HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM SQUAWK PRODUCTIONS AND JUNIOR BIRDMAN AUDIO!

October 29, 2019 / Mike Hallenbeck

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! I teamed up with the good people at Squawk Productions to create this spooktacular greeting, dedicated to all you creatives out there who feel the pressure of… The Deadline. Custom music, sound edit, mix, and even voiceover performance (as well as the voices of the laughing ghouls, and the hissing snake) by Mike Hallenbeck at Junior Birdman Audio.

“Deadline” was born when I had lunch with animator Sam Thompson (half of Squawk) who I’d recently collaborated with on a project, but never met. The conversation turned to our common love of horror movies, and we decided it’d be fun to work together on something spooky sometime. We decided to do a Halloween-themed greeting aimed at our fellow creatives. Sam thought it’d be fun to equate the pressure of work-related anxiety with the scariness of Halloween, and “Deadline” was born.

Enjoy!

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"CLEAN CUT" ON DUST

October 25, 2019 / Mike Hallenbeck

The little rogue Roomba just keeps on chuggin’! The comedy-horror short “Clean Cut”, directed by Andrew Hunt, featuring my sound design and original music as well as the work of a bunch of other cool kids like Ben Enke, Josh Stifter and Jeremy Wanek, is now available on DUST.

And what, one could be forgiven for asking, is DUST? Well, “DUST,” quoth DUST, “is the first multi-platform destination for binge watchable sci-fi. We feature science fiction short films and other content from emerging filmmakers with stunning visual effects, captivating plots and complex character explorations. Robots, aliens, space exploration, technology, and human experience are all a part of DUST.” So that’s what DUST is. OK?

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SOVIET SLEEP EXPERIMENT: AUDIO POST ASSIST, FEATURE FILM

October 16, 2019 / Mike Hallenbeck

Recently I’ve been assisting with audio post on the feature film “The Soviet Sleep Experiment”. Directed by Barry Andersson, and featuring an ensemble cast that includes Chris Kattan, the film premieres this Friday 10/18, 5:10 PM at Twin Cities Film Festival. I engineered and edited some of the ADR, as well as filling in some Foley, sound effects editing, and atmospheric ambience for mixer Jonathan Siri Mohs. From the spreadsheet of requests from the dialog editor, I noticed that a lot of screaming and other loud/ harsh vocalizations were needed. So I set up a more easily “punished” dynamic mic in the booth alongside the usual boom, so I could flip back and forth between them as needed. Turned out to be a good plan. Looking forward to hearing how it all worked out in the mix.

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