The Marvels (Additional Photography)

Director Nia DeCosta 

Working mainly in Longcross and Pinewood Studios in the UK we finished filming of the film The Marvels. 

My boom 1st Assistant Sound Kyle Pickford had the boom from a deck when we were shooting in the Hoopty ship due to its size and height.

Kyle Pickford 1AS being rigged with harness and gear to boom from height.

Jim Hok 1AS doing radio mics was working hard to make every details work for dialogue and radio mics would be placed on super suits.

This is a picture of the original super suit and a very delicate suit. We put the mic behind the main breast plate.

 Marvel's Secret Invasion we shot partially through the covid years in many locations around England.

Shooting in Halifax and we all got papped for the local news that day. For some reason the only photos of me are next to a bunch of bins

Shooting on location in London town. This is the set up with Aaton Digital's Cantar X3.

The shoot crew at Longcross studios. My guys! 1AS Kyle Pickford, 1AS Jim Hok, 2AS Mo Concas.

This is a film by Aneil Karia director of the Long Goodbye which was the Oscar winner for Best Live Action Short Film. Surge is about a man on the verge of a breakdown played by Ben Wishaw and you have the frenetic energy throughout the whole film as his character goes into a spiral downwards. 

The whole thing was shot handheld and in a frenetic way to encompass what Ben was doing in his performance. Scenes were done in one takes and spanned various locations so it was shot fast and logistically challenging. I had various mixing recorders to grab the dialogue that I moved between during scenes if they spanned large areas. Often I just needed to be fast on my feet and move quickly between sets. Various boom operators were used to be able to cover areas where it was dialogue heavy. It was a challenging yet really rewarding!

Here is the official video-

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10suikzwcjw

 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has won Movie of 2022 from People's Choice Awards.

Well done to them and great to be part of it. A treat to work with Sam Raimi who is a legend at what he does.

 The Long Goodbye by Aneil Karia. Featuring Riz Ahmed.

This was a hard drama to do the sound for as it was shot fluidly and constantly moving from shot to shot.

We achieved this with many radio mics and plant mics. 

The Long Goodbye won Best Live Action for a short so it is great to have been part of that process.

Just finished double banking on Hanna Series 2.

 Although staying on a smaller cart set up it got an upgrade with a small patch bay for 8 inputs and outputs. This is a 10.5inch 1U rack option that can be good for smaller set-ups. Also it featured a smaller power unit- PSC Powerstar Euro life- http://professionalsound.com/specs/powerStarEuroLiFE.htm
This gave me an extra 20AH battery for back up and AC power supply so it can act more like a big cart. It works really well and has 8 outputs and 4 USB ports.

It was also the first time working at the end of the shoot dates with a fully female team. Go team!
If you are a woman and interested in sound you can check these sites out: https://soundgirls.org/
https://www.womeninsound.com/

Top Boy Season 3- Netflix
Top Boy is soon to be back on the screens, having taken time out for a few years. It has moved from channel 4 to Netflix and follows the stories of Dushane and Sully again.
Written By Ronan Bennet and Produced by Cowboy Films. Season 3 is 10 episodes long and will air in July 2019.
My team and I did the sound on 7 of the episodes and it was a real labour of love.

Here is the mini cart hard at work on Top Boy. Many locations were small and hard to access so having a smaller rig was really beneficial. It did not give me the option for patchbays, or lots of power distribution but it did give me the option for easy access of locations and lightweight. Sometimes you have to give up some things to gain others.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1830379/episodes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4B8Xtzfc7Y

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