Struggling with accentuation, voice-over actors learned how to Act the Adjective, with a series of flashcards asking/reminding how adjectives (and ultimately adverbs) need to be addressed.

The Music department has studied chromaticism (playing notes right next to each other, something analogous to run-on sentences), merging genres of music (like merging film genres), and gated reverb, the echoey sound omnipresent in ‘80s music. The gated reverb explainer was the precursor for a bigger lesson about counting syllables to make music. One student used the counting lesson to write a ringtone to be featured in the film, using only dialogue from the script to find a rhythmic language.

The film’s score, composed by professional musician Dave Trevino, was commissioned early (Aug. 2021) with the hope that the music and the other departments would be influenced by each other. Early snippets of the score can be heard on the project’s SoundCloud page.

The Sound Design department’s catalog of ambient sounds will be used across the audio projects. Some sound was recorded in rounds: first with a close-up/specific intent then with a wide shot/general focus.