Utah

I recently wrapped up work on Utah, a documentary short from director Kate Brown.

The aesthetic of the documentary involved all the audio being recorded on DAT tapes by Kate in Utah over multiple visits. We had many hours of recordings to master and creatively cut to the locked picture edit. Ultimately, we were able to comprise the entire soundtrack from the director's recordings. The documentary was mixed for both 16mm optical film and digital formats.

Utah was finaled at Danetracks

It was great to contribute on such an interesting project. Many thanks to Kate and the other collaborators, Felix Lau and John Creed for their hours of mastering/editing work and re-recording mixer Matt Kielkopf for making it sound great. I'll update the blog with more information about where the film will be screening at in the future.

"Sound is often subtle"

Just a few thoughts...

I've been reflecting upon my time in Los Angeles, and without a doubt it was a career affirming experience to have initially came out to intern at Danetracks.

I'm listening to The Matrix Reloaded playing on television as I write this post. I've always felt that the first Matrix film and Jurassic Park were influential on me wanting to get into audio post production and sound design.

Quick tangent -

I had the opportunity in 2011 to listen to Craig Berkey speak. Berkey used an example of horses from True Grit to discuss his take on editing. He explained that although sync is important, it’s sometimes equally as effective to concentrate on the “feeling” of the image rather than the cuts.

The concept of feeling being equally as important as sync is something that has really stuck with me.

I always enjoyed being the last person left at Danetracks at night talking with Dane about ideas such as feeling in sound design. Seeing Dane take a concept and hear what he created from things I got to assist in recording was inspirational.

I truly can't express my gratitude to Dane, Francine and the rest of the great people I met through Danetracks for sharing their perspectives on the industry and passing along honest advice.

Alright that's enough rambling from me for now. Here is an absolute must read interview in Mix Magazine with Dane, Eric and several others from Danetracks who worked on The Matrix trilogy.