 100 tracks of audio with over 5,000 clips layered together to create a rich, yet natural, soundscape.

I have teamed up with an Emmy-winning, 30-year running, local post-sound studio in Burbank, California. This studio will go through the sound files I made and master them in Dolby Atmos 7.1.2. This means that not only will you have sound coming from speakers in front of you, but also on either side, behind, and above. Dolby Atmos is, without a doubt, the current top-of-the-line cinema sound experience. Atmos adds overhead speakers that create a truly immersive surround sound and, utilizing improved high-end calibration software: listening to Cold Start in a theater during a festival premiere, will provide sound that is deeper and more precise creating the illusion that you are truly in the driver’s seat of the race car. Creating a proper Dolby Atmos mix requires time, patience, and skill. Even at home, without any of the additional speakers, the quality of the sound being produced will be greater than anything available for streaming on Netflix, Hulu, or Prime Video.