I recorded the foley and sound effects for this in my childhood home rather than in a studio, I wanted a rough around the edges selection of sounds for the film. The DIY sound is captured through the lack of acoustic treatment and the fact you can make out breathing and handling of the microphone which I think adds a human touch to the film that makes sense in terms of the feelings I was trying to display, leaving my own mark on the soundtrack of a film that was personal to me. I captured sounds by hiding microphones between parts of radiators and recording behind a sofa, using non traditional recording methods consequently got me strange sounds, in the film the character doesn’t feel like he belongs so these methods were an attempt at trying to mirror that with the sound.
In the industrial section of the soundtrack, as George is leaving the escalator I recorded more footsteps out of sync, I did the same later on and applied a delay onto it for the scene in which the man wearing the mask is walking over the bridge. Having sounds out of sync with what is happening on screen was a way to show that the character was out of rhythm with himself to the point where natural forces around him are incorrect, the sounds that leave him are not the sounds he is creating, he is living a chaotic life.