once we received picture lock we were able to make a list of everything we needed to finish the sound for this film, we listed all of the foley that we could see, as well as constructing an order in which we could record it. we also discussed the opportunities for music and atmos too.
At first it seemed like there wasn’t a lot to record in terms of foley, as a lot of the scene is filmed with the actors either walking or sitting with not much interaction with anything that would make noise, but we quickly noticed how empty the soundtrack was without the smaller noises such as glasses being placed on tables, bags being scraped along people’s bodies and other little sounds that people normally wouldn’t give a second thought to.
While listening back to the atmos tracks that we recorded we also discovered that the recordings were all very bland and that the pre-amps on the zooms made more noise than the rooms themselves so we knew that we would have to construct our own atmospheric tracks too.