I just watched, or should I say re-re-re-rewatched Alfred Hitchcocks film The Birds and while it will never quite disturb my senses the way it did the first time it still is a sharp reminder of the power of memory…
crashing cars for a living
What to do with an old car that still goes, but the idea of it actually passing a warrant of fitness is less likely than discovering a perpetual motion engine in a junk store in Westport? I believe one of…
BLACK SHEEP FX Recording 4
Aside from vegetables we also did a wood FX recording and some cloth ripping FX. We managed to find an old chest of drawers at the junkstore for $10, plus a selection of various blankets, towells, sheets etc for tearing…
BLACK SHEEP FX Recording 3
Ever since doing Worlds Fastest Indian I really enjoy recording vehicle sound effects and Black Sheep had two main vehicles we needed to augment – a good old Landrover and a classic Morris 1300… Luckily we got access to them…
BLACK SHEEP TRAILER ONLINE
The trailer for black comedy/horror film BLACK SHEEP, which we did the sound design for June/July/August 2006 is on their website now, or heres a direct link to the quicktime movie.
my remote studio
While on holiday in Takaka I set up a temporary music studio without having to consider one of those no credit check loans to pay or it, much thanks to Gaylene Preston who loaned me her cottage & woolshed… its…
happy new year!
I finished 2006 by going on a road trip around the South Island of New Zealand. The main destination in the far south was Fiordland, quite probably the most remote spot in the whole country! I went on a boat…
Mixing a film (part 3)
Oh my god, i still dont quite believe it, but we have finished mixing! After what feels like an eternity spent in a dark occasionally LOUD room (& was probably actually 4 weeks) we have final mixed all the reels!…