I'm honored that some sound edit and mix work of mine was a part of Walk the Moon Media's video presentations in Be the Match's 2019 One Forum, now nominated for a Best Filmmaking award from International Live Events Association-MSP's MNStarAwards. Congrats to all involved!
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Duluth-based animator Brian Barber brought me aboard to compose original music, edit sound and mix this PSA for the Keep Duluth Clean project, a collaboration between Loll Designs and Flint Group. I cooked up an original music track (more on that below) and augmented Brian’s sound effects with some of my own— for the pop cans thrown into the waste basket, I eventually wound up recording an aluminum can bouncing off the two-wheel cart in my storage space, since (surprisingly) I couldn’t find the right kind of metal-on-metal impact in my library. Oh, and the guy yelling “Ain’t that the truth!” toward the beginning is me.
Below: a music-only rendition of the project. The creative direction asked for bossa nova— Esquivel came up— but the reference tracks provided were things like Henry Mancini’s “The Baby Elephant Walk” and “Why Wait” by Perez Prado, so I figured we wanted something kitschy that would match the whimsy of Barber’s characters and settings, but a bit more “square” than Esquivel per se.
A couple of minor revisions on both the audio and visual ends, and we were good to go. A quick and easy project. Good times.
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My duties here included cutting up numerous voiceover performances by team members and layering them behind the main VO throughout the spot. I indulged in a frenetic pace of sound design to support the cascading visual sensibility. A fun project.
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