New Media by Ryan Adlaf
Much like my trip to the Nez Perce reservation in Idaho, Black Dollar Productions was hired by the Autry National Center to handle audio on a film shoot in Second Mesa on the Hopi reservation in Arizona.
The majority of our filming took place in a corn field where the Hopi have dry farmed corn for hundreds of years. We filmed an elder telling his niece about the Kachinas and how they watch over the Hopi people.
Hopi is beautiful place, somewhere everyone should visit and learn about
Black Dollar Productions was hired by Image Line Productions to handle the voice-over duties for Shell’s promo video for the 2009 Eco-Marathon.
The Eco-Marathon is an international competition between university student teams each attempting to build the most fuel efficient vehicle.
Here is a sample:
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From the Shell Eco-Marathon site:
- challenges students around the world to design, build, and test vehicles that travel further using less energy.
- is an educational platform that encourages innovation, reinforces conservation and fosters the development of leading technology for greater energy efficiency.
- is a global forum for current and future leaders who are passionate about finding sustainable solutions to the world’s energy challenge.
- is a visible demonstration of Shell’s deep commitment to face head-on the growing demand for energy worldwide in a responsible way. It is an invitation to others to do the same.
I’ve started working with BWN in LA as a freelance sound designer and composer.
Check out their site, they’ve got a great reel and a really talented group of in-house composers. I’ve already learned a lot about delivering great sounding queues on a deadline.
So far I’ve been close mic’ing cymbals, brushing up on my Logic 8 skills, and getting used to the Native Instruments Komplete collection – Battery, where have you been all my life.
How did composers pound out 30 sound-a-like queues before Logic?