Dan Goodwin's project log - Audio

My friend Edward has been doing audio and video mixes for a while now and they're brilliant. To celebrate the release of a new video mix called Watch With Edward, he organised a premiere screening at The Jericho Tavern in Oxford.

I helped him with the get in/out of the gear and did some warm up DJing for him too (the first time I'd DJed in public for years).

I was sound recordist for two days of shooting for a short drama called Sarah.

The short was directed by Victoria White who was building a showreel of pieces she had directed and/or produced.

The film was financed by the OFVM production award.

I attended a Creative VJing course at Oxford Film and Video Makers. The course was a great way to get an introduction to the kit, software and techniques involved with live video mixing. The course was tutored by Ed Cookson from multimedia collective The Sancho Plan. Over two days the attendees worked on putting together a 3 minute live piece which we performed at the end of the course.

The course was informative, fun, pretty hectic and highly recommended.

Live sound operation for four performances of The Wizard Of Oz at the Theatre Royal, Winchester for the Claire Goodwin Theatre Arts School (yes, that's my mum!).

I drove a sound desk mixing the soundtrack, sound effects and 8 radio mics for live vocals.

My sister is a partner in a theatrical production company called D&L Associates. Over the past few months, the company has been performing a selection of West End and Broadway musical numbers in a show called (wait for it) West End and Broadway. The production has been touring regional theatres and I have filled the sound operation role for it in the most recent three shows in Winchester, Cannock and Brentwood.

This involved me driving an audio desk mixing the music with multiple radio mics worn by the performers. At Winchester and Brentwood, the music was pre-recorded, at Cannock it was performed by a live band which had to be mixed too.