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EXPERIENCE — VIDEO EXAMPLES — AUDIO EXAMPLES

Offer­ing ser­vices in audio + video engi­neer­ing, post-production, live sound rein­force­ment, and mul­ti­me­dia project man­age­ment. Plat­form spe­cial­ties include Final Cut Pro, Adobe Cre­ative Suite, Pro Tools, and Able­ton Live.

EDUCATION

Art Insti­tute Of Seat­tle — Seat­tle, Wash­ing­ton
AS In Audio Pro­duc­tion with addi­tional focus in Dig­i­tal Video

Uni­ver­sity Of The Red­lands — Red­lands, Cal­i­for­nia
Course­work in Music Per­for­mance and Composition

EXPERIENCE

Type-F.com — 2012 (Contract)

Video Edi­tor

Sketchy Betches T.V. Pilot (release pend­ing) — 2012 (Pro Bono)

Video Edi­tor, Motion Graph­ics, Sound

His­to­ry­Mak­ers / Sci­ence­Mak­ers — 2011 (Con­tract)

Sci­ence­mak­ers, and their par­ent com­pany His­to­ry­mak­ers, is a Chicago-based non-profit com­mit­ted to pre­serv­ing, devel­op­ing, and pro­vid­ing access to an archival video col­lec­tion of African Amer­i­can his­to­ri­ans and scientists.

  • Oper­ated 1 of 3 Sony EX-3 cam­eras with direc­tor on headset
  • Assisted with stu­dent record­ings of sci­en­tist Q/A using FlipHD cameras
  • Edited and ren­dered footage for exhibition

EVEO, Inc. — 2010 (Con­tract)

EVEO, Inc. is a San Francisco-based com­pany spe­cial­iz­ing in e-marketing for health­care and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal companies.

  • Edited HD con­tent using FCP
  • Encoded for mul­ti­ple chan­nels includ­ing web and presentation
  • Pulled green screen keys and exe­cuted com­pos­ites w/ AE and FCP

TITAN Media / Hot­house Enter­tain­ment (2005 – 2009 / Con­tract)

Titan Media and Hot­house Enter­tain­ment are San Francisco-based pro­duc­tion com­pa­nies spe­cial­iz­ing in adult media con­tent. (Their web­sites are Not Safe For Work)

  • Edited HD, HDV, and SD con­tent for DVD, Blu-Ray, and web
  • Built DVDs, DVD menu cre­ation and scripting
  • Encoded, orga­nized, and deliv­ered media for stream­ing and download
  • Cre­ated orig­i­nal motion graph­ics, music and sound effects

Hardly Strictly Blue­grass Fes­ti­val (Once Yearly)

Hardly Strictly Blue­grass Fes­ti­val (HSBG) is an annual, 3 day music fes­ti­val in Golden Gate Park, San Fran­cisco. It cel­e­brated it’s 10th anniver­sary in 2010.

  • Man­aged the record­ing and mix­ing of HSBG fes­ti­val performances
  • Over­saw the acqui­si­tion of equip­ment and deploy­ment of record­ing crew
  • Mixed down multi-track Pro Tools ses­sions of live record­ings for CD
  • Mas­tered and sequenced for red-book standard

MEAC Orig­i­nals (2009 — Present, As needed)

MEAC Orig­i­nals is the record­ing stu­dio and pro­duc­tion com­pany of Boz Scaggs, musi­cian and record­ing artist.

  • Pro­vided on-stage tech­ni­cal sup­port, Pro Tools oper­a­tion, and mon­i­tor mixes
  • Mixed and pre-mastered multi-track record­ings of live and stu­dio material
  • Main­tain and repair gear, stu­dio equip­ment, and Pro Tools systems

VIDEO EXAMPLES

Tour Diary — Boz Scaggs Sum­mer 2011

I have the good for­tune of work­ing as an audio tech for Boz Scaggs and his band. I shot some footage over the last few weeks of tour, and made this lit­tle video.

Canon 60d + Nikon 35-135mm… mucho post in FCP and AE, includ­ing sub­stan­tial abuse of the Art Beats Film Clut­ter clips.

Music -> “Low­down” by Boz Scaggs

Time Lapse — The­atre at West­bury — Boz / Mike

This is a time lapse of the Boz Scaggs / Michael McDon­ald show, The­atre at West­bury, West­bury NY, July 23rd 2011.
I shot this using a Canon 60d and a Viv­i­tar Fish­eye lens. The Canon EOS Util­ity on my Mac­book acted as the intervolometer.

This the­ater is “in the round” : the stage spins dur­ing the show.

Includes doors, por­tions of both sets, and load-out.

Music : Sigur Ros — BaBa

4INSATIABLE.COM Inter­view

Inter­view with Dar­ius Falke and Max Schul­ter for TITAN Media, in which Dar­ius dis­cusses his cloth­ing line “4insatiable”. This is an alter­na­tive, clean edit of the inter­view, dif­fer­ent from what appears on the TITAN Media “Fol­som Under­cover” Blu-Ray.

Shot at TITAN Media stu­dios, San Fran­cisco, on a Pana­sonic HDX 900. Edited with Final Cut Pro.

Edit, Music, and Post : Jeremy Leaird-Koch
Direc­tor and Still Pho­tog­ra­pher : Brian Mills
Cam­era Oper­a­tor : Paul Wilde

Uploaded with per­mis­sion of TITAN Media
Copy­right TITAN Media, 2008

Bokeh

Exper­i­ment­ing with the Pho­to­jojo Bokeh kit.

Shot around San Fran­cisco with a Canon 60d and a Canon 50mm f/1.4 Lens.
Music : Stars — Set Your­self On Fire (End Times Edit)

Fear­ful Hunter 2 : Graphic Novel Trailer

A trailer I cre­ated for “Fear­ful Hunter : Part 2″, a Queer graphic novel with Druids and were­wolves by Jon Macy.

This was cre­ated using the com­pleted .psd files from the comic, manip­u­lated in FCP and After Effects.

Some mate­r­ial may be unsuit­able for children.

For more infor­ma­tion, please visit jonmacy.com.

C4D : TOKA Logo Experiment

A quick exper­i­ment I did manip­u­lat­ing a logo in Cin­ema 4D. These kind of logo stingers are a lot of fun to play around with.

Ani­ma­tion : C4D
Post : After Effects
Sound : Able­ton Live

More exam­ples avail­able on my Vimeo page

For extra infor­ma­tion regard­ing these projects, feel free to browse the Video sec­tion of this blog.

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AUDIO EXAMPLES

Please see the Music page of this blog or browse my Sound­cloud page.