Saturday, 28 November 2015

K'rd Stories

K'rd stories - a set of ten short films based around life on Auckland's infamous K'rd wrapped today.
We performed foley, editing dialogue, tracklayed effects and mixed a number of these shorts for the screenings that will be held at various locations on K'rd next week:)




Saturday, 24 October 2015

Ash vs the Evil Dead Foley

Holy shit!! What an amazing 3 months of audio adventures during the creation of the Foley and sound design for this show. Amy, Gareth, Jonathan and myself provided the Foley for Episodes 2 to 10 (Ep 1 being done in LA for Sam Raimi) and during the progression of the series, Jonathan and Gareth also started doing the SFX track lay for episodes 6 to 10.
So it was a very busy and very rewarding 3 months worth of work!!!
Aside from recording some great Foley and insane Gore, we provided a Chainsaw record for the SFX team, got to do a gun record with some of the weapons from the show (under the watchful supervision of the licensed owner), go crazy with some grinder recording and visit the set to record the legendary Delta (what a beast of a vehicle) and Ruby's car.
I could continue for paragraphs explaining the fun but its better to see a few pics:)


Boomstick goodness in the form of a decommisioned shotgun


Chainsaw maaaadness.....


Mic set up for Chainsaw record - incl starts, swings, cutting, hacking and general moves pass


Mr Damian Del Borello - one very excited sound recordist upon hearing the chainsaw moves


The arsenal used for the guns record, under the strict supervision of the licensed owner


Rifle moves and running


No ones getting outta here alive.....


Mr Jonathan Bruce


With the legendary Delta - what a solid, amazing sounding vehicle!


Sampling the smoothness of Ruby's car


The finale meal to celebrate the end with the AVED sound team minus Mr Jonathan Bruce

Monday, 20 July 2015

PP Returns...

Look who just staggered back into town, loaded with American Foley knowledge and ready to crack onto some Evil Dead.... Welcome back buddy:)



Saturday, 4 July 2015

Evil Dead research..!!

With Ash vs the Evil Dead just around the corner, it'd be rude not to set up a marathon viewing..;)
Oh the hard work that is research hahaha....



Wednesday, 17 June 2015

Step Dave Season 2

Again, another month almost gone, packed to the brim with Foley performance and editing!
This time its a few episodes of Step Dave Season 2 - Eps 7, 8 and 10.
The feet had already been performed at Images so G and myself handled the cloth and props.
Good times with handbags, eating, drinking and a lot of cloth!!



Saturday, 30 May 2015

Born to Dance Foley

Dam, where has the month of May gone already...?
Foley for Born to Dance - thats where!!
Feet, cloth, props, G-swagger, backpacks and more high five's/finger snaps than I thought possible in a film!!
Alotta fun was had though!!








Saturday, 9 May 2015

Bedhead....

Another 2 days in the studio this week with A.Barber at the helm and a pilot for an Aussie Tv show show to complete! Feet, props, telephone cords, glasses and quite the computer masturbation scene made for a very hilarious two days!

No poster yet for the show so this image will have to do in the meantime!


Friday, 10 April 2015

Dialogue ADR editing

Editing of the ADR for the Stan Walker film Born to Dance started today,
A great insight into the process of syncing dialogue from an ADR session into a film, taking into account perfromance and then editing that performance to the exact original.


Thursday, 2 April 2015

Foley for Beyond the Known World

Foley Performance for the two days at Tone Audio this week, with car door grabs and general car / bus rattle the order of the day!!


The rattle of old vehicles....

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

2 days a week in at The Foley Room!!!

Wooooohooooo!!!
After convincing my current employer to allow me to drop my day job hours back to 3 days a week,
I will now be able to take up the offer of 2 days a week training at Tone Audio, under the watchful eye of the talented and very generous Amy Barber!!! Starting today!! Hell yeeeeees:)




Located in the Foley Room facility in Ellerslie, the work will include general session preparation, foley performance, foley editing, track laying and dialogue editing. Having had over 10 years of Post experience (incl 5 years at Reade Audio), Amy is passionate about high end audio for film and tv, and will be an amazing person to learn from. Bring it on!!!!!

Saturday, 7 February 2015

DEATHGASM FOOOOOLEY!!

As the foley for Deathgasm is falling on the 2 weeks I'm in Europe on tour, the very kind and generous A.Barber allowed me to get a head start and crack out a day of foley on it this weekend!!
Horror, gore, chainsaws, bogans and bullet belts - it doesn't get much better than this!!!!


Only Tools and Corpses - props from the film


Hacked in the back and dumped in a sack.... 


Saturday, 31 January 2015

Short Film Foley

Christmas and New years have been and gone already and we're back into it!
With January coming to a close already, I managed to spend the last two weekend performing foley for 3 short films. Always fun doing shorts, as there is a lot of variety in a short space of time.
Cheers to A.Barber and M.Logie for the recording....


Busy times!


The art of Foley writing.....


Wiiiiiilllllllsssssssooooooooooonnnnn!!!!