The Stage 32 Videos: Sound Design

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2653523/See more at: http://www.strawberrysoundstudios.com/#/jacob-proctor/Sound Designer, Foley Artist, Film Mixer, STORY TELLER.

Hello Stage 32 community! I had to make a "sound design only" quick reel for a potential opportunity, but it was so much fun to work on these 2 films. I truly love the creative process of sound design. Horror comes naturally to me, because I've been watching horror for over 30 years. When VCR's first started entering more homes, my dad picked up a couple of movies on VHS at the local gas station, and one was A Nightmare on Elm Street, the other one was called The Slayer (1982). This film at the start shows that you can make any object an ominous subject, even a sewing machine. When she is running through the forest, you can still faintly hear the sewing machine churning away. I wanted to make it sound distant, and abstract, existing in a different realm. What I did was I used a machine sound like you would hear in a factory smashing down. I pitched shifted it down, slowed it down a bit, rolled off the high frequencies, and sent reverb to the track.

Working with Hyperrealism truly opens the doors to different creative dimensions. This short clip starts with normal Foley of garage door latches closing, then a massive slam of the needle placement of the sewing machine telling us we have crossed back over to another world.
The pulling of the string is actually abstract scrapes from a cello. I had my composer, who collaborated with me, create multiple takes of abstract/experimental sounds on the cello, and this actually worked out perfectly for this scene.
As the sewing machine mashes on, it ends with a nice impact with a long reverb tail that fades. The credit rolls as this churning mechanical sound seems to be rolling the credits on its own.

An old track reworked... © 2021 - music composed by Fred Coince https://fcoince.wixsite.com/drawdraw Videos by Yaroslav Shuraev from pexels.com Music Links : On Bandcamp : https://fredc...

Sound design reel with work from 2020/2021.

A collection of my favorite sound design and mix work from over the years. W. Alex Reeves - Supervising Sound Editor and Re-recording Mixer Selections from: "CertMaster: Level Up" (Dir: Lex Halaby, Doomsday Entertainment) "Sam Did It" (Dir: Dom Burgess) "Taco Bell: Taco Tales" (Dir: Jarod Shannon, Madison & Vine) "Bill and Jeannie" (Dir: Alex Cline) "Mobile Strike" (Dir: Corridor Digital) "Star Vs The Forces of Evil" (Dir: Sarah Ullman, Disney XD) "Love, Work, And Other Demons" (Dir: Gorby Shih) Cut Chemist - "Rhythm Method" (Dir: Adam Wheeler) Childish Gambino - "Telegraph Ave" (Dir: Hiro Murai, Doomsday Entertainment) "Will 'The Machine'" (Dir: Kent Lamm) "Skyhook" (Dir: Matt Arnold & Des Dolly, RocketJump Studios) "Tom Clancy's The Division (Dir: Corridor Digital, Ubisoft) (Sound editors: Kevin Senzaki, Eric Marks) "The Automaton" (Dir: W. Alex Reeves, Wire Tree / I'm The Villian Films) (Sound designer: Kevin Senzaki) Childish Gambino - "Sober" (Dir: Hiro Murai, Doomsday Entertainment)

I've been very lucky to take part in many great film projects over the years. So I thought I'd put up a montage of various clips of all of the live action pr...

Another Facebook Live network bumper, this piece was an intro to a science fiction trivia segment. 3D motion graphics created in After Effects, Sound Design developed and produced with Reason.

Network Bumper for a Facebook Live network, created in After Effects and Premiere Pro