Xavania Original · Feature
Chrome Sermon
92% match2026TV-MA2h 01mHDR · 4K5.1 + Binaural
A preacher sells absolution by the minute.
In a district where confession is a paid service, a machine-priest starts telling the truth and the economy of guilt collapses.
Cast & digital humans
Ari Halvard
Lead@ari-hal
On screen: machine-priest at the grille
Voice print: processed baritone with a choir undertone
SoulPrint Pro · face, eyes, hair, hands, wardrobe and voice locked across every take
Dov Bell
Supporting@dov-bel
On screen: paying penitent
Voice print: frayed alto
SoulPrint Pro · face, wardrobe and voice print locked; blocking free
Tobias Ferreira
Supporting@tobias-fer
On screen: arcade barker outside
Voice print: amplified, distorted
SoulPrint Pro · face, wardrobe and voice print locked; blocking free
Sound design — every person, action and object
Dialogue & voice
- Ari Halvard — Absolution is billed by the minute. Truth is free, and nobody wants it.Vocoded blend with a dry lav underneath, -23 LUFS
- Dov Bell — I paid for six minutes. Give me six minutes.Grille-filtered, 400Hz-4kHz
Foley — frame-matched to the render
Coin slot
Mechanical coin path with a real drop into the hopper
Confession grille
Metal lattice resonance when he speaks close to it
Chrome vestments
Plated panel clink on each movement, bright and metallic
Prayer counter
Split-flap digits advancing per second paid
LED candles
Relay tick as each rack lights
Ambience beds
- • Arcade crowd with tannoy bleed
- • Rain on the plaza outside
- • Power hum from the sign transformers
- • Distant congregation loop
Score
Choral samples pitched into a synth pad, then processed until the words are gone
Mix- • 5.1 and binaural stereo folds rendered from one bed
- • Dialogue -23 LUFS, trailer master -14 LUFS, true peak -1 dBTP
- • Every element is placed from its on-screen position and tracked as the camera moves
- • The priest's voice is one print doubled at 0 and -1200 cents, blended live with the picture's mouth open
- • No library loops on visible actions — each hit is cut to the frame it happens on
