The sound team behind The Continental revealed the secrets behind bringing the John Wick spinoff to life.
The sound team behind theJohn Wickspin-offThe Continentalshared its secrets behind bringing thePeacockshow to life.
Keanu ReevesJohn Wickfranchisehas long been a beloved blockbuster action series on the big screen.
However, up until now, Wicks unique world and bone-breaking fights never expanded past the films.
But withThe Continental, thats all set to change.
The Seven Secrets from Behind The Continental
1.)
These sequences can be intense and have many different facets to worry about.
How do they juggle it all?
I mean, we’re talking frames at a time.
And then, in the next couple of frames, we want to hear this moment.
And, also keep in mind that the big action is going to be dominant at any given point.
So, you know, what mixing is, is like a selective focus in a sense.
The sound mix is equivalent to the lens finder for a DP.
Where we can decide to focus on, you know, something really small, or something really big.
We can zoom out and zoom in.
It never would have happened without that kind of forethought.
There’s no music in there, there’s very little dialogue, it’s all sound effects.
And I don’t think one fader was moved inside that section.
It’s that precise."
2.)
And that’s an Albert quote.
So, this show is full-ass.
So, the important thing is to build those peaks and valleys to keep it sonically interesting.
Gibelon added thatif youre just throwing sounds at the wall, it makes it muddy.
You have to be very mindful.
You have to be even more mindful the busier it gets.
What am I using?
Is what I’m using telling the story?
They weren’t higher pitched, or they didn’t have whines to them.
Were OSHA beeps, you know, around in the 70s?
Let’s check that we didn’t don’t have OSHA beeps there.
So there were all these little things that we discussed when it came to that kind of stuff.
And, as it relates to my part of it, it’s music-driven.
And they’re all periods specific–until they’re not.
There are a couple of places where we cheat.
Re-Creating the Soundscapes for Exterior Locations
Many of the exterior locations ofThe Continentalare recreated on soundstages.
So, how exactly did Gibelon and Barnett go about recreating those soundscapes?
And it’s always active.
There’s always something going on.
So it was very fun to put that all together and give a shot to piece it in.
There’s a lot.
Sometimes, it’s organized chaos that you’re trying to create."
Luke is the sound supervisor, right?
You’ve got to find the quiet spots… it’s all about contrast.
So, yes, we have it super busy.
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So we call it like negative sound spaces, just to something I would say.
5.)
How Much Sound Is Recreated vs. Theres also plenty of audio captured while filming that never makes it into the final mix.
That means captured on the day of shooting.
[Ray McKinnons Jenkins] had an intelligibility problem…
He had to be replaced, mostly because of intelligibility.
And it’s additional storytelling things.
That alone was quite a bit of work.
6.)
Maybe we’ll make the room even sound like it’s breathing.
That the action sounds the same because ‘John Wick’ has its own sounding action.
It’s different than a ‘Star Wars’ action.
It’s different from ‘Bourne Identity’ action or superhero action.
It’s got its own sound that we’ve crafted over the course of the films.
Obviously, this is a period piece, and it’s a prequel.
So it happens, what 25 years previous to [the first] ‘John Wick’.
Those really do carry forward.
7.)
So, it gave them the appearance of not even being out of breath as they fought.
It was a very cool effect.
You know, that kind of thing.
So, that made them creepier still.
The Continentalis now streaming on Peacock.
