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Simon Norman CV available for download HERE
Hi and welcome to the online portfolio for Simon Norman (www.simonnorman.com) Bellow you will find various media players presenting music & video examples of my work, from basic sound editing, to score work, directing & animation. at the bottom of the page you will also find a messege section so you can imediatly get in contact. Current version 09/07/10 (Sound Editing + Design Video added, music added) please explore the rest of the website & enjoy all the music & videos thanks for visiting simon norman |
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First up, found in the music player directly above this text, I'd like to present a playlist of different peices of music produced & written by myself, that have been used in various media works. Some of the tracks were externally chosen for use, others were speficially written for media works as original score. please scroll to the bottom of teh playlist for the latest peices. Have a brouse & enjoy. |
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Hand Island - Episode 4: Prison Break...Out from Ash Parker on Vimeo For Hand Island Episode 4, (directed by Ash Parker & Written by Alex Robinson) I was responsible for 80% of the location recording & boom operation, along with my assistant Jake Almond. All post production ADR, foley, sound design, editing & mixing was done by myself at my REDroom Facility in Nuendo 4.3. I also wrote & produced all the score from the tittle sequence starting at 02:45 to the end (the opening "prision Break" score was wretten & produced by Jake Almond).
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Hand Island - Episode 3 - ...and Fisted from Ash Parker on Vimeo Hand Island Episode Three. My roles on this episode were pretty extensive audio wise. I was the primary recordist & boom operator on set (with Jake Almond as my assistant). all music was supervised by me, along with edits in the post phase. 7 peices of the score & soundtrack were either produced by myself, and also written. all sound editing was done by myself with extensive sound design generated for this particular episode (racing car instrumentation, toy car, sick, foley for sections of unusable audio in the woods, reverb and atosphere matching, with a few segments of ADR). lastly I mixed the episode down to a stereo format. |
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Hand Island- Episode 2- Fingered from Ash Parker on Vimeo. Lead sound recordist & boom operator during filming (jake almond 2nd). I Provided a peice music for the episode (Map Music 5, found in the player above), produced the percussion swells, along with overall music supervision. My main roles on hand island Episode Two were Sound design, post dialogue foley (a few scenes required additional recordings & sync work), sound editing & final stereo mixdown.
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Hand Island Episode 1- F%*cked HD from Ash Parker on Vimeo. Hand Island Episode One. during the production of hand island Episode one, I was the Lead sound recordist and boom operator, taking care of all on set sound dutys (with jake almond as my 2nd boom operator). Once the episode was in post production, my dutys then shifted over to Music supvisor & lead score writer (along with jake almond), I wrote and produced 10 peices of music that feautred in the episode (all can be heard in the music player above). I also did the complete sound edit, all sound design for the show, & finally mixed the episode down to stereo ready for video sync & final release. |
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Stoltz - Dance Planes Featurette. A track from the Featurette performences of stoltz. Recorded and shot in a television studio in falmouth, the project was directed by Ash Parker with the multi camera footage edited by myself within Vegas. Pop over to the Featurette page of the stoltz.co.uk site for five other performences from this session.
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 The Online flash game "Comazone" features sound design & score by by myself. The game was developed by Oli Harris for Maniaxmedia. Please click on the games banner above to play.
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"364 Days Later" is a short comedy peice, written, produced, filmed, edited, scored & completed within a 48 hour period, for the 48 hour film project competition. My role was on set boom operator & recordist, sound designer, sound editor, mix engineer, & writer of the complete score. as stated all these roles were taken on & completed within 48 hours.
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Switcher - 9INES Series. was a special set of four studio performence recorded in my REDroom studio. they feature tracks played LIVE by myself and jake almond, with accompanying VJ visuals by Ash Parker. The Performence is captured through my unique "9INES" technique, utilizing 10 cameras and a VJ stream. All this footage is then sync'd to an audio recording of the performence, & then positioned into 9 segments placed over the screen. the effect is stunning & technically excellent. The project was produced, directed and edited by myself, with recordings made in Nuendo & the video editing done within Vegas. Please pop along to the 9INES Series page & enjoy the rest of the performences.
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Teaser Trailer for Episodes 4, 5, & 6 of Hand Island. I Edited the video & created the tittle graphic sequence at the end. Additional Footage was shot for the intro static and also macro's of the inside of a video machine. All sound scape Design & score for the trailer was written & produced by myself. The Trailer was done in homeage to the original 1979 trailer for Alien
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As an ongoing follow on project for hand island, each episode has a no. of audio commentrys recorded featuring director, writters, cast and crew. As lead sound engineer for the series I direct and produce these audio commentrys. In the player above you will find the the sound & score commentry featuring myself, (location recorist, lead boom operator, music supervisor, score writer, sound designer & sound editor for the episode), jake almond (boom operator, score writer) and james witcomb (assistant boom & series producer). The audio commentry was recorded in my REDroom studio suite, using 3 capacitor mics through 3 focusrite preamp channels, recorded into Nuendo & mixed. The vocals are paned accross the stereo feild with side chain compression applied to the program material, ducking the sound of the episode up & down around the overlayed commentry.
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Warder, the Music video. This is a promotional video produced to launch the stoltz website and also gain air play (as promos do). The Video was written by myself and Alastair Ferran (Ferran Films), Directed by myself, Camera operated by Ash Parker, and Edited by Edward Howard (Visual Carnival). The Colour Effect was attained by working through the bulk of the video & applying vector paint to each frame, generating 2 layers of video which could then have different colour grading processing applied. The music track was written and produced by myself with co-production by Jake Almond.
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The Date. For this indipendent film, I wote & produced the original score (with 2 tracks used courtesy of jake almond) sound designed the feature, & also did the complete post production sound edit and stereo mix. Written & directed by alex shaida. Edited by Edward Howard
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Here we have an Animation "Dont Take No Shit" from my Soap Art series. The peice was created using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, & Sony Vegas. The source material was drawn by hand on paper & scanned into photoshop, edited & cut up into individual layers. The peice was then imported into Affter Effects, with each seperate eliment animated using variable key frames on the composite parts. Finally the peice was brought into Sony Vegas for final grading & speed adjustment. The music is also a peice I wrote. Performed on the VSTi Pianoteq, & produced in Steinberg Nuendo. |
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The End Of The Pier Show, a short made as a festival showcase. I was responsible for the location sound (stereo feild recordings using portable Zoom H4 recorder, & Lavalier microphones on the actors). Post production sound designer & editor. applying foley on various eliments from water, the beach, feet slaping on the gound & any noticable sound omiting from body language from the actors.
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The is a small peice of Sound design & score work for the Ferran Films introduction animation sequence.
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Stoltz - Underfrone Live. Performed at the Ryhthm Factory in london, along with resident Stoltz VJ visuals by Ash Parker. For more Live performence videos in various venues, please check out the Live page on the main stoltz.co.uk site.
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Simon Norman C.V
19 Farm Close, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG42 1SD MOBILE 07731451026 E_MAIL syantz@hotmail.com WEBSITE www.stoltz.co.uk PORTFOLIO AVALIBLE AT www.simonnorman.com OBJECTIVE
Over the last 9 years, I have plied my knowledge and training in sound technology and music performance over many areas, to which I have gained a wealth of experience and multiple skill sets in writing, producing, engineering and recording music and audio for a very wide range of media applications. Combined with a long standing enthusiasm for computer games, films, music and a steadfast hard working ethic, I feel a position in a media production environment as a sound engineer, music producer, sound editor, mixer, writer and location recordist, is a creatively challenging and technically rewarding career path. SKILL SETS • Music and video software including: Steinberg Nuendo/Cubase, Digidesign Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Izotope RX Advanced, Audition, Sony Vegas, Melodyne, Synth Edit, Final Cut, Photoshop, Arkaos, After Effects, many different VST/VSTi/AS/RTAS/DX/REWIRE instrument and effects plugins. • Extensive knowledge and experience with synthesis and sampling programming, both hardware, software and a combination of the two. • Midi, SysEx and Midi controllers, including thorough use of hardware midi sequencers, control surfaces, keyboards, and in depth programming to integrate all of the above with everything from global midi sync, to optimised custom control of software and hardware for specific performance and task needs. • Hardware and software routing (and to a greater extent, the combination of analogue and digital content) with technical knowledge and working experience of audio signal patching in both the digital and analogue domains. • Highly competent in breaking down and creating different music and sound production techniques, compositions and arrangements. • Music and sound Editing for everything from radio edits of songs, sounds for film and sound FX for games. • Effective mixing and post production mastering including effective & creative use of dynamics, EQ, automation and effects processing at the recording, mix down, mastering and PA stages. • Experienced sound recordordist, both on location and within a studio environment (multi tracking, on set and on location boom work, live recording) using various microphones & techniques (Radio Lavalier, Condenser, electret, dynamic, speakers, all in different pickup patterns) and recording devices from computers, soundcards, hardware multitrackers, portable stereo and 4-track recorders, onboard camera inputs, master formats like stereo Reel to Reel, minidisk, cassette, HiFi VHS, DAT, HDD & solid state machines. • Lots of experience working with independent film, television, and corporate media makers, along with games designers in producing location audio, sound design, editing, scores and music supervision. • Long standing member of electronic act. Live electronic and acoustic performing musician – www.stoltz.co.uk • Live VJ, and rig technician, designing and building a VJ rig with multiple live camera feeds, stock video footage, custom graphics and dynamic integration with performance controllers (midi and audio). • PA and Live sound engineering, from MC announcing to live music mixing & amplification. • Experience in building custom equipment, live rig setups, studio furniture, acoustic design and treatment, microphone enclosures, studio facility specification and computer design and builds. • Run a private post production studio facility (the RED room). Media Works 1999 – Present: Stoltz – www.stoltz.co.uk • Writer • Producer • Engineer • Live performer • Rig and Studio Acoustic design • Graphic Artist • Music Video Director • Video Editor • Website Designer 2009: 364 Days later – 48 film festival. • Sound recordist and boom operator • Sound editor • Score writer & producer • The entire film was made from start to finish inside 48 hours, for me that ment working inside of a tight schedule to do all onset recording, sound designing, post production, and a complete score written from scratch to fit the on screen content. 2009: Day of the Not Quite Dead • Boom Operator 2010: The Hunter (Farren Films). • Post production sound editor • Sound designer • Final mix 2008 – Present: Hand Island, Web and TV Series - www.handisland.com • Chief Location Recordist and Boom Operator • Sound Designer • Music supervisor (writer and producer) • Sound Editor • Mix engineer • Foley recordist • Audio Commentary engineer/Producer 2008: Coda Music video • Head of Art Direction and set design • Post production Foley recordist and editor 2006 – 2008: Somebody to Someone • Providing backing percussion, synthesis and effects during live performances • Live multitrack Recordist • Post production mix down and mastering 2006: Visual Carnival Post Production House - www.visual-carnival.co.uk • Post production sound editor 2006: The Date, Independent Film • Music Supervisor • Writer and Producer of full Original Score • Post Production Sound Editor • Sound Designer • Mix Engineer Multiple score and sound design Credits for numerous independent and student films, small websites, and producer credits to unsigned artists. Employment 2007 – 2009: Hollywood Bowl, Bracknell. • Running the reception department of the bowling alley • Extensive customer service, time management of lane resources and liaising with on site tech staff • Art Director on promotional materials and alley Dressing 2006 – 2006: FAST ltd, Maidenhead. • Consultant in software development for program installation mapping and license alignment. • Pressure testing beta program development and the collection of software installation information for database archiving. 1999 – 2004: UCI Cinemas, Bracknell. • Projectionist • Ticket Sales Education 2002 – 2004: HND Music Technology, Reading College 2000 – 2002: ND Music Technology, Reading College 1997 – 2000: GNVQ Advanced Media Communications and Production, Bracknell and Wokingham College Interests Playing Computer Games. Art and animation. Training and watching Mixed Martial Arts. Watching Films. Music Video Artist and writing small independent films. Full Portfolio available online at www.simonnorman.com References available on request. |
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