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88 I m ps e . o rg DAVID BARBER: Yes, one of the things that we were blessed with was that Clayne Crawford, who played David, came in and did a breathing pass for us on the stage. When we were going through the beginning of the film, we felt that we needed more of a connection with David in various scenes, and the simple sound of him breathing was precisely the connection we needed. The fact that Clayne was able and willing to come in and do that took things up several notches. In that date scene in particular, we went through and very delicately chose what aspects of the conversation at the front porch that we wanted to hear and just made sure that those got nudged up. And at the same time, we had Foley, production cloth, and the ADR breathing that Clayne gave us inside the cab of the truck. So when you're hearing pieces of this uncomfortable conversation, you feel David getting irritated through his breathing. It ended up being a wonderful blend of those sound elements to give you, the viewer, that same discomfort. RM: Yeah, and I just want to add that prior, Dave did an amazing job of cleaning up the dialogue so that you can hear both Derek and Jesse on the deck. And then I said, "Hey, we've got to choose how we go in and out of this." And so we made those deliberate choices, but it was funny because initially it was so very, very clear. PETER ALBRECHTSEN: That's the thing. You start mixing and you think for a moment, even on a Robert Machoian film, that this is just like a classic way of doing sound. So, you up the dialogue and then you realize, "Okay, no, you're not doing that kind of movie." And that's when things get interesting and creative. But, yeah, that was one of the scenes that we kept on refining in the mix as well. DB: Yeah, it's funny. Again, the gift of the collaboration and the creative courage to go there gave us this latitude. I know I've been beaten over the head with, "I can't hear the dialogue in the movie. I can't hear the dialogue!" So, when I looked at this scene straight up on our first pass-through, I'm like, "Oh, everybody's going to get upset if you can't hear what they're saying." So I cleaned