The A Sound Effect Blog

‘Young Woman and the Sea’ supervising sound editors Tormod Ringnes (also re-recording mixer/sound designer), Ben Meechan, Baard H. Ingebretsen, and Luke Gentry (also sound designer) discuss their approach to immersing the audience in the experience of Gertrude (Trudy) Ederle – an American competitive swimmer who became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Using custom-recorded water sounds, and ADR’d breaths and efforts, they express Trudy’s physical experience of grueling, long-distance swims in open water. Here, they talk about creating subjective sound for her POV, creating huge era-appropriate parade crowds, recording tons of water sounds, and so much more!