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David Mitchell’s Soapbox sound design

I created and mixed the soundtrack for the Stag Nights episode of David Mitchell’s Soapbox using a combination of Adobe Audition and Apple’s Soundtrack Pro. Samples were sourced from Audio Network.

I needed to photograph an image of this stained glass installation which was to be used for a Christmas card. The three panels are backlit by three vertical fluorescent tubes and covered by a protective plastic screen. I found I couldn’t get a decent shot of it despite trying a range of lenses and settings. The fluorescent tubes were prominently visible in the shots, and the more richly coloured segments let through far less light than the brighter ones, and looked dull.

To compensate, I mounted a Nikon D5000 with a Nikkor 50mm 1.8 on a tripod, and took three RAW shots bracketed 1EV apart. I combined the images in Photoshop CS5 using Automate > Merge to HDR Pro and spent some time tweaking the plugin’s settings to create an image which gave a more equal prominence to the colours, while reducing the highlighting caused by the flouro tubes. I used Photoshop’s Lens Correction filter to remove some slight barreling at the edges, and Curves to tweak the overall contrast.

Time Lapse

Timelapse long-exposure experiments with a Canon 550D and After Effects.

Rhesus – The Chase

Music Video for The Chase by Rhesus. I directed, shot (EX3), edited (FCP7), and mo-graphed (After Effects), with Lee Skelly on lighting and grip. Produced by Jamie & Remy for ChannelFlip.

Harry Hill’s Little Internet Show sound mix

ChannelFlip asked me to work on the sound mix for their Harry Hill show. This was largely a repair job as the sound had been recorded badly. I removed, or at least minimmised wind noise, peaking distortion, hiss, rumble and unwanted microphonics – Harry was wearing a clip-on mic while rolling on the floor fighting his ‘nephew’ in one episode. Embedding is disabled on the episodes on Youtube, so here’s a link to the channel.

Channel Flip ident

Following a rebrand, the guys at Channel Flip asked me to create a new animated ident. Here it is in action at the end of an episode of the excitingly popular David Mitchell’s Soapbox, which this week is in 3D! You’ll need to find some red/blue glasses, or make some out of some Quality Street wrappers.

New Light Stir trailer

Here’s the final trailer for New Light Stir. We’re not planning to upload the full film for a while as we’re submitting it to festivals, who are much less likely to screen your film if it’s already in the public domain. Meanwhile, we hope this gets you feeling curious.