ADR and VO this month: Connie Nielsen and Dennis Haysbert

This month I had the pleasure of working with two great actors in the studio. Dennis Haysbert and Connie Nielsen. Dennis was recording VO for, of course, Allstate Insurance. Connie was recording ADR for her sinister character Lily in the series "The Following."

Battlefield 4 "Anthem" TV :60

In addition to the 20+ testimonial videos I have mixed for agency DraftFCB and their client EA, this masterpiece of order and chaos was mixed for television broadcast. This single minute of video battle glory took us almost two weeks of work, re-recording dialog, mixing and editing multiple versions of music, building sound design, and mastering the entire brew into a coherent spot. The challenges were obviously to keep the voice clear over all the chaos, and keep an artistic dynamic while adhering to broadcast limitations. The other issue with sound designing a video-game spot is that all the sound design elements must originate from the game (for legal reasons) so NO SFX library. Over a million views in less than a week! The game is highly anticipated by its fans, and the comments on YouTube are very enthusiastic...

ADR with John Leguizamo for new series on ABC

I had the pleasure of working with John Leguizamo today on the pilot episode for a new series on ABC. John is in San Francisco performing at our local Orpheum Theater. It looks like a funny show! And he is a great comedian. Read about the new show on the ABC All Access page, and a press release on Huffington Post.

Fruitvale ADR

I had the pleasure of working with first-time feature film director Ryan Coogler and his sound team from Skywalker Sound, recording all the dialog replacement for the upcoming release. The film is great, dramatic and very touching. There's no trailer or official webpage yet, but the press is all over this film. Here's Fruitvale's IMDB Page, and Facebook Page. UPDATE: Fruitvale swept everyone off their feet at Sundance Film Festival, and scored a $2.5 Million distribution deal with the Weinsteins! Very Exciting!

Jonathan Pryce for GI JOE: Retaliation

I had the pleasure of working with Jonathan Pryce on the next GI JOE movie. We were recording dialog replacement for the a scene near the end of the movie! It was very exciting. Non-disclosur-ifically exciting!

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

I had a great time recording the brilliant, young, talented Thomas Horn. Over a few days we recorded his entire voice-over for the film, and all the dialog replacement. Thomas lives in San Francisco, but we were connected via ISDN and SKYPE to the director in New York.