一个明星的诞生电影歌曲「来自电影一个明星的诞生的主题曲shallow是如何设计的」

Narrator: A Star Is Born has been nothing short of a phenomenon.

It's grossed over 400 million dollars worldwide, far surpassing its reported 36 million dollar budget.

The soundtrack debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and the movie was nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture.

Before breaking our hearts the movie makes audiences believe in the power of love and music.

One way it did that early in the movie was through those huge concert scenes that felt real.

Well, it turns out they were pretty much real.

Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga were singing live in those scenes.

♪ I'm off the deep end, watch as I dive in.

♪ ♪ I'll never meet the ground ♪ But that's not all that made these scenes great.

The film's sound team worked tirelessly during and after filming to make sure each sound would coalesce into the experience millions of us had in theaters.

We got a behind the scenes look at how they mixed and layered sounds for one of the toughest projects sound wise, in recent history.

This is the movie's team of sound editors and mixers.

Dean Zupancic, Steve Morrow Tom Ozanich and Alan Murray The team was nominated for the Best Sound Mixing Oscar and the films most famous song, Shallow was nominated for Best Song.

To give us the best possible idea of how sound impacted A Star is Born the team offered to break down the climatic scene that features Shallow.

If you've seen the movie, you know the scene.

Ally: Maybe that could work, like as a chorus or something.

♪ I'm off the deep end.

♪ ♪ Watch as I dive in.

♪ Narrator: After teaching Jack, Bradley Cooper her song Shallow in a parking lot Ally, that's Lady Gaga stands backstage at Jack's concert as he begins singing her song.

♪ Tell me something girl.

♪ He invites her to join him on stage and as the title of the movie suggests she's immediately launched into super stardom.

♪ Tell me something boy.

♪ The whole sequence of events starting with Ally's decision to quit her waitress job and head to the show to the end of Shallow lasts about 9 minutes and 30 seconds.

There are five essential sound elements in this sequence.

The process of layering helps squeeze in every little sound.

If you listen to each layer of sound isolated it's a little disorienting.

Jack: I'm going to sing it either way so. . .

♪ Are you happy in this modern world?

♪ Dean: There's the sound behind the stage.

There's the sound on the stage.

But there's also the sound into the audience and we had to deliver on those three difference planes.

Narrator: So let's take them one by one.

Without music playing you'll hear some effects that are typically invisible but become much more pronounced like the sound of a car door opening and the sound of footsteps.

These are known as Foley Sounds.

They are based on an actor's interactions and movements.

The sounds of footsteps are usually made by a Foley artist stomping around on a sound stage.

Gail: He's so excited that you're here.

Gail: Hi Ally, I'm Gail.

Ally: Hi.

Gail: Hi, oh you guys can leave your bags.

We'll grab them in a sec.

Ready?

Ally: Okay, sure.

Alan: The most important job, again is to get the dialogue clear enough so that they audience understands every word the actor's saying cause you've got to follow the story to get involved with the movie.

Jack: I did an arrangement, it was kind of not so great but uh maybe. . .

Narrator: Even with how loud the whole scene is one of the movie's most memorable exchanges can still be heard.

Gail: Hi Ally, I'm Gail.

Hi, oh you guys can leave your bags.

We'll grab them in a sec.

Ready?

Ally: Okay, sure.

Narrator: You can hear the band as background music even before Ally has reached the stage.

It provides a perfect heart-thumping soundtrack to the scene.

While the singing was live the instruments we hear were actually playback.

The band would mime along to the sound.

While they let the band play live in some takes all of what you hear in the final movie is pre-recorded instrumental playback.

Jack: How are you?

You made it.

Ally: I'm good. Hi. Jack: It's so good to see you.

Narrator: The sounds that the concert crowd make are a mix of pre-recorded digital sound and sounds actually captured on set.

During filming, the sound team put a surround sound mic in the crowd as well as mics on each side of the stage.

This helped them capture the appropriate ambient sound.

Steve: I mean, we never stopped them when we were shooting.

We were just like,"Go for it.

If you are excited, be excited." Narrator: You can hear the live crowd react during this one snippet.

The additional crowd sounds were carefully selected from a library of sounds and that's not as easy as it seems. You can't just use any old cheering noises.

For instance, people cheering at a football game are going to sound different than the crowd at a concert.

Jack: Thank you very much.

♪ I'll never meet the ground ♪ ♪ Crash through the surface ♪ ♪ where they can't hurt us ♪ ♪ We're far from the shallow now ♪ ♪ In the shallow, shallow ♪ Narrator: Of course, perhaps nothing was more important than actually hearing the actors sing.

Steve: Most musicals are playback and lip-sync and those all have their challenges.

This one, on the production side, was more challenging in the sense that it was all done live and you couldn't miss any take.

Every take that they gave they put their heart and soul in every single moment.

Narrator: To get the crowds really going and allow viewers in movie theaters to feel like they were part of that crowd they of course had to make sure the vocals sounded perfect.

They created custom reverb an effect that adds depth and echo to sound.

Steve: We mapped the space to give the audience the feeling that all the vocals were pumped live through the venue and you would hear it as you would hear it in the venue.

Narrator: And it ensures that any sounds recorded in the studio sound exactly like they were recorded on set.

It's a big reason why it feels like you're actually at this show.

In the end, they stitched every little sound together for an experience that constantly shifts between multiple dizzying perspectives.

The screaming, the guitar rifts the singing, the Foley footsteps make for an overwhelming, even awe-inspiring whole and that was the whole point.

A Star is Born broke a lot of rules that other movies with musical performances follow and that's part of the reason it connected with audiences.

Dean: gave us the freedom to be. . .

Steve: Creative.

Dean: Creative and vulnerable as well, you know, because. . .

The mixing stage, just like being on set there might not be as much of a focus of people on us but you're on a stage and you're scrutinized and if you're not given the freedom to express yourself creatively and to be vulnerable then you kind of hold back and play it safe sometimes.

We were given the opportunity not to be safe.

♪ Tell me something boy, ♪ ♪ Aren't you tired trying to fill that void? ♪

♪ Or do you need more? ♪