Marae — film sound post-production

Marae is a film that shows well just how much cinema depends on sound. Regardless of genre, every film goes through the same decisive stage: the sound recorded on set is only raw material, and the real soundtrack is created later — in the studio, scene by scene. That is where the image gains fullness, depth and emotion.

The role of sound and post-production

Sound post-production for a feature film is a process made of several layers that only together form a complete track.

It begins with dialogue editing. Production sound is often uneven — ambient noise, changes of shot, differences between takes. The editor cleans and orders the tracks, records breaths, smooths transitions and, where necessary, prepares the material for possible re-recording. The result is meant to be invisible: the viewer should not think about the dialogue at all, only listen to the characters.

The second layer is sound design and the building of atmosphere. These are the ambiences, effects and textures that give the scene its place, time and mood. The silence of an empty room, the breath of the wind, the subtle background beyond the window — these elements act on the viewer often below the threshold of awareness, and decide whether they will believe in the world of the film. To this is added Foley — hand-recorded footsteps, touch, objects — restoring physicality to the scenes.

The third layer is music and its placement within the whole, and everything is bound together by the final mix. It is the most artistically important moment of post-production: the decision about the proportions of dialogue, music and effects, about the dynamics, about when to strike with a full sound and when to hand the scene over to silence. The mix gives the film its final emotional shape and decides how it will sound in the cinema, in home cinema and on headphones.

The All In Sound approach

We approach sound post-production the same way every time: first we listen to the director’s intention, then we patiently build the sound layer until image and sound begin to work as one.

At the heart of this work is the mix , which merges dialogue, effects and music into a coherent, breathing whole. Just as important is sound design and sound editing — it builds the atmosphere and detail of every scene before everything reaches the mixing desk.

We work in a 5.1 editing/mixing room at a standardised monitoring level, with a 4 TB sound library. But what matters most in film post-production is attentiveness — patiently refining every detail until the film sounds exactly as it should.

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