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How ‘Zone of Interest’ Achieved Its Chilling Sound
Oscar-nominated sound designer Johnnie Burn on the chilling sound design of A24's "The Zone of Interest"
When filmmaker Jonathan Glazer sent sound designer Johnnie Burn the script for his Holocaust drama “ The Zone of Interest ” a year before production even began, Glazer laid down clear guidelines for the role sound was going to play: He did not want to share images that audiences knew and he wasn’t going to show the familiar, devastating scenes of the Polish concentration camp. The Oscar-nominated film centers around Commandant Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) and his wife Hedwig (Sandra Huller) who live a dream life with their children in a seemingly-perfect home — except that the house and garden border a concentration camp. “It was incredibly effective for months during the picture edit, but a year into post, we thought, ‘What if it was constant?’” And so, it stretched out to become an endless sound heard in the background.
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