All language subtitles for Module 36

And now let's have a look at me
walking through Hollywood at night

in La La Land.

You can hear the footsteps.

And the footsteps are very

a variant are a very important ingredient
in this scene.

The other thing about this
is this this little section

was very reliant on sound
and it's very subtle. But

part of the joke of this

is to show how long she's been walking

and to show each each cut of her walking

through each little section
as as a time cut.

And in order to do a time cut,

it was important to make sure that
every time we cut to a different frame,

the background sound,
the ambiance changed.

That was very important.

And for a time
when the sound department worked on it,

they had blended it all together
as one thing.

But that kind of killed the joke.

It killed the idea
that each cut was a time cut.

So it's very important
in this little section,

every time you cut to a different angle

to hear of a very different sound,
a different sound in the background.

So subtle, simple, but very important.

Also very important is to hear,

even when she's very small in the frame,

are very important to hear.

Those heels.

The heels from her shoes.

And that's part of part of the humor
of it.

Part of the joke is

you hear the heels.

Because by the time

you cut to this shot,
you hear the rhythm of the heels.

You can hear them slowing down,
which tells you

that she's been walking a long time
and that she's getting tired.

And that is supported by Emma Stone's

face in her performance,
which shows you that she's not happy.

And part of the part
so far, in order for that to come across,

you really need to.

Make those heels very important again.

Very simple.

Subtle, but
but but important for where we're going.

By hearing them to it.

It also suggests
how painful it probably is

to have to walk around
in these heels, in these high heels.

And again

filmed on location in Los Angeles.

And that background on this building
is a real background.

And some of the lights you see

here we kept in

because we like the feeling of it,
the flashing lights in the background.

Those lights are actually flashbulbs
from press photographers

who were trying
to get pictures of Emma Stone

because they were filming on location.

And so all these photographers came
and the crew

had to hold them back
and tried to keep them away,

but they still managed to get close enough
to take some pictures.

But we felt like

they felt like reflections

from some part of the city construction
or a headlight or something.

So it didn't bother us.

We like the quality of it,
but in actuality that those are flashbulbs

from press photographers.

And again,

you'll see a similar thing with this

and Damien's other movies,
but also with hostiles.

There's a reliance on

the face of the movie star.

And that's something that is is

an important ingredient
with Hollywood movies.

Again, you don't always

you don't always get to work with movie
stars.

You don't always get to work
with great actors.

Not everyone is is great.

But it's something when you're when
you have it, you really want to use it.

And in the case of hostiles
with Christian Bale

and Rosamund Pike, again, you want to
you want to

that's your currency, that's your gold,
and you want to really rely on that.

And in the case of La la Land, that's
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.

So you can see there's
a heavy reliance on on the face.

And this was very key,

this pre lap of music.

And they played this music on set

so that Emma Stone could hear it
and get into the right frame of mind

. But we had to.

Be careful about the synchronization

of what was happening outside of the door
and then the synchronization.

When we get inside
of the bar of the restaurant,

because it had to hit at a certain place.

And again here

I think we played
with the speed of the image a little bit.

And this lighting design,

a lot of this lighting
cue was done camera.

They dim the lights,
but then digitally we enhanced it

and darkened it even more while
we were while we were editing.