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M OT I O N P I CTU R E S O U N D E D I TO R S I 45 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing Non-Theatrical Under 35:00 SERVANT: "2:00" Apple+ Supervising Sound Editor: SEAN GARNHART Sound E• ects Editor: MARK FILIP Dialogue Editor: MICHAEL FEUSER Music Editor: LESLEY LANGS Foley Editors: JULIEN PIRRIE GARETH RHYS JONES What was the biggest challenge you and your team faced? SEAN GARNHART, SUPERVISING SOUND EDITOR: M. Night Shyamalan is very appreciative but extremely demanding. He expects feature-quality work every week on each episode. Details are a huge part of this show. As we know, details take time to create and execute. Delivering those details each and every episode requires a tremendous commitment and work ethic from everyone involved and I'm very grateful for my team!! Why are the MPSE Awards important to you? SEAN: I love that the Golden Reel Award is an honor given by my peers. It's not necessarily a popularity contest. I love that fellow sound editors can hear the details we put into this show. Was there anything specifi c within the story that infl uenced your decision to take on this project? SEAN: No. I really enjoy working with Night and this was the next project he served up ... so I took it. How did the pandemic change the way you and your team worked on this project? SEAN: I think the biggest obstacle COVID presented was the remote playback of each episode. Luckily, Night has a fantastic screening room on his property. So I would sit at the mixing board at WB in NYC and go through each episode with Night via T-Vips and Zoom. He would give notes and I would respond in real time. Nothing beats being in the same room with the client but this was the next best thing. Was your vision seen through from initial spot to fi nal mix or did any interesting new perspectives arise along the way? SEAN: Oftentimes Night will get ideas when he hears parts of the mix. Sometimes these ideas lead to a different build than what was prepared ... but the more episodes we do together, the more in sync we get. But it's never really my vision ...it's his vision. He appreciates and allows me to bring a ton to the table ... but really I'm just trying to execute the story he's been putting on screen since the fi rst day of pre- production. Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing Episodic Short Form – Music VIKINGS: "The Best Laid Plans" Amazon Supervising Music Editors: YURI GORBACHOW MPSE MIKAILA SIMMONS Music Editor: LISE BEAUCHESNE What challenges did the team face and how did the sound add to the overall experience? YURI GORBACHOW MPSE, SUPERVISING MUSIC EDITOR: As no original music was scored for this episode, the music editor tracked all cues from two sources. 1) Seven out of 27 cues were derived from the Vikings score library, and 2) 20 out of 27 cues were derived from licensed Nordic songs.