The Foley Artist Short Film
The Foley Artist is a recent award-winning short film showing a fashionable lady in a film, with a Foley Artist at work in the studio on the sound design. Quite well done, and somewhat amusing:
Creative Business in Australia
The Creative Industries Innovation Centre have published a book of their findings on the “state of the industry” of the creative industries here in Australia. It looks like it might be interesting reading for those in creative businesses. Check it out at: Creative Business in Australia
Deadline 2025
The National Film and Sound Archive do fine work in preserving Australian’s recorded film and sound heritage, and they have released a discussion paper outlining the importance of large scale digitisation of magnetic tape based media over the next ten years. Check it out at: http://www.nfsa.gov.au/2025/
Slipperman’s Distorted Guitars from Hell
I recently stumbled across Slipperman’s Distorted Guitars from Hell again – it’s great reading for music recording and mixing engineers, although can be a bit random and waffling at times. One of the issues is that it was published in a sprawling online format which can be hard to read or come back to. I … Read more Slipperman’s Distorted Guitars from Hell
Online Music Loudness
Ian Shepherd from Production Advice UK has put together a nifty infographic showing the current state of loudness for online music platforms. For the big 3 of Apple Music, YouTube and Spotify, it shows how mastering any louder than -11LKFS is a waste of time and dynamics. Check it out at: http://productionadvice.co.uk/online-loudness/?awt_l=LnRBg&awt_m=3j4kGiVYo8WrcYV
Past Imperfect takes out Best Film at Canberra Short Film Festival
Georgina Jenkins’ short film Past Imperfect was announced Best Film in the Canberra category at Canberra Short Film Festival over the weekend. The film took out a huge haul of 7 awards in total. It was a pleasure to work on audio post-production for the film. Big congratulations to Georgina, Robb and the rest of … Read more Past Imperfect takes out Best Film at Canberra Short Film Festival
Designing Sci-fi Weapon Sound Effects
A Sound Effect have posted up a fairly comprehensive post about sci-fi weapon sound effect design. Check it out at: http://www.asoundeffect.com/supreme-scifi-weapon-sound-effects/
Tom Roberts Exhibition at NGA
This summer’s blockbuster at the National Gallery of Australia features the art of Australian artist Tom Roberts, who is responsible for some iconic paintings. I was fortunate enough to be asked to help with some audio post for a TVC and video promoting the exhibition. You can check out one of the videos and find … Read more Tom Roberts Exhibition at NGA
Pro Tools 130 and 201 courses at CIT soon
Canberra Institute of Technology is running Pro Tools 130 Game Audio and 201 level production training in the coming weeks. It is very rare that this training is offered in Australia so is potentially a good opportunity for professional Pro Tools users. The workshops are run over 3 days at the Woden campus in Canberra: … Read more Pro Tools 130 and 201 courses at CIT soon
Bang-On Retro Drums
AudioTechnology magazine has a feature in their latest issue which covers recording and mixing of retro drum kit styles covering the 50’s through to 70’s. It’s a pretty cool resource: http://www.audiotechnology.com.au/wp/index.php/how-to-bang-on-retro-drums/