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‘Étoile’ Post-Production Team Talks Editing Across Borders And Languages
Cutting together a ballet series shot across two countries, in multiple languages, with a cast in the dozens, Étoile was never going to be easy.
For editor Zana Bochar, as well as her father, supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer Ron Bochar — both of whom worked on the creators’ previous series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — the challenge began with scope: “It’s one thing to have a show shot in Paris, as well as in New York, with very different recording techniques in both places,” says Ron, in conversation with Zana and dialogue editor Sara Stern at the Deadline Studio at Prime Experience. Moreover, she’d have to find a way to balance the extremely quick pace of dialogue marking a trademark of the show’s creators, while leaving enough room in the edit for the French to be subtitled and understood. For Stern, the big challenge of the job was preserving voices while managing the noise coming with everything from the ballet studio to city streets.
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