I work as a Production Sound Mixer on Film and High End TV dramas and have been in the business for over 20 years. I have been fortunate enough to travel a lot with my work and enjoy a varied working lifestyle. I like to deliver the highest quality of sound recording and test the boundaries of excellence everyday. The challenge of everyday working on set is the difficult environments and making everything work there. Whether it be the mountains of Mongolia, the plains of Thailand, working within a community in Africa, each bespoke situation has the same amount of planning and attention to detail as the last, which brings satisfaction and an amazing experience.

Wednesday, 13 November 2024

Andor Season 2 coming in 2025! Had the fortune to work on this and very much looking forward to it coming out! Can't wait!






 

 Thanks to The Broadcast Bridge for this write up about myself and others on how we achieve the sound we do on set. Supported by Sennheiser, here is a link to read it-



https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/20560/location-sound-recording-with-the-experts-part-1








Friday, 23 February 2024

 

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