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Federico Savina, the Sound Engineer of the 70° Venice Film Festival and Teacher at the Experimental Cinematography Center in Roma, tells us “the backstage” of the job of his life.
His career started at the end of the Neorealism age, when the movie fiction and the real life got mixed up.
In those years the poverty of everyday life was reflected in the narrowness of the means to build a film, nevertheless, at that time many young movie sound technicians were formed, and later they became the Italian excellence abroad.
And that happened also to Federico Savina, chosen as a sound engineer by the greatest directors of the twentieth century.
Without any presumption Federico Savina asks us:
What would be the movies of Neorealism, rebuilt with the present-day sophisticated technology?
What emotions would give, for example, the final scene of Miracle in Milan rebuilt through 3D and with the current techniques of sound recording?
It would be interesting to answer to these questions, but the greatest lesson that Federico Savina gives to young sound technicians, is to not consider the film as an indivisible unit, but to take it apart and rebuild it mentally, as an essential exercise for their job.
