Geektown Radio 140: 'Baby Driver' Sound Designer Julian Slater, UK TV News & UK TV Air Dates!
2017-12-19
We return for the final show of 2017 before we head off for Christmas, but we have an episode stuffed like a turkey, full of tv news, air date info, and an exclusive interview with Julian Slater, the incredible sound designer behind Edgar Wright's brilliant 'Baby Driver'.
Julian is a man of many titles - re-recording mixer, sound designer, supervising sound editor… basically, everything, other than the composed music in a film, is Julian’s responsibility. The British born, now LA-based, “sound guy” has worked on some brilliant projects over his career, from films such as ‘Shaun of the Dead’, ‘In Bruges’, ‘Hot Fuzz’, ‘The Danish Girl’, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, and ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’, to tv shows like ‘Life on Mars’, ‘Ashes To Ashes’ and ‘Hotel Babylon’.
All that experience came in handy when his long-time collaborator, Edgar Wright, presented him with the movie ‘Baby Driver’ - a film about a young getaway driver, who gets involved in a heist that goes wrong. The unique part of the movie is contained in its use of sound. The lead character suffers from tinnitus, so listens to music to drown it out. This leads them to the idea of syncing a large portion of the sounds you hear in the film to the music. The phenomenally complex task of how to make that work fell to Julian, who had to figure out a way of making all the everyday sounds from the film sync up with the movie's extensive soundtrack.
Julian's latest upcoming film is ‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’, so we also discuss what it's like creating the terrifying roars of oversized stampeding animals!
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