Sound designer and faithful collaborator Walter Murch was contacted by Coppola before the beginning of the shooting and touched more than one aspect of the film both during the shooting and the post-production; among his work on the film are the scene were the boat is patrolling on the river and stopping a Vietnamese boat (he felt like the viewers needed to see what the boat was doing in Vietnam when they were not carrying Kurt to his destination) some of the editing of the movie, but it most incredible contribution was for the sound. His debuts at Apocalypse Now were chaotic, he soon discovered that the crew did not recorded enough ambiance sound on location and that they were no sound database with the sound he needed for the weapons forcing him to dubbed most of the sounded of the movie himself.
The greatest achievement of Walter Murch is the sound he used for the helicopters, which were recorded at a Coast Guard station in Washington and still use in films today, more than being perfectly accurate he managed to give them a …show more content…
It mostly consisted on a TV trailer shown on most American network and a few previous screening with journalist in the weeks before the film release, most of the previews showed that the viewers did not understand the ending of the movie, which therefore was modified into the one we know now, but mostly the movie was advertised around Marlon Brando. Coppola who owned the right for the movie outside USA (United artist only owned the domestic rights) was offered to show the movie in completion at Cannes Festival, an opportunity he only accepted in mid-April 1979, less than a month before the beginning of the festival. As the movie was still in post-production, the version showed was an unfinished version. Most advertisement of the film came through the fact that it won the Palme d’Or at Cannes
The greatest achievement of Walter Murch is the sound he used for the helicopters, which were recorded at a Coast Guard station in Washington and still use in films today, more than being perfectly accurate he managed to give them a …show more content…
It mostly consisted on a TV trailer shown on most American network and a few previous screening with journalist in the weeks before the film release, most of the previews showed that the viewers did not understand the ending of the movie, which therefore was modified into the one we know now, but mostly the movie was advertised around Marlon Brando. Coppola who owned the right for the movie outside USA (United artist only owned the domestic rights) was offered to show the movie in completion at Cannes Festival, an opportunity he only accepted in mid-April 1979, less than a month before the beginning of the festival. As the movie was still in post-production, the version showed was an unfinished version. Most advertisement of the film came through the fact that it won the Palme d’Or at Cannes