For several years I’ve been mentored in my audio work by Dr Neil Hillman. Over these past months since I’ve been made redundant, Neil has acted as my business coach and we’ve begun working on projects together. One of these is a podcast on the use of sound in motion picture and television production. Neal has decades of experience in the industry and a Rolodex full of contacts to draw from. We’ve had many thoughtful discussions ourselves over Zoom so I suggested we basically start recording these and invite others to join in the conversation.
We’ve published our first episode and have recorded our second one just today with a number of others in the works. I’ve produced podcasts for nearly a decade and Neil has hundreds of film credits to his name but this is new territory for both of us to be ‘on mic’ as the hosts of a show (so we’ll probably need some time to get into the groove).
You can have a listen to the first episode in the embedded player above; we are in the process of publishing it on all the main podcast apps as well so you’ll soon be able to subscribe for future episodes (it’s on Spotify already if you click on the ‘follow’ button in the player). This episode is with two filmmakers discussing how they made a feature length film on a shoestring budget and the difficulties they had with sound production on location and in post-production.
Just a warning though it’s got—quite a lot of swearing (not from Neil or myself) but it’s a candid conversation. Episode two is sans swears if you want to hold off for that one next week sometime. (We are aiming to release two episodes a month but want to get a few out here at the beginning to prime the pump.)
