Field Of Sound

              

This is my field of sound project. Here I worked with a group of 4 students to capture video and audio at a certain location using different boom micing techniques. I first scripted out what we were going to shoot. I then established each student’s role in our project. I had two camera men, and one guy in charge of the audio. After I had my production crew together, we found student actors to be a part of our project.

                We shot a couple of interviews and also a music video. The point of this project was to capture audio at a specific location. So we mic’ed up each actor with wireless lavalear microphones and also used a boom micing technique to get the ambience sound of the room which we all call room tone. We also switched from different locations to experience different room tones.
            Working outside is always difficult, whether we were recording video or recording audio. We always ran into lighting problems with the sun or outside ambient noise such as traffic, airplanes, or the wind. Fortunately we were able to adjust to the problem. This project was a great experience for my team because they were all freshmen’s at the Art Institute. So I was able to teach them a few techniques I had already learned from my previous classes.
            Coming into this class, I was already a senior, so I knew most of the techniques already. It was just a matter of practicing and applying it. The students I was working with did not have a clue what to do, but after the 11 weeks of class, and practicing with me, they were able to do all the techniques we applied by their selves.

Heart Of A Champion

         

Heart of a Champion is a documentary project I co-produced with Tommy McNeely who directed the pilot. The documentary is about a boxing trainer named Jason Ingwaldson who was once a former boxer. The story touches up on Jason’s success as an amateur boxer and his struggles that took him to the top and almost nearly lost his life. But in the end, Jason has the Heart of a Champion and is now training other fighters.

                This project consisted with pre and post production services, along with a team to handle certain technical issues. We shot the documentary at Roy Jones Jr (the former world boxing champion in 4 different weight divisions) new boxing academy gym here in Las Vegas Nevada. From shooting to editing to music scoring the documentary pilot, I had my hands involved with everything.
                All the shooting was done in location while all the post production services was taken care of in the studio. This project took 11 weeks to complete. This was a step by step process that needed to be done according to plan. While we were shooting the documentary, we ran into a few problems. One problem was the location. Every fifteen minutes an airplane would fly over the gym which would disrupt the flow of the interview, and most importantly disrupt the audio that we were recording. Fortunately we were able to finish the interview, but had to pause every fifteen minutes.
            This project was a great experience because I am usually working strictly with mixing and mastering audio in the studio. Being able to learn how to record video really broadened my horizon as a producer. Also working for a credited project is always a plus. And most of all, working with other celebrities makes me feel like one as well.