Reality show completed

After some epic weeks of after hours editing, learning and a doubling of coffee intake, I managed to get the dialogue editing completed on episodes 3 thru to 7 of The Reality Trip - an upcoming TV show based on overseas adventures of some NZ teens.
Big thanks to Amy Barber for her patience and advice during these sessions - it was a great learning experience and looking forward to more!

Upgrade time again...

And its just an empty box - not even an installer disk this time...

Reality TV editing 101

After receiving the call from The Foley Room,  I headed out to ellerslie get some schooling in the art of track laying for television. It was great to be back out there and the room re-arrangement and general vibe of the place was awesome!!
I was sent home with EP 3 of an upcoming Reality show and some long nights ahead - bring it on!!

Faderport  kindly on lend from G

A weekend in the Studio....

After receiving a nice new pair of mallets in the mail this week, I have been itching for the weekend to roll around so I could get some metal surface recording done for an upcoming Industrial cover song I'm working on for a local band.

After borrowing a few metal drums and some scrap metal from work, I mic'd up and let it roll.

The mallets were great - hard headed but different velocities gave very different results as well as

wrapping the heads in socks and other such softeners for less attack and more ambience.

For the over driven, all encompassing ring of metal needed

Mallets - Sock on, Sock off....

V48Hr Film Fest 2014: Foley and Post Assistant for team Bang on Bob

Assisted with Sound Editing and Foley this year, with team Bang on Bob.
They got 'revenge' as the theme and went the idea of a corporation that specializes in revenge
jobs for their clients. Very cool:)
We were lucky enough to have a special effects guy bring the blood, so I got to re-create some
great squishes and splatters for a head explosion and a leg impaling.
Bring on the water melons!!!

Before: Tools of the trade...

After: I will be finding bits of melon everywhere for the next few weeks...

Here we go again!!

Metal goodness

After a last minute call today, I threw my sound kit in the car and headed to Mt Roskil as a friend I have been hassling for ages finally cranked up his arc welder for some work he had planned...
I managed to capture a lot of the welding, from long intense runs to short bursts of crackle and hiss.
Imagining quite a rich, intense sound, I was stoked to hear how crisp and gloriously harsh it actually was in real life....
Back to the studio to clean it up and mangle it beyond recognition!!