Starting off I worked on many animations and created many various different sound design as it is what I enjoy doing. I am a musician at heart and study ethnomusicology to understand more about the culture of music and what drives humans to play instruments. My other sound interests are driven towards nature and the sounds that animals make, especially birds and insects. Examples of audio that incorporate ethnomusicology are Lake Keitele. This is a representation of how humans engage through perception of hearing to create a story that has a beginning middle and end, the birth, the child and existence.
I worked at the Edit and Sound Store where I was fortunate enough to work on many documentaries that gave me a good understanding of broadcast quality audio. I assisted on Andrew Marr’s History Of Britain, BBC Panorama, Christian the lion and Dispatches. My role was to continue working on the track lay over night on a one-week fortnight basis. During my week off I would seek other opportunities to learn more. I worked at De Lane Lea for a brief period and assisted on The Boat That Rocked, which was my first experience of working on big budget feature films.
After working within a feature film environment I soon left the Edit and Sound store and started a more technical role at Lipsync Post Production and assisted on feature films such as Mr. Nice, Coriolanus, Toast and The First Grader. Although this was more of a quality control role I spent a lot of the time with engineers such as Paul Cotterell and Rob Hughes and learnt a lot about ADR and mixing big projects. My time here was quite brief and not long after starting was offered a job a Factory Studios who based themselves more on being a bespoke sound design company.
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