Most recently, Audionamix’s team of audio engineers were called upon to use ADX proprietary Stem Creation technology to provide legendary composer Hans Zimmer, artistic liberty while creating the soundscape for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Last year, Audionamix provided a similar service for Hans Zimmer in the box-office hit Inception. Our challenge from Mr. Zimmer in this feature film was to provide his production team the ability to re-position and manipulate not just one, but three operatic voices of an original stereo composite mix. This would enable the audio mixer to match the production perspective of the actors on screen. We also needed to provide enough separation of the voices to allow the audio mixer control of the volume of the individual voices within the fixed mix so that after the original recording was augmented, its voices could be raised or lowered in specific areas, thus allowing Mr. Zimmer to fully realize his creative vision during the Don Giovanni opera scene.
Audionamix prides itself on working closely with our clients’ production team in order to reach their individual creative objectives, and this film was no exception. Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows premiered on December 16th and is currently in theaters across the country.