Michelle Child – Sound Design/ Sound Editing
It has been a long time since my last post. It's like going to the dentist. The longer you leave it, the harder and scarier it is to go back. The main reason for my long silence is simply too much work. Our work/life balance has been incredibly unbalanced for the last few years. Which... Continue Reading →
It has been 2 weeks since we returned from out adventure to Europe and I'm finally back in the swing of sound editing. Just to recap. We were in Europe for a month and a half. Two weeks in the UK, two weeks in Ibiza, three days in Barcelona and then three weeks in... Continue Reading →
Oscar season is an exciting time in the film industry. This year things are more exciting than usual for Dave and I. Arrival, the wonderful film we worked on last year is up for a number of awards, including best sound editing! We were incredibly grateful to be involved with this fantastic... Continue Reading →
It's been a while, so I feel like it's time for an update. I've been working on a game this year, which has been a nice change from working on films. Though I've done a few short projects as well because it's nice to mix it up. Unlike films, games are totally non-linear. Well, at... Continue Reading →
It has been over two months since our January record mission and I am now in the studio, editing the sounds. Actually, I've been editing them for the last two months...in between other bits and pieces of work. When we were recording, we always kept the Schoeps MS rig on the first 2 tracks of... Continue Reading →
Well OK, so after staying up till 2 recording pine, we then slept in a tent, despite having an entire 12 person lodge to ourselves. Why you ask? Well, we bought the tent a year ago and still hadn't used it, so I was determined to spend one night in the wild. Also, being the... Continue Reading →
Record mission day 6, wow, it's nearly been a week already. We visited a DOC site,(Department of Conservation), and got ourselves a good tip on where the best place to record Kokako is nearby, Mapara it is. Kokakos are one of NZ's rarest birds with one of the most beautiful songs ever... So off we... Continue Reading →
OK, Day 5 of record mission...epic coffee. I'll hand it to the Tron, they know their coffee. Bellies full and happy, we set off with our gear up mount Pirongia. This is where the mission gets serious. Previously we had been driving to locations and setting up our rig out of the back of the... Continue Reading →
Day 4 of our January record mission. All is going well so far. Up at dawn and on the road again, (after coffee and breakfast of course...a soundie needs coffee to keep their ears sharp like a fox!) We were travelling pretty steadildy most of the day, on our way to see Dave's good friend,... Continue Reading →
Day three of the January record mission and oh what a day! Before we left Turangi, we stopped in at Tokaanu wharf at the edge of Lake Taupo. We had seen hundreds of swans on the lake the night before and thought, sweet, we'll come back at dawn with a loaf of bread and get... Continue Reading →
Shell Sounds 