| | | A spoon hypnotically circling a saucer. A snap(shot) back to reality. The lonely, atmospheric, crushing silence of the sunken place.If you're hearing those sounds in your head, that's for good rea | | If you have trouble reading this email, go to the online version |  | |  | | | | | |  | | | | August 24, 2018 | | The Man Behind the Soundscapes of Get Out and Atlanta
Emmy-Nominated Sound Editor Trevor Gates on Silence in "Teddy Perkins" and Creating the Sunken Place | |  | | | | | | | A spoon hypnotically circling a saucer. A snap(shot) back to reality. The atmospheric, crushing silence of the sunken place.
If you're hearing those sounds in your head, that's for good reason: the aural motifs in Jordan Peele's instantly iconic horror movie, Get Out, seem, upon retrospect, manufactured with posterity in mind.
In large part responsible for such indelible moments is the film's sound editor, Trevor Gates—who just so happened to design the sound for another work of horror taking place in a country estate starring Lakeith Stanfield: "Teddy Perkins," the strangest, most ambitious episode on an already strange, highly ambitious season of Atlanta.
During the episode, directed by Hiro Murai, Darius (Stanfield) goes to the gothic mansion of Teddy Perkins (creator/star Donald Glover, in whiteface) to pick up a used piano. With his high-pitched voice, old-school smoking jacket and stilted mannerisms, Perkins is evasive, haunted and clearly hiding something—quite literally, his musically gifted and ailing brother, Benny, as well as their troubled childhood, reminiscent of the relationship between Joe and Michael Jackson. The episode climaxes in a crash of fraternal violence, resounding with powerful suddenness in the eerie quietude of the hollow house.
"Teddy Perkins" received several well-deserved Emmy nominations, for directing, single-camera picture editing, production design, cinematography and sound editing. So ahead of the Emmy Awards next month, we caught up with Gates to talk about working on Atlanta, how he created the fragile stillness in "Teddy Perkins," the sunken place and the scariest scene he's seen this year.
| | | | | | | | | | | |
No comments:
Post a Comment