I enjoyed creating the foley for this film. I got to experiment and find lots of creative solutions. I had to cover a giant walking octopus, a sentient tree, humanoid rabbits, assorted robots, spaceship crashes and dream sequences. This lead to me making all sorts of weird and wacky props. The clip below gives a sense of one of the worlds that the characters inhabit . The award nomination was the icing on the cake! An IMDB link is available here
James Blunt’s career trajectory has been an interesting one. From a British Army tank captain to a best-selling artist to -seemingly- one of the most hated people in show business. This was followed by a career revival sparked by a willingness to verbally eviscerate himself and anyone else willing to spar with him on social media.
I completed the dialogue edit and premixed the dialogue, music and SFX for this film (I am credited as dialogue editor and re-recording mixer). Mixing fly-on-the-wall camera-sound with feeds from the back of a concerts mixing desk was tricky in places, but it was time well spent. I believe that the audience gets a good sense of who James and the band are behind the scenes. Listeners also gain a front row, surround sound experience of high points from many gigs.
I worked as dialogue editor for all eight epsodes. It can be very challenging to clean up sound for a period drama set in the countryside- there is nowhere to hide when filtering out planes/ cars. The New South Wales cicadas and birds were often busy. The trailer is below, and the show is currently available via SBS on Demand.
More information available using this IMDB link
I completed the sound design and mix for this short drama back in 2021 (lots of good dialogue editing and sound design by Leah Mckeown + Foley by Baylon Fonseca). It has had a good festival run picking up a lot of gongs along the way including this prize at the South Australia Screen Awards. If you are Australia based you can click here for link to view it on SBS on demand.
Click here for prize listings information https://www.getbackjojo.com.au/djaambi
“This is going straight to the pool room”(If the reference means nothing, click here for a link to a clip from ‘The Castle’ ). Photo just in from my UK press office AKA my mum’s kitchen table. ‘Who Killed The KLF’ covers the stranger than fiction story of the UK band. Following on from a theatrical release It is currently available to stream on SBS in Australia and More 4 in the UK. It’ll make you laugh, dance/tap your feet then either think “OK, so that was what they thought they were thinking, but WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING?” or it may just inspire you to do something bold and wreckless..
I was supervising foley editor so no tuxedo or night out in the bright lights. All the same, I am happy to be working on content people like. You can view information on Savage Rivers award nominations visible using this IMDB link. Nb I posted more info on Savage River back in February 2023 when it was AACTA nominated for best sound in TV.
I was supervising foley editor for this crime thriller set in small town Australia. If you are in Australia you can use this link to stream the programme via the ABC If not, I’ve attached the trailer and a clip that the ABC shared below.
I did the sound design and mix for this short scripted film, based on real events. The synopsis is “On the cusp of his initiation, a young Aboriginal boy, Mungo, has a chance encounter with James Ashton and his travelling circus in 1853” I have just found out that it won this prize among others on a good festival run- A relief as the film was finalised as COVID was starting to get going so I didn’t know what was going to happen . It was shot near Tamworth (New South Wales) there was a lot of scope to immerse the audience in the sound of the Australian bush and then contrast this with circus sounds. Trailer viewable below
More information on the film and the prizes it has picked up is available at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12319304/awards/?ref_=tt_awd
I did the dialogue edit on this many moons ago with Mix by Vincent Watts. It’s great that something I worked on has been listed amongst so many films I love! It had already featured as number 36 in Sky Movies top 100 all time documentaries -so it has some form here! Screen Grabs of the relevant section below or use this link to go to the original article in The Guardian (UK)
Trailer is viewable below:
I worked on the foley for this show. All shot in Queensland, it made me want to get out of the studio and on a plane. I’ve been an Australian citizen -on paper- for a year but now I’ve covered a season in Bryan Brown’s blundstone boots I feel a fraction closer to being ‘dinky di’. Use this link to go to the ABC site. ACORN TV trailer is below.