Problem Solving with Blankets
Well, it’s a new year, folks. Time to get back to work…
Which brings us to all the problem solving techniques required to bring a film to life.
Which then brings us to remember the blankets.
Those blankets gave us some great sound for our film, Liars and Lunatics. But before that could happen, we had to sit down to figure out how to make these blankets work.
We decided to use grommets—you know, those little metal eyelets. We scoured every shop we could think of. But apparently, grommets must have been going out of style that summer (either that or they were very popular).
We had someone go down to the fashion district in NYC, but unfortunately those grommets were too small our use.
Fortunately for us, we did find enough grommets. And actually cleared off some store shelves in the process.
But then came the labor-intensive work of attaching those grommets to the blankets. Mary, one of our production assistants, proved herself time and again to be the Amazing Grommet Girl. (Perhaps, one of these days she’ll have her own comic strip to follow the adventures of this superhero.)
Well, we were able to string the blankets together (using the new grommets, of course) and hang them as sound dampers on ceilings, on walls, wherever they’d be out of sight of the camera’s eye. Up and down, those blankets came.
And they sure worked. We have the sound to prove it!
{{ Photo :: The film crew attaches our “sound blankets” to the ceiling. }}
