What are some of the main challenges in doing sound design, especially on time or budget constraint?
Sonnenschein: The challenges are that you have to give priority to dialogue to make sure that it is really “king” and really heard clearly in the soundtrack. If you don’t get that right, it doesn’t matter how creative you are, especially if you are missing important information or emotion in the characters voices. Sometimes that isn’t done very well in production and you have to really work at it in post-production, and that may include trying to get the actors back into the studio for ADR or looping. It’s not always that easy to synchronize with the original recording or to get the emotional level perhaps as it was originally…. The second challenge is really being able to create the authenticity or the realism of the scene or the environment. You might not necessarily use the exact sound that you would imagine that you should.
