Prime Focus Sound Designer and Mixer Phitz Hearne, who recently won an Emmy for his work on Nutopia's 'America The Story of Us,' ensured the aural landscape matched the visual presentation. "The client really wanted to maintain the gritty realism of the archive footage," said Phitz. "We wanted to increase the impact of the sound whilst keeping its realism, so we made sure it stayed within the 'recorded on a camcorder' feel. It needed to feel as though it was amateur, but it also needed to have a broadcast production value to it."
"A lot of the archive footage audio needed to be rebuilt," added Phitz, "so we found slightly more realistic sounding clips - bangs, explosions, girder creaks - and built the atmosphere that the badly recorded camcorder sound could lie on. We tried to be very sympathetic to the historical situation - it’s not even been 10 years and there are people for whom it is as fresh in their mind today as it was when it happened."
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