The Hidden Magic Behind Our Sound Design

When people talk about movies, they usually think of what they can see the visuals, the lighting, the performances. But some of the most powerful moments in film aren’t seen at all. They’re felt through sound.

At Imoria Pictures, sound design is where our worlds truly come alive. Every rustle of leaves, every echo in a cave, every trembling note in the score it’s all carefully crafted to make you feel something. Sound has the power to guide emotion, reveal hidden details, and breathe life into stories that exist beyond the frame.

For our short film COSMO, this philosophy went to an entirely new level.

The score was composed by Devesh Sodha, an award-winning composer whose music gave the film its soul blending wonder, loneliness, and beauty into something otherworldly. To bring that music to life, we collaborated with the Budapest Scoring Orchestra, a 59-piece ensemble known for working on legendary franchises like Star Wars, Disney’s Zootopia, and The Elder Scrolls.

We joined them live over Zoom, directing the session as they recorded our score in real time. Watching our film’s world fill with sound was surreal like hearing imagination take its first breath.

The final mix was handled by Alan Meyerson, one of Hollywood’s most respected sound engineers, whose credits include The Dark Knight, Inception, and Dune. Alan helped shape the sonic depth of COSMO, layering subtle detail into every frequency so the audience wouldn’t just hear the story they’d feel it.

For us, sound isn’t just a technical step in post-production. It’s storytelling. It’s emotion. It’s the invisible thread that connects every heartbeat of a scene to the audience sitting in the dark.

That’s the hidden magic of sound when done right, you don’t notice it at all. You just believe.