Philosophy

As a graduate of The New England School of Communications, I have learned and immersed myself in the world of Audio Post Production. For me, each project represents a reflection of myself. At least once it's done. All the work I do reflects who I am, how skillful I can be making something people won't ever forget, and shows my ability to put passion into any job. 

What I find most important is flexibility and the ability to work well in a group project. I've faced issues concerning bad recordings, scheduling issues, and individuals who needed help. Being there for teammates who are struggling is crucial to how I work. If someone is missing a file, or forgot how something works, I'm there. It's one thing to sit in a watch their progress, but it's another to work with them and help when needed to better their skills overall and make for a good team relationship. 

For solo projects, scheduling everything a week in advance gives me ample time to prepare for location recording, getting permissions to setup in certain areas, and inform anyone else who may get involved. Once the time comes to start, it's all about recording techniques. Depending on what is being done, I may have multiple lavalieres for people, a stereo XY pattern setup in the corner for natural room tone, a close mic, and a floor mic (for foley). Having all those different angles of recording makes for no bad production audio and no need for ADR if I can ace it on the first attempt. 

Some of the work I've done so far includes working on The Nite Show with Danny Cashman. This is a live to tape talk show hosted by Danny Cashman at the Gracie Theatre which is located on the Husson University campus. This show is put on by a full student crew with a professor supervisor ranging from sophomores to seniors. The work load would be divided up between the crew and each person would have their individual tasks. This show would take an entire day to setup for and record as Danny would make three episodes to be aired for each upcoming Saturday every month. As a fun fact, Jannet Mills was a featured guest multiple times on the show including the 500th episode, in which I was the Front of House mixer. I have worked the Front Of House position, the Monitor World position, the Broadcast to Television position and as general crew.

Another area I have some experience in is production sound. During my sophemore and Junior college year, I was the host of the audio section and the one responsible for production sound for a podcast called The Overtly Critical Film show where four of us each watched a random movie and reviewed it. So not only was I setting up the recorder and microphones, but I was also taking time to review movies focusing on the sound alone, and talking about why it worked, how I liked it, cool facts I found about it online, and how it was possibly made. This podcast had nothing to do with any class as it was just done for fun and for learning, each recording session was about three hours total of work each Sunday.