Cafe Con Leche

https://vimeo.com/135438364 Cafe Con Leche is a film I dialog edited, Foleyed, and sound designed directed by Ray Gallardo about the Mexican Cartel and the DA who is trying to arrest them. It was a really fun job to work on because it really built my chops with cutting fight scenes and preforming Foley. I learned a lot about the use of cloth to make a scene feel more alive and give the actors a more human feel. Every punch, hit or body fall was accompanied by the cloth and some sort of air movement that makes it scene more cinamatic and "Real" even though it is not how it would sound if someone got punched in reality.

iGirlfriend

[vimeo 114510484 w=500 h=281]iGirlfriend is a feature film Directed by Scott Coones. I Dialog Edited, Sound designed, and Recorded Foley in conjunction with Tony Crowe of Crowe Audio.  

This film was a Weird Science style film that included a lot of computer interfaces that needed sound design. Tony and I had fun with this project spending countless hours meticulously going through each scene smoothing the dialog, placing sounds for all of the movements, and making creative decisions to make the film feel as lifelike as possible.

The Gospel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_nheLU7Ztw The Gospel is a social commentary short film that I did the sound for, from production to post. In this film I got to dive into the emotions of the characters by playing with breathing and reverbs. The slow motion scenes in the film allowed for fun environment to experiment with different sound design techniques.

Menlo House

https://vimeo.com/145600390 Menlo House is a creative Horror-esque short directed by Corsica Wilson and Juliana Morgan. I was given a blank slate for audio and recreated all of the sound. All of the Dialog was ADR recorded in my Los Angeles apartment to make it feel as if it was recorded on set. Finding sounds for all of the different happenings in the film made for some fun creation and manipulation of effects to make viewers feel in the moment.

28 Callbacks Later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2&v=51zz4gcnUY0&ab_channel=DrewCurtis 28 callbacks later is a short film directed by Drew Curtis. its just your basic Zombie film, with actors as the Zombies and Casting Agents as the survivors.

Wolf at the Door

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AIHL5EIKUg&ab_channel=cinelineproductions] "Wolf at the Door" is a short directed by Blair Cosby, that I did the location and post sound on. It gives the perspective of a young boy whose mother, a prostitute, puts him in the closet when her pimp comes over. The majority of the action happens on the other side of a closed door. Not only did I have the foley of what you saw on screen but had to give the illusion of what was not. This gave me the freedom to use the imagination of the viewers to paint a picture of the horrors that the mother was truly going through.

Le Spark

http://vimeo.com/93016466#at=0 As the fourth animation I have done with Winck Studios, I enjoyed figuring out how to create the sound of bugs. They are not as simple as you might think! Unlike working with humans, fireflies and crickets have a complex exoskeleton. We used many different things to emulate what they would be like. Surprisingly, for the purposes of the film, I used a lot of effects that are made to be used in horror films. The unexpected nature of this short made it especially fun to cut.

A Sound College Life

[vimeo 93079000 w=360 h=265] There are two things that are always present so much so that we tend to become numb and ignore them: time and sound. Time is the driving force behind everything we do. We have to make time to do things or arrive on time so that we are not fired. Sound is something that is all around us. Everything makes a sound, whether it is something as simple as a light breeze or as complex as the human voice we are dependent on. These are things that we only notice if something is off, otherwise they are just background noise.

As someone who works with sound, there are few things that I could claim ownership of. I usually have to wait for projects to come my way. As I approached graduation I wanted something that was mine to give. In a lot of ways this film was influenced by Diego Stocco and his short films showing his work as a sound designer in a different medium. This short was my adaptation to the style of film that he used.

Charged

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/63818845] Charged is a short animated film directed by Nathaniel Winckler about a young bee comes to the aid of his energetic friend in a time of crisis. On this I recorded and edited all of the sound effects in this film. On this film I was a writer, sound effects recordist, sound designer, Foley artist, and audio editor. I recorded every sound effect that was in this film.