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‘A Complete Unknown’ Sound Team and Editors Break Down Recreating Bob Dylan’s Iconic 1965 Newport Folk Fest Performance
“We wanted each one of the those songs to build" during the Newport 65 Folk Festival scene.
Production designer François Audouy and his team created the venue on location in New Jersey, where cinematographer Phedon Papamichael lensed the scene with multiple cameras. Buckland explains that this meant they had to service “side-stage dramas,” while also “maintaining that Bob is still a presence and still continuing to play within the chaos and the mayhem that he’s basically creating. “That really lent into crazy delays in the PA at that point, and defocusing Timmy and trying to go with the anger that was going on in front of us from the venue, from the soundboard perspective, and then cutting back into the stage and drying everything up and making it very immediate.
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