Patrick Hogan wants audiences to hear what they can't see.The film director and sound professional is a 10-time Emmy-nominated supervising sound editor. Hogan has worked on over 100 television shows and movies, including Cobra Kai, Umbrella Academy, HBO's Six Feet Under, and Reservation Dogs. He's earned three Golden Reel Awards for his sound work.Now, with his latest horror short, Blindsided, Hogan is combining both halves of his career in a film designed specifically to showcase what sound can do when it becomes the main storytelling tool. We chatted with the filmmaker to learn from his approach.Hogan created Blindsided after a conversation with his wife and producer Anna Krista Johnson at a film festival. "I was at a film festival griping to my wife, who's also the producer, about the quality of the sound on some of the films there," Hogan said.He thought, instead of telling stories that interested him and then figuring out the technical execution, why not start with his greatest strength and build a story around it?The concept emerged quickly: a woman trapped in her apartment with a monster, but with one twist. She's blind. - YouTube youtu.be Horror with a Snorri Cam Hogan needed a way to keep the film visually engaging for sighted audiences while still putting them inside the protagonist's limited sensory experience.The solution came through a Snorri cam—a vest-mounted camera rig that keeps the lens focused on the actor's face while moving with them through space. It's a disorienting technique at first, creating an...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 30 October