HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM SQUAWK PRODUCTIONS AND JUNIOR BIRDMAN AUDIO!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! I teamed up with the good people at Squawk Productions to create this spooktacular greeting, dedicated to all you creatives out there who feel the pressure of… The Deadline. Custom music, sound edit, mix, and even voiceover performance (as well as the voices of the laughing ghouls, and the hissing snake) by Mike Hallenbeck at Junior Birdman Audio.

“Deadline” was born when I had lunch with animator Sam Thompson (half of Squawk) who I’d recently collaborated with on a project, but never met. The conversation turned to our common love of horror movies, and we decided it’d be fun to work together on something spooky sometime. We decided to do a Halloween-themed greeting aimed at our fellow creatives. Sam thought it’d be fun to equate the pressure of work-related anxiety with the scariness of Halloween, and “Deadline” was born.

Enjoy!

SOVIET SLEEP EXPERIMENT: AUDIO POST ASSIST, FEATURE FILM

Recently I’ve been assisting with audio post on the feature film “The Soviet Sleep Experiment”. Directed by Barry Andersson, and featuring an ensemble cast that includes Chris Kattan, the film premieres this Friday 10/18, 5:10 PM at Twin Cities Film Festival. I engineered and edited some of the ADR, as well as filling in some Foley, sound effects editing, and atmospheric ambience for mixer Jonathan Siri Mohs. From the spreadsheet of requests from the dialog editor, I noticed that a lot of screaming and other loud/ harsh vocalizations were needed. So I set up a more easily “punished” dynamic mic in the booth alongside the usual boom, so I could flip back and forth between them as needed. Turned out to be a good plan. Looking forward to hearing how it all worked out in the mix.

FX EDIT + MIX REEL: "ELIXIR" FACEOFF

A layer-by-layer demonstration of FX/ Foley edit and final mix on Justin Staggs' short film "Elixir". Here we see the process of building a sound design for the moment where our heroine stands up and ignites her magic powers to face off with a demon. I made sure that the droney “idling mode” of her hand energy drone was in tune with the score, to give us a comforting sense of “she’s got this”. The crackling electricity layer lent a dangerous edge to the potential energy.

The protagonist's voice is ADR performed by Molly Ryman. The demon voice was originally performed by Staggs, then chopped up and warped by yours truly. Music by David Gerald Sutton.

More sound edit and mix by Mike Hallenbeck for film