I had the great pleasure of working on the Sound Design for Prospect (Directed by Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell) with Brendan Hogan and Jamie Hunsdale at Impossible Acoustic. This film gave us a unique opportunity to create a soundscape for a whole new universe.
https://www.impossibleacoustic.com/
“Detailed sound design and a score composed of bassy rumbles and eerie tubular noises flesh out what the eyes cannot see. Though the narrative is small and the stakes are low, it all feels like part of a bigger universe. If anything, this is what the standalone “Star Wars” movies should feel like.” - Variety
Wallflower is a fictional drama about the tragic Capitol Hill massacre of 2006. The film is directed and written by Jagger Graving.
I worked on the sound design on this film for Bad Animals and was mix by David Gallander. The film premiered at the 2017 Seattle International Film Festival.
Here is a link to the films IMDB page:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6983908/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt
Dynamo is a sci-fi/cyberpunk series that is created by the extremely talented Ian Hubert. I had was able to work on the series with Impossible Acoustic.
Dynamo Teaser and Ep6
Sound Effects Editors
BRENDAN J. HOGAN
PAUL ERIC MILLER
JAMIE HUNSDALE
WESLEY SLOVER
Foley Recordist BRENDAN J. HOGAN
Foley Artist JAMIE "FOLEY RAMBO" HUNSDALE
Dialog Editor Paul Eric Miller
Re-Recording Mixer BRENDAN J. HOGAN
Amajii is a short film that is part of the Strowlers series. Strowlers is a shared cinematic universe.
Amajii takes place in Mongolia and is about a medical student on her way to study in Australia and witnesses a vision from the past that threatens everything she thought she knew.
It was an incredible experience to work on the sound for this film with Impossible Acoustic . There are so many rich textures in this film from the sound design to the amazing music of the film.
Sound Team:
Brendan J Hogan: Re-Recording Mixing / supervising sound editor
Jamie Hunsdale: Foley Artist
Paul Eric Miller: Sound Designer and Dialogue Editor
Location Sound: David Richards
Watch the film film here:
https://watch.thefantasy.network/episode/strowlers-03
The Strowlers series can also be viewed on Amazon Prime
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07HLB8WJF
More information about Strowlers
http://strowlers.com/
The Traveler is a short film that is part of the Strowlers series. Strowlers is a shared cinematic universe.
The Traveler is about Pepper Jones, who mysteriously has’t aged since the 1940’s and travels to rural Ireland to fulfill a promise made 60 years ago.
The Traveler is a perfect example of how a film can be transformed with post audio. The film was shot with a skeleton crew in Ireland and had a limited amount of production audio. By adding layers of ambiances brought the remote Ireland coast line to life. Also Brendan Hogan did a amazing job on the final mix. Jamie Hunsdale was able to give sonic movement to the characters with foley and voice to the actors with the additional ADR that was recorded.
Sound Team:
Brendan J Hogan: Re-Recording Mixing / supervising sound editor
Jamie Hunsdale: Foley Artist / ADR Recordist
Paul Eric Miller: Sound Designer and Dialogue Editor
Watch the film film here:
https://watch.thefantasy.network/episode/strowlers-02/
The Strowlers series can also be viewed on Amazon Prime
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07HLB8WJF
More information about Strowlers
http://strowlers.com/
Strowlers is the pilot episode for the Strowlers Series.
Film Synopsis:
Magic has returned to the modern world. In response, the U.S. Dept of Arcanology has tasked government magic users to collar and train everyone with talent. But on the fringes of society, the Strowlers believe magic is for everyone.
For this film I primarily worked on creating the ambiances. The was a combination of creating ambiances for both the modern and magical worlds.
Sound Team:
Brendan J Hogan: Supervising Sound Editor / Foley Artist
Jamie Hunsdale: Foley Artist / Sound Effects Editor
Noah Bonds: Dialogue Editor ? Sound Effects Editor
Paul Eric Miller: Sound Effects Editor (Ambiances)
Watch the film here:
https://watch.thefantasy.network/episode/strowlers-01/
The Strowlers series can also be viewed on Amazon Prime:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07HLB8WJF
More information about Strowlers:
http://strowlers.com/
Death Planet Rescue is a Sci-Fi film that can be experienced at MoPop Holodome. The Holodome is an immersive reality space. It is like VR but with out the goggles. The Holodome is a dome that is the size of a typical room that has video projection on all surfaces. The audio is in a immersive surround sound format that even has floor shakers.
I helped Brendan Hogan and Jamie Hunsdale of Impossible Acoustic to bring the sound to life for this project.
Sound Team:
Brendan J Hogan: Re-Recording Mixer / Sound Designer
Jamie Hunsdale: Foley Artist / Sound Effects Editor
Paul Eric Miller: Dialogue Editor / Sound Effects Editor
Here is the link to purchase tickets if you want to experience Death Planet Rescue at MoPOP’s Holodome: http://www.mopop.org/holodome
I had a great opportunity to help out Impossible Acoustic with the sound design work on a series of three 360 VR videos for So Krispy Media.
Do Not Touch (360 VR)
Video Game Vehicle (360 VR)
Tiny Tank (360 VR)
Out of the series of the three VR videos the one that I did the most sound design work on was Do Not Touch. That was a tricky project with all of the design and movement aspects of going in and out of paintings.
For Video Game Vehicle I helped Jamie Hunsdale with some additional sound editing support. Jamie Hunsdale did an amazing job with the sound design in that video.
For Tiny Tank I designed the electric servos and movements of the robotic tank.
The Re-Recording (Ambisonic) Mixer and Supervising sound editor for all three videos is the great Brendan J Hogan.
Here is a link to Impossible Acoustic website:
https://www.impossibleacoustic.com/
The Collette Someday is the first spot for the Collette Travel Ad series I sound designed and mixed for Gnarly Bay. This is a beautiful and moving spot filmed on location in Ireland. The mix for this spot is a great blend of sound design and music creating a foundation for the VO to shine.
Link to Gnarly Bays Website:
http://www.gnarlybay.com/
The Collette Someday is the second spot for the Collette Travel Ad series I sound designed and mixed for Gnarly Bay. This is an amazing spot and is a unique commercial project in that there is not VO throughout the video and really let the sound design and visuals tell the story.
Link to Gnarly Bays Website:
http://www.gnarlybay.com/
Sound Design and Dialog Editor
Alaska State Troopers is a reality TV show featured on the National Geographic channel that features one of the toughest law enforcement agencies in the nation. In the series you will see the troopers responding by land, air, and sea to protect the people and wildlife of Alaska.
I had the opportunity to work on various episodes of Alaska State Troopers from season 3 to season 7 through my freelance work at Bad Animals. Typically a TV show of this nature would not have a full sound design edit pass and would mostly consist of production audio but with Alaska State Troopers to make the show even more realistic and bring the viewer into the life of a State Trooper we would do a full sound design pass. The main focus would be to enhance footsteps, car, utility vehicles, boats, airplanes and much more.
In addition to doing sound design for the show I also would be involved with the dialog edit. The main focus of the dialog edit for Alaska State Troopers was to smooth the dialog elements and make them sound as natural and realistic as possible.
Here is a link to more video clips and information about the TV show.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/alaska-state-troopers/
The Gamers: The Shadow Menace continues The Gamers story and is the first episode of The Gamers Series. The Gamers is created by Dead Gentlemen Production and Zombie Orpheus Entertainment. I worked on the production with Impossible Acoustic.
Brendan J Hogan: Re-Recording Mixer / Supervising Sound Effects Editor
Jamie Hunsdale: Foley Artist and Sound Effects Editor
Paul Eric Miller: Sound Designer and Dialogue Editor
Here is a link where you can rent and watch the whole episode on Vimeo.
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/gamerstheseries/
(Note: We did not do the sound for the trailer.)
Civil is a short film created by Stephen Takashima. Civil is about a young door to-door salesman who finds that getting his first sale is the least of his worries.
I had a great time sound designing and mixing this film. This film also had a amazing score composed by Ryan Marth from Dead Sound.
You can watch the whole short on the video to the right. The short has been featured on Omeleto’s YouTube channel.
Hurry Up And Wait is a short film created by Dick W. Schulz. I worked on this project with Impossible Acoustic.
This project was a live projection mapping piece at a EuroLeague basketball game in Spain. This was a fun and unique project that I got to sound design for Impossible Acoustic and Wesley Slover at Sono Sanctus. Wesley Slover was the lead on the project and also did all of the music composing. The amazing projection mapping was done by Tigerlab.
Re-Recording Mixer and Sound Editor
The [206] is a local comedy show featuring local comedians from the Seattle area. The [206] airs on NBC after Saturday Night Live and Sundays after the King 5 11pm news. The [206] is the successor to the Almost Live! and much of the comedy is related to Seattle events and culture.
For the three seasons that The [206] was in production I was responsible for the final mix and the dialog edit. The time frame of the audio edit and mix is extremely short because many times the shows live audience taping would be the same week the show aired on TV. Another challenge with mixing this show is that some of the sketches were pre-mixed and it proved to be a task to get the pre-mixed sketches to blend with the final mix of the tapped show. Also since this show is filmed with a live audience that brought a different dynamic in to how I approached mixing this show. There is a fine balance between the on-screen dialog of the show and the crowds reactions. One of the aspects of the show that I love is the broad range of material that you get to work with from standup comedy, to a movie trailer parody, to a band performing, and everything in between.
The [206] YouTube page
https://www.youtube.com/user/the206tv
Sound Designer and Editor
Biz Kids is a TV show on PBS where kids teach kids about money and business. The show had a total of five seasons and was aired all over the world. Also Biz Kids has also been nominated for multiple daytime Emmy Awards.
At Bad Animals one of the projects that I worked on was Biz Kids. My main role was to help Mike McAuliffe (Lead Sound Designer) with any extra sound design that needed to be added to the show. The profile sections of the episodes were the main parts that I worked on. The sound design for Biz Kids is gear for kids and is much different than the sound design that I am use to doing in films. This TV Series has improved my work flow and sound design pallet.
The National Academy Of Television Arts and Sciences
Nomination in Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Live Action
2012-2013 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards
Link to official webpage.
A Matter of Prejudice is a short film by Sandra Lince. “The film takes a modern twist on an 1893 short story by Kate Chopin and explores the beauty of love and acceptance when an aging woman finally overcomes her prejudice.”
I had a great time sound designing and mixing this film. It is always so amazing how much the details in the sound design and foley can help bring the film to life, even when it is a dialogue focused mix. This film also features a beautiful score by Sammy Applegate.
Here is a link to watch the whole film on Amazon Prime:
https://www.amazon.com/Matter-Prejudice-Gboungu-Clamoungou/dp/B07FJZG878/
Sound Designer and Dialog Editor
Re-Recording Mixer: Brendan Hogan
Take the Game with You is an online advertisement for Acer America showing their new Acer Predator 17 inch laptop with Intel Core i7 processor that is designed for gamers.
For this project I helped with the sound design and dialog edit for Brendan Hogan. The project turned out great and Brendan did an awesome job on the final mix.
Re-Recording Mixer and Sound Designer
Threads is about the art and life of Surayia Rahman. Surayia Rahman is a self-trained, passionate artist who guided hundreds of underprivileged women in Bangladesh to create masterworks. This exquisitely hand embroidered art has been gifted to dignitaries and admired in collections throughout the world.
I had the amazing opportunity to mix this film with Steve Barsotti my former instructor and mentor from the Art Institute of Seattle. We both had a great time collaborating with Cathy Stevulak (Director/Co-Producer) to create an auditory landscape to bring the story of Surayia Rahman to life. In addition to the sound design and dialog of the film we also got to incorporate the original score of traditional and modern music from Bangladesh by the works of Tanveer Sajeeb Alam.
Here is a link to the official webpage for Threads: The Art and Life of Surayia Rahman.
Sound Desinger
Black & White is a collection of visual elements that James Reeves filmed and edited for me to create a sound design experience. For this project I wanted to create organic sounds that intercepts with digital sounds. Many of the sounds in this project are severely pitched down 192kHz recordings. The great aspect of 192kHz sample rates is that it gives you amazing resolution to pitch shift recordings. Depending on the frequency response of your microphones once you start pitch shifting 192kHz recordings you will start to hear rhythm and elements that you typically cannot hear in the human hearing range. Once the 192kHz recordings are pitched down they transform into a whole new composition.
Sound Designer
RAILRAIN is the final sound design project that I did in my Sound Design II class at The Art Institute of Seattle. My instructor, Chris Delaurenti, an amazing sound artist in his own right, supplied the abstract footage. I love working with abstract visuals and creating soundtracks from a limitless palette of sounds. Even though this project is very abstract, it is one of my favorite works and its sound elements translate very effectively to the commercial side of audio post-production. I endeavored to push the sound in this film to a point where the visuals and sound perfectly supported each other. I wanted this piece to be a very dramatic, in your face, and non-stop. In order to accomplish that and make the film come alive, I had to make the piece as dynamic as possible. This was the last project that I worked on at The Art Institute of Seattle and I can happily say that it brought my sound design work to a new level. It was a great project to make my first step into the real world of post audio.
Location Sound Recordist and Mixer
Satsop is an abstract music recording inside of a nuclear cooling tower. The Satsop Nuclear Plant was began construction in the 1970’s and was going to be the larges nuclear power plant project in U. S. history. The Nuclear Plant was stopped because the budget swelled to $24 billion and there was a lot of public rejection to the plant. One portion of the project, plant 3 (Were the Recording took place) was 85% compete with even the reactor in place but was never finished. The Satsop nuclear plant was later converted in to a business park but most of it is still abandon. Cooling tower three where the recording took place stands over 480 feet tall and is one of the most amazing acoustic places in the world.
My department director Steve Barsotti was the first to introduce me about later recording he performed there. Ever since he told me about this location I was determined to record in that space and in my second to last quarter that dream became reality. I organized a location recording in the most complete cooling tower at the nuclear site with artiest including Stewart Dempster, Paul Kikuchi and Steve Barsotti. We did a 5.1 decca tree and an over 350 feet stereo pair microphone set up. This was the most amazing location recording I have ever done and I can’t wait to go back.
Audio Engineering
Paul Miller, Fernando Labarthe, and Seth Moore
Cinematography
James Reeves
Sound Designer and Editor
Scouts Honor:Badge To The Bone is a full-length film featuring Chris Kattan, Fred Willard, David Schultz, Dianna Agron, and many more. Scouts Honor is a comedy about two brothers, David and Tim Appleorchard, who must earn their first merit badges in order to keep the camp from falling into their brother’s hands.
I became part of the post-production sound crew when Art Institute of Seattle faculty member, Jake Perrine, asked me to help along with two fellow students, Josh Svare and Ryan Weadon. Together we completed sound editing and mixing for this in less than a month—I focused primarily on SFX.
Location Sound Recordist and Mixer
I got the amazing opportunity to help record the Portable Sanctuary album with Bob Schwenkler in one of the best acoustical sounding environments in Seattle. With the generous support of Sound Transit and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture Affairs we were allow full access to record in the great hall of Union Station. It was a great experience to help record Paul Kikuchi one of my instructors from the Art Institute of Seattle.
Artist Included:
Paul Kikuchi
Stuart Dempster
Bill Horist
