[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”1770″ img_size=”902×531″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Even with advances in digital sound work, apparently not all audio special effects are done in post-production. If you have heard the echoing double-voice of half-man, half-alien symbiote Venom in the new Venom trailer, Eddie Brock actor Tom Hardy explained how it was accomplished and shared it with Entertainment Weekly. According to Hardy, it was achieved “all at the same time” during actual filming.
“Actually, the sound boys, [Patrick Anderson on sound playback and production sound mixer Michael B. Koff], they worked relentlessly to trigger [it] — I’d have to lay down the vocal for Venom in the morning and then play Eddie opposite in my earpiece, and whoever was working in the scene with me, had to hear Venom at the same time but then ignore that they’d heard Venom,”
“And whenever I gave my cue line as Eddie Brock — this might not make any sense to anybody who’s not really techie and geeky about things like this like me — but Patrick would be under the stage queuing Venom accurately so I could cut across him and talk and argue with myself, and stuff like that. It’s a bit techie, it was fun. It was really, really good fun, and the sound boys, actually, to be fair, probably really play Venom. It’s my voice [laughs], but they play Venom.”
Hardy has done this before when he played both roles as identical twin brothers Reggie and Ron Kray in 2015 gangster drama Legend. For that movie, he would act opposite himself through the use of vocal recordings and a double, making for a not-as-complicated-as-it-sounds “Tetris puzzle.”
As far as Venom is concerned: “It looks weird from the outside if you don’t hear what I’m hearing. It just looks like a man talking to himself, which is partly Eddie Brock’s problem, really, for a lot of the transference of the symbiote into him,”
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Venom, starring Tom Hardy, Riz Ahmed, Jenny Slate, and Michelle Williams and opens October 5.
Source: Entertainment Weekly (via ComicBook)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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