Log: January 13, 2010 – it’s finally time. The last leg of the journey. The Burning Palms premiere is hours away and I’m up in the projection booth with the engineer checking the 6 track digital tape. Peering down from the booth at one of Arclight’s Hollywood theaters, the first images of Burning Palms appear [...]

It was for one of the Polish Brothers’ magical movies, Northfork. The film takes place in rural Montana. The weathered old homes captured on film during the production seemed to me important sonic characters in the film’s soundtrack. But how to make those sounds feel legit in post-production? Well, I took my field recording gear [...]

As production dialogue and ADR Supervisor for Jackie Chan and Jet Li’s Forbidden Kingdom, I traveled all over the world’s largest continent pursuing actors for their ADR lines so we could complete the film. My asssignment took me to film facilities in exotic locales such as Shanghai, Hong Kong and Kobe and Osaka, Japan. At [...]

It was when the wave of Friday 13th and Nightmare On Elm Street pictures were all the rage…