The Sound of the Perfect House...

Ran into a snag in our shooting plans today: the perfect house is not so perfect anymore. The I80 (commonly called the 215 by those who live in Salt Lake) resides just behind the perfect house....


AHHHHHHH! This is why I encourage productions to take their sound mixer or sound supervisor to the locations they scout! They can often hear problems with locations that others are not even considering. It would be the equivalent of not bringing your DP to the locations until the shoot day. Not a good idea.


Anyway, Stephen and Jason found this perfect house after already being prepared to shoot at another house where we took our press photos. They sent Jorge and I a photo of this new house and we instantly fell in love. It has blue wood siding and the prefect white trim. The door is framed by two symmetrical bay windows... it is what we all had in mind when first reading the original script.


Two options arise out of this problem. 


1. Take wild tracks of dialog outside our other location as we are not shooting the interiors at the same house.  This works in our favor since Satan will not be recorded on location, Stephanie has no lines and Jason has only four lines.  The only concern is dialog on CU shots will not be in complete sync and may require mad dialog editing skills.  Perhaps the edit can help us use the wild tracks.


2. Soundsoap the freeway out of the ambiance.  Although this may be an option and typically I like Bias's Soundsoap, I have little faith in the algorithms taking out the I80 without affecting dialog.


We will probably try both and see which one supports the story best.  After all, a pilot is more about telling a good story than the technical details. 


Here is a sample of the busy freeway behind our previously perfect location:
Perfect House AMB  by  m5coff


What do you think?