Sound of Nothing

I liked this film, and the acting of the lead characters wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be given the budget. Even the zombie effects and makeup were not totally horrible, I've seen much worse. The locations were interesting and appropriate. The biggest production aspect I felt could have benefitted from improvement was the audio. I felt the dialogue mix left some to be desired and I could be wrong but my gut feel is that it comes from on location sound, it sounds like they were not using any wireless mics on the actors and only boom / shotgun mics because there is a LOT of room ambience and no direct dialogue sound. Looking at the locations, they are probably quite ambient. Also no ADR, many dialogue intelligibility issues could have potentially been addressed with ADR. As a result the dialogue is at times very quiet and sometimes not intelligible and I found myself bringing the volume up and down and even missed some lines. Anyway, I consider it a solid effort in the genre'. I look forward to the next release from this director, again a solid effort, it's not easy to make a movie and this was not bad at all!