Hoard (TBA)

Emma-Jane Heaton (Director)

“Ross is a delight to work with on set and in post. He has been sound recordist for several of my shorts and came on as sound designer for my latest. He is both meticulous and creative in his approach and I can always trust that I will have great sound on my films.”

— Emma-Jane Heaton

Synopsis

The daughter of recently deceased parents returns to clear out her childhood home. There are more than bad memories waiting for her there.

Horror. 19 minutes.

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For Hoard I was responsible for the production audio, and providing sound design for specific elements in post-production.

A personal highlight in this project was working with actors Julia Bisby & Neil Sandland to develop methods for recording haunting ghostly voices, using contact microphones as well as a variety of boom and omnidirectional microphones. We work-shopped and recorded vocal improvisations on location, which I then worked into a variety of chilling vocal effects layers in the edit during post-production. This offers another example of the benefits I have experienced from the continuity of sound design work across production and post-production (of course with plenty of preparatory work in pre-production) — being able to explore and develop ideas on set with a specific mind towards post-production proved to be an invaluable creative approach for developing the ways in which the story of Hoard could be told through sound.

My role(s):

Production Sound Mixer & Additional Sound Designer

Period of my involvement:

January 2024 – July 2025

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