Berberian Sound Studio

When Toby Jones character Gilderoy wakes up and hears an intruder breaking in the picture distorts and his grasp on reality starts to slip away.

This sequence was produced from rushes generated by 2nd Unit DOP Tim Sidell. Tim took the original scene, printed it to 35mm and shot it running through a Steenbeck whilst varying the playback speed. He printed up the results and filmed those too, again playing around with the playback and combining certain shots. He repeated this process a number of times with each generation of rushes more complex and interesting than the last giving us plenty of beautifully layered images to play with in the edit. 

I tried to keep the rushes as untreated as possible whilst working with the material, just adding a subtle doubling of the image with a slight timing offset in some places and  a post move judder to simulate a projector breaking down, so the finished result is pretty much a pure optical, non-digital effect. In order to achieve the burnt out image of Gilderoy Tim used a blowtorch on the film as he found he was unable to make modern filmstock burn using only a projector bulb, not like the good old days of nitrate film!