Chris Hind

Feverishly working on the sound and music for the Burqa doc as the final mix happens in less than 2 weeks. It’s going very well though and feel confident that there is lots of time and no need for any all-nighters.
I know that it’s been making the rounds on facebook but wanted to repost here as well. Great quote by Will Smith and it really sums up how I feel right now.
” If you’re absent during my struggle, Don’t expect to be present during my success. ”
Later

So this week I continue on with composing and sound designing the doc and put on a new hat as music producer. I’m currently arranging and building the bed tracks for a singer songwriter that we hope will result in some factor money. She has a great voice and some good musical ideas and the sound we are trying to achieve is portishead like.

First 4 reels of the doc are done and I’m trying to get it done by the end of february for the final mix at a local post house. Should get to the finish line on time.

Not much to tell in terms of news. The Burqa doc is moving along nicely and rough cuts that have been sent out are receiving a lot of encouraging comments. As the doc is based in the middle- east I thought it prudent to try and give it a middle-eastern/modern musical bent. I borrowed a friends oud and taught myself the basics and just mixed 4 songs that sound pretty good. So that will add a certain something to the film and I’m quite pleased with the results.
Year of the Dragon!!!

Crazy two weeks of voice overs for the Burqa doc but I think we have it all recorded and placed. Great time with the Director who is also the voice over artist and interesting to see which takes she thought worked best. Yesterday we did war scenes and I’m waiting for CSIS to show up at my door as there was a lot of Jihad inspired yelling and screaming filling up the neighborhood. And now I can finally get back to sound design and music. That’s about it career wise this week.
In other news, for those readers outside of Canada, we have been getting some crazy winter weather all across the country. -40 C in the west and even Vancouver has been below zero for a week.
See you next week.

2nd week of January and here I am blogging as promised. Just spent the weekend transferring files to my new computer and now I am ready to go. First up is the ” Burqa ” doc which needs to be sound designed asap. I need to alter the video files as they are gigantic and too cumbersome to tell with. Have I ever received the proper file format from a visual editor? No never! lol Oh well maybe someday.

I watched an interesting film last night called ” Carnival of lost souls “. Not a great film by any means but the score was interesting. Just a pipe organ but some really clever composing. Check it out – it’s quite old so perhaps a library would have a copy.

Until next time.