Watching the film No Country For Old Men there is a certain focus and attention to detail to the audio aspects (as well as the visual) in the creation of tension and mood through the manipulation of sound and the effect that silence can have on the audience. During the film there was little in the was of a score, preferring the use of silence to create tension. This meant that there was ample opportunity to be creative in the use of sound effects. Skip Lievsay, sound supervisor and re-recording mixer on the film, states in an interview for 'Focus Features' - "[we] concentrated effort to create simple and elegant sounds that helped progress the story... The simplified version is that you have to be quiet before you are loud. But there are other more complicated [strategies], like having the sound be ragged, or having things build upon and then pop in, or changing the balances between background and foley, like having footsteps be much louder than they normally would be"
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