I’m in love with this film, the music and all the work put into it to make it come to life, I’m glad Russ Hughes was able to set this up for us, Mr. Hayes’ work is very inspiring and he deserves all the recognition he’s been getting for it. It’s nice to see even actors like Anne Hathaway giving her respect to his work and hoping he wins an Oscar.

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Simon Hayes & Audio Team

I’m a terrible blogger I’m sorry, but I found something worth posting about. Here’s a couple of videos I’ve put together and a trailer for the first short film I had opportunity to do some sound editing and mixing on.

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“Shortcuts” is an exercise organized by my film school where we shoot 25 dramas each 90 seconds long with a large crew under the guidance of industry professionals. I was lucky enough to get to know and work with one of New Zealand’s best production mixers Mike Westgate along with his apprentice and previous graduate Ande Schurr. I gained a little bit more knowledge on the technical side of things but more importantly, how to respectfully converse with other head of departments to get the job done properly and dealing with compromises on sound to keep the shoot running smoothly. Not to mention I’m going to copy Mr. Westgate and feed an output to my H4n next time so I can capture and make use of any useable production FX to add to my library, I usually record stuff during any downtime I get which is how I captured these recordings off the 6 shooting at these locations:

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No fancy pictures for this one, but here are few sounds from Auckland and one that I’d never thought I’d enjoy listening back to again.

St Mary’s Catholic Church:
http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=13054

Bungy Rocket Shoot, Beside The Skytower:
http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=13433

Dubai Metro, Arriving at Khalid Bin Al Waleed Station:
http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=13612

The Last Quiet Places w/ Gordon Hempton

(via Sonic Terrain) I’m so glad I took the time to listen to this whole 51 min podcast, it’s very “Ear Opening”.

Originally recorded at 96k/24bit.

Here are just 20 sounds I recorded at home in Dubai, UAE their not too fancy so I don’t mind giving them away for free if they can be of use to anyone. I downsampled them to 44k/24, if you want some more random sounds at different sample rates check out my page on freesound.org or just look for something else posted by other users.

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