“The Double”
Hello all, I am unavailable until the end of July now as I am working on Richard Ayode’s The Double. It looks to be an exciting comedy to work on.
Thanks
Lee
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A short clip has appeared on Vimeo from the producer of a short I worked on last year, this is that clip, http://vimeo.com/29835179
It is currently in for lots of film festivals and getting nominated…so thats nice!
Cheers
Lee
The Parachute Ball Trailer
Hello all,
This is a trailer for a short film I worked on in 2011 as boom op under the wonderful Nick Gillet. Its a 16mm WW2 period drama. Give it a watch! It has just won its first award at the Boston International Film Festival.
Thanks
Lee
I have just spent the last six weeks working on Spike Island on location in Manchester. A period drama set in 1990 around the Stone Roses gig at Spike Island, following five young lads from the red brick estates on their way to the show. I will post more about this over the next few days, but I have just landed back in 2012 and sleep is calling.
IPS + NFTS x BBC = Fun
I have just returned from the Annual Institute of Professional Sound training weekend at the National Film and TV School. The IPS board created a fantastic weekend, as much information as humans can absorb in 16 hours.
Saturday – Outside Broadcast/Live Sound. The majority of the course was delivered by Pete Bridges, the senior sound supervisor for the BBC in charge of all sound system design at the Olympics 2012.
Subjects covered – London 2012 overview of broadcasters and organisation. Comm’s, commentary chains, venue details and typical set-ups. An in-depth look into the international broadcast centre and its infrastructure. Circuit distribution and matrix systems.
Ian furness delivered a great lecture on the day to day running of sound staff during major sporting events and imparted his experiences to help with day to day working, from kit bag to security procedure topped off with the best piece of advice “You will be searched and prodded every step of the way, every day, keep your cool and stay smiling”
Sunday – Live Music production for broadcast
Tutors – Hugh Robjohns, Steve Richards, Rupert Flint, Mike Felton, Pete Freshny.
Subjects covered – Each Job role explored – Montor, FOH and Broadcast Engineer. Band Mic techniques, balance practice for FOH and mixing fast for live broadcast.
Technology – Splits, mixing desks (analogue and digital), wedges, line arrays, IEM and the importance of department co-op to create the cleanest feeds for all three departments.
Followed up by a day of hands on practical experience, mixing live Rock, Jazz and a 15 piece swing band! We even had a full BBC OB Sound truck to play with!
With Tutors who mix “Later with Jools” we had the best of the best. Learned so much.
Thank you to Simon Bishop, Richard Merrick, Ian Sands and the rest of the IPS who put this together for us. Outstanding.
BBC Radio 4 – In Search of the Tigers Roar
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01b9jny
In January 2011 I was part of a group of Wildlife Sound Recordists who travelled to Corbett National Park in Northern India with top wildlife sound expert Chris Watson and Wildeye the international wildlife film school. Chris took the recordings everyone made that week and has collated it into a program for Radio 4. It was without a doubt one of the best weeks of my life, wonderful people in the most beautiful forest on in the foothills of the Himalaya recording and photographing the world as it should be.
Photo copyright Maxine Lister
IPS Training weekend
In February I will be attending The Institute of Professional Sound annual training weekend at the National Film and TV School.
A two day course, the first day covering outside broadcast for Live sports events, specifically aimed at the Olympics later this year.
The second day is covering the recording of live music performance with live bands.
“Shameless”
I was very kindly invited for a day as a sound trainee on the latest series of Shameless being filmed by Company Pictures in Manchester. Spending the day with David Hall AMPS production sound mixer and his team was fantastic.
David uses the Zaxcom Deva II Recorder and has a very nice Schoeps SuperCmit rifle microphone, which with their expertise the team get great sound in quite a colourful noise environment!
Everyone was great, really nice working atmosphere and people were having fun. I was well looked after and learned a great deal from David, Johnny and Ryan. Thanks guys!
VHF Radio
I have just taken a marine radio course as part of my continuation of sea based work skills, next I am due to start my Yacht day skipper theory. Soon I will be sailing along the west coast of Scotland 
“In search of the Tigers Roar”
I Janurary 2011 I was on a Wildeye sound course with Chris Watson, the BBC Natural History units number one soundy in Northern India. A group of 15 sound recordists out in Corbitt National Park for 10 days of recording in the jungle. During this time Chris was recording for a BBC 4 radio doc which is due to be aired in early 2012, produced by Sarah Blunt of the NHU in Bristol. You will be able to hear a brief interview with my friend Alex and myself after we recorded the mating call of Pathera Tigris! I will update closer to the time.
