Sound design and score · 2024 · Zoom H6
Richter
Richter is a short film about an earthquake. I created its sound design and score without commercial sound libraries, using my own recordings and synthesizers before mixing everything around the dialogue.
REAPER · field recording · synthesis
Final film
A heavy earthquake with clear dialogue
Synthesizers provide the deep rumble. Stretched door creaks, pallet impacts and concrete scrapes make the earthquake feel physical instead of sounding like one continuous low note.
The first mix hid parts of the speech. I reduced the rumble in the same frequency range as the voices and lowered it whenever the actors spoke, keeping the earthquake heavy without losing their lines.