BOB CHEFALAS HAS HAD A SMASHING YEAR WORKING ON TOP NOTCH SHOWS!
NBC will be premiering their new show Smash on Monday, February 6 th at 10pm. Created and Exec Produced by Theresa Rebeck (who currently has a play on Broadway), the show spotlights the process of mounting a musical, in this case about Marilyn Monroe. With the amazing cast of Debra Messing, Will Chase, Angelica Houston, Megan Hilty and Katherine McPhee (yes from American Idol), we hope Smash is a hit! We're proud to have this mixing with Bob Chefalas. We are also very happy to have Sound Supervisor Mike Graham from Smart Post Sound in Burbank here with us working on this show.
In addition, USA will start airing new episodes of Royal Pains tonight, January 18 th at 10pm. We're very excited that they've also been picked up for a 4th season. We really enjoy working with this show and crew led by Exec Producers Andrew Lenchewski and Michael Rauch and Producer Antonia Ellis.
GOLDEN GLOBES TIME
Congratulations to all the 2012 Golden Globe nominees & winners! Below are the projects Soundtrack had the pleasure of working on:
Hugo
-Winner for Best Director (Martin Scorcese)
-Nominated for Best Drama and Best Original Score (Howard Shore)
My Week with Marilyn
-Winner Best Actress (Michelle Williams)
-Nominated for Best Musical or Comedy and Supporting Actor (Kenneth Branagh)
The Adventures of Tintin
-Winner for Best Animated Film
Homeland
-Winner for Best TV Drama and Best Actress (Claire Danes)
-Nominated for Best Actor (Damian Lewis)
Mildred Pierce
-Winner Best Actress (Kate Winslet)
-Nominated for Best Miniseries, Best Supporting Actor (Guy Pierce), and Best Supporting Actress (Evan Rachel Wood)
Game of Thrones
-Winner for Best Supporting Actor (Peter Dinklage)
-Nominated for Best TV Drama
Shame
-Nominated for Best Actor (Michael Fassbender)
We Need to Talk About Kevin
-Nominated for Best Actress (Tilda Swinton)
Crazy Stupid Love
-Nominated for Best Actor (Ryan Gosling)
Machine Gun Preacher
-Nominted for Best Original Song (The Keeper- music and Lyrics by Chris Cornell)
Boardwalk Empire
-Nominated for Best TV Drama, Best Actor (Steve Buscemi), Supporting Actress (Kelly Macdonald)
Breaking Bad
-Nominated for Best Actor (Bryan Cranston)
The Good Wife
-Nominated for Best Actress (Julianna Margulies)
Revenge
-Nominated for Best Actess (Madeline Stowe)
Californication
-Nominated for Best Actor (David Duchovny)
The Big C
-Nominated for Best Actress (Laura Linney)
Speaking of awards, the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards this past fall had a great turn out as well! Soundtrack was privileged to be able to work on 4 projects that took home awards:
Boardwalk Empire
Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series (Martin Scorsese)
Sound Editorial/Direction of Drama
Mildred Pierce
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie (Kate Winslet)
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie (Guy Pearce)
The Good Wife
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series (Julianna Margulies)
Family Guy
Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (Half-Hour) And Animation
A new show from Executive Producer Doug Liman, I Just Want My Pants Back. The show follows Jason, a twenty-something living in Brooklyn, as he navigates his way though life, love, work, friendship and having his pants stolen! Mixed in our new and improved Studio F with Dan Brennan, we're thrilled to be working with Exec Producer David Rosen, producer Tim Micsko and Sound Supervisor Louis Bertini.
WELCOME BACK BILL HIGLEY!
We had a new addition to our Soundtrack family this past May. Bill Higley has returned from his stint at Howard Schwartz Recording. He has been working on Frankenweenie, Ice Age 4 and a Christmas TV Special, Drop Dead Diva, Torchwood, True Blood, The Simpsons, Army Wives, In Plain Sight, The Lorax, Eureka, 9 Lives of Chloe King, White Collar, How to Make it in America, Pair of Kings, Suits, The Apparition & Californication. He’s also worked on helping bring your favorite movies from screen to TV by working on syndication looping for Gran Torino, Observe & Report, Training Day, The Hangover 1 & 2, and Little Children.
Marc Graham (IT Manager), Rob Bessette (Colorist), Terry Lockhart (Senior Engineer), David Catt (Product Manager at Film Systems), and Tim Montgomery (VFX Artist).
It was a happy holiday for Finish Post when they teamed up with Black Magic Design to enhance the heart of their color correction suite with the addition of the DaVinci Resolve. Used on major motion pictures and broadcast commercials throughout the world, Resolve adds an extra tier of professionalism that is surpassed by none and matched by few. Real time grading, 2K/4K capability, node based image processing, 3D tracking, noise reduction, full stereoscopic 3D capabilities, and file input/output are just a handful of the upgrades that Resolve has to offer.
Our colorist, Rob Bessette, is now the proud father of two (a beautiful baby boy Camden (born beg. of Dec.) and his new Resolve). Rob is excited about the options that the Resolve will add to the color room, putting us on par with New York and Los Angeles. Always on the forefront of color correction and post production advancements, Resolve is among the first to fully implement integration with both Avid and Final Cut Pro offline editing software, allowing for a much smoother work flow between the offline and online world. Timeline prep, conform, and rough composites can now be achieved solely in the color suite, saving you time and money. Rob can't wait to see you there!
AIRCRAFT INTRODUCES A NEW SALES REP
 AirCraft is spreading it's wings all the way to California! David (aka "Leggo") Rojas, AirCraft's newest sales rep, began his journey with music at 15 making beats with his mom's "state of the art" component turntable/tape deck/radio set up. He's cut his teeth spinning for clubs, music industry events, corporate events and touring, as well as producing custom music for film/TV licensing, indie and major label artists, and national ad campaigns. Some clients include - Interscope Records, Dreamworks, Lionsgate, MGM, Paramount Pictures, Def Jam, Scion, Red Bull, Reebok, K-Swiss, DGK, Mad Media Films, MTV, Showtime Networks, FX Networks and many others. We are happy to have him continuing to spread the good word in the City of Angels.
Tim Reppert has taken a larger roll as Managing Producer at AirCraft and has been busy creating customized music for Hill Holiday and Dunkin Donuts, as well as licensing music for McDonalds, Planet Fitness, Titleist, Tyson Foods, Toy State, Church's Chicken, Heluva Good, WGBH, and Jack Daniels. We are continuing to work with our international clients in Australia, Japan, Korea, Israel, The Netherlands, and Russia.
SIZE DOES MATTER
Often when starting on a new job the last thing on most producer's or art director's minds is what the final product will actually look like. They're concerned with who will be doing what, when they'll be doing it, and for how much, along with a laundry list of other issues and questions that need to be addressed long before the project is into the post phase. No one expects the producer or the art director to have all the answers to all the spec questions we have, that's why you go to a post house, but by keeping a few key things in mind, you'll be able to save yourself a lot of time and money in the post-production process.
Remember Title Safe (and action safe)
This is an important one. If your project is going to be watched anywhere besides the internet, then you need to pay attention to title and action safe. Whether or not you fit into title and action safe will be the difference between a lot of overages and a late night call from Video Express telling you that your spot that needs to go out is wrong. This is most important any time you are going to be down-converting to standard definition, because depending on the standard definition screen a small portion of your video will be cut off, this is why you need to stay inside action safe. And this leads to the next point.
Know your Down-convert
More often than not, you will be finishing your spot in HD, but will also need an SD master for certain TV stations. Often so much attention gets put on finishing the HD version in time, the SD gets forgotten. But it's extremely important to know exactly how you want your HD spot to be down-converted to standard definition. The three options are: anamorphic, letterbox, and center cut. Center cut is very common, but also the most problematic. It cuts off part of the left and right side of the 16x9 screen in order to fit the image into a 4x3 screen. And if you haven't paid attention to title safe and action safe, then there is a possibility your copy, art cards, logo, etc may be cut out of the frame.
Where is your project going?
If your project is going to be a web video or used only for a power point presentation then a lot of the details such as frame size, frame rate, format, etc. are a little more flexible. But if you are going to TV or something like a Jumbotron, then we need to know more of the details as early as possible. If you know where your project is going to end up, then we are able to better help you figure out the more specific tech details.
Stereo or surround?
This is a fairly simple one, but can cost you unnecessary time and money. Do you need to finish in surround? If so, then your tape needs to be an HDCAM SR. If not, you don't need to spend the extra money on an HDCAM SR tape and can instead just use an HDCAM tape. This saves money and will cut down on the time it takes to make your deliverables and check everything for glitches.
Projects always change and there are always going to be last minute issues that have to get fixed late at night in the post process, but as long as you keep these four things in mind, you should be able to minimize the frantic late night emails about the issue with your project.
 A NOTE FROM ROB
For over 30 years we've been steering The Soundtrack Group to a place where it has the size and capability to handle the largest national ad campaigns and mixing of A-list Hollywood features, yet small enough to know that you like your mocha lattes with just a dash of sugar. This newsletter is our way of keeping you in touch with the things that The Soundtrack Group is doing to use developing technology, a terrific staff and a little chutzpah to handle your projects.
Beth Gimbrone (Studio Manager) David Ortiz (Red Sox Player) and Mike Secher (Engineer) Recording for "The Cleveland Show".
The cast of "Bob's Burgers" came in to record. From L: Ric Schnupp, Melissa Galsky (actress), H. Jon Benjamin (actor), Eugene Mirman (actor), John Roberts, Kristen Schaal (actress) & Mark DeSimone (mixer).
Dave Sicilian (Machine Room Engineer), Jeff Bridges (actor), & Beth Gimbrone (Studio Manager). Jeff came in to record for Hyundai.
From L: Ned Lott (Session Supervisor), Abigail Breslin (Actress), Mark DeSimone (mixer), and Ric Schnup. Abigail came in to record for Zambezia.
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Scott Cannizzaro has been working on spots with producer Kenny Klompus of Trahan, Burden & Charles for Hard Rock Café, Smart Balance, Hair Cuttery, and Haribo, (TV & Cinema Mixes). He’s also been entertaining the Grey and Panache crew of Kim Shunk, Heather Steitler, Marshall Twinam, Dante da Parma, Adam Seely, and Barry Moross as they do their Olive Garden TV and Radio ads. Furthermore, he's had Marjorie Clarke from Uniworld in working on Ford Radio & TV spots, Brian Sweeney from Hill Holliday working on TV spots for Novartis Tekturna, and Carrie Plantamura from Visual Alchemy in to do a VO Record for SciMed.
Dan Aron has kept Scott busy with spots for Quest and Goya. Scott and Dan also worked with long lost friend/producer Gary Bass, now of DiMassimo Inc, on radio spots for Memorial Sloan Kettering. Scott's Exxon Mobil spots were produced by Matt Hill and Susan Ducey of DDB as well as Steve Diamond and Martin Babitz from Euro.
Thatcher Adams and Danny Pelegrini from Toth have brought us spots for Wrangler, Soma Lingerie, and Chico’s. Scott also recently had a visit from another old friend, John Cerrone who came in to work on a PSA for the Animal Medical Center with renowned bandleader Peter Duchin. We love it when the Arnold crew from Boston comes to hang out, and we were lucky to get a visit from Sean Vernaglia and Whitney Bogosian, who came to work on new TV & Radio spots for McDonalds.
Dan Brennan has been very busy doing trailer work, but he was also able to fit in some AD clients. He worked on some Olive Garden spots with Kim Shunk and Heather Steitler from Grey Advertising. He also got in a session with Mike Lawson from Arnold for Titleist, and Marjorie Clarke with Uniworld came in for Ford and Lincoln mixes. He also worked with Paul Guidry from Arnold NY on a McDonalds Radio spot!
ADS-UP! BOSTON
Mike Secher has had a creative year writing music for clients like MLB with Hill Holliday for Bryan Sweeney and Tim Cawley, as well as composing music for Connelly Partners and their client, Mass Office of Travel & Tourism, with Alyson Singer, Natasha O'Rourke and Jonah Hulbert. He also worked with Zeke Bowman from Mullen on the JetBlue and Barnes & Noble TV campaigns. In addition, he mixed and handled the sound design on several Panasonic TV spots for Mike Lawson at Arnold.
Brian Heidebrecht has been very busy with Hill Holliday this year, especially on the Dunkin Donuts account with Joe Berkeley, Lisa Belden, Andy Rosenthal and Chona Camomot. He's also been working with Alex Vainstein on Chili's and Liberty Mutual along with Carissa Marlowe on Merrill Lynch and Bryan Sweeney on MLB. In addition, Brian mixed some CVS TV with Trish Dowley, Huntington Bank TV with Paul Shannon, and McDonalds TV & Radio with Sean Vernaglia - who are all from Arnold.
Howard Carle recorded, sound designed and mixed a new TV campaign for Southern New Hampshire University with Phaedra Schmidt, Martha Rush Mueller, Jason Mayeu, Adam Fitzgerald, Michelle Dunn and Jennifer Crossett along with Editbar's Peter Barstis and Vanessa Macedo. Howard also recorded and mixed some new TV and Radio for Connelly Partners and their clients Papa Gino's with Jonathan Tompkins and Creative Nick Bontaites. In addition, he mixed some new web spots for Digitas and their client Harley Davidson with Anna Prebluda, Brian Smith, Doris Chung, Rafael Feliz and Yuhei Ogawa.
Brian McKeever has keeping busy with Putnam on the New England Patriots sponsorship TV and radio campaign with Kris Rodhammer, Ross Rackliff and John Doucet along with Engine Room's Cheryl McKeever and Don Packer. Brand Content was back in Studio D working on Keurig TV with Gino Visco. Lucy Herzog from Allen & Gerritsen was also in with Hannaford TV and radio with George Koukkos and Toy State with Craig Falzone.
Mike Letourneau has been spending his year with Peter Gladstone from Boston Beer working on Sam Adams and Twisted Tea. He also spent a lot of time with Jaime Guild from Arnold on Volvo TV and Radio. In addition, he got to work with Melanie Walsh from Stride Rite and Khan Duymazlar and Josh Hoekwater from Genuine Interactive on DIRECTV.
Dave Sicilian handled sound design and mix for the Red Sox and Brian Drewes at Zero VFX. In addition, he worked with Whitney Bogosian from Arnold on some McDonald's TV and Margie Sullivan from Redtree Productions on a video for the Federation for Children with Special Needs.
It was like old times in Studio G as Kevin McLaughlin welcomed back friends Paul Stone for Granite City Electric TV and radio, Claudia Delmonico for Carpenters Union radio and Renee Pittman-Williams for Mass Dept. Of Public Health radio. Meanwhile Marketing Drive, featuring the crew of Todd Adams, Matt Lenig, Stephanie Blicharz and Kate Furey kept the electricity flowing with some MassSave radio. Scott Dinsmore and Lorriane Wark from Garrand in Portland, Maine scooped some delicious Green’s Ice Cream radio.
HOT WAX
Scott Cannizzaro and John Kiehl have been working with Chandrika Tandon on her new Album "Soul Call." It was just nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Contemporary World Music category. Congratulations! Another Grammy Nomination (Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance) was given to Dream Theatre for their song "On The Back Of Angels", which was mixed by our very own Andy Wallace. In addition, Chris Coady was in the studio mixing the upcoming Cold Cave and Mates of State albums. Soundtrack NY's Paul Frye was his assistant.
AT THE MOVIES
Dan spent a great deal of time working with Dylan Bruno of IFC on Trailers for The Other Woman, Housemaid, Kaboom, Cold Weather, Peep World, Certified Copy, Super, The Princess of Montpensier, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Wrecked, Love, Wedding, Marriage, Stakeland, L’Amour Fou, The Ledge, The Trip, Buck, Salvation, Flypaper, Myth of the American Sleepover, Love Crime, Black Power, and Weekend.
Stephen Garrett from Kinetic came in with Midnight, Black Death, Bill Cunningham NY, The Illusionist, Life Above All, To Catch a Dollar, My Afternoons with Margueritte, 13 Assassins, The Last Circus, Higher Ground, The Interrupters, Bangkok Knockout. Chris Argento with World Wrestling Entertainment came in to do print masters for Chaperone and That’s What I Am.
Jennifer Hwang, a new producer for Film District worked with Dan on the Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark 5.1 trailer and TV spots. Jennifer Fox from Zohe Films came by to do a trailer for My Reincarnation.
Dan also mixed a film called Coming up Roses for Belladonna Productions, directed by Lisa Albright!
Beaux Neylon has kept busy with our regular shows Gossip Girl, SVU, White Collar, CI, Law & Order: LA, Royal Pains, Bored to Death, and Boardwalk Empire. He’s also found time to record ADR for Wanderlust, I Love You, Man, The Big Year, The Lincoln Laywer, Lost Valentine, Crazy Stupid Love, The Craigslist Killer, The Paul Reiser Show, Brain Trust, Fringe, Smurfs (Yay for Smurfs 2!), 30 Rock, Bob’s Burgers, NCIS, Big Love, The Good Wife, Bad Teacher, Homework, The Sitter, The Cape, Monroe, The Keyman, Shameless, Detroit 187, LOL, Priest, Green Lantern, Safe, The Event, Locke & Key, Georgetown, Suburgatory, Damage Control, Everybody Loves Whales, Tiger Eyes, The Mentalist, The Big C, Spy Kids 4, Frankie Go Boom, Caesar in Rise of the Apes, Man on a Ledge, Guide to Life, Trespass, Teen Spirit, Suits, Combat Hospital, Breaking Bad, True Blood, The Photo League, Touch, Mission Impossible 4, Ghost Protocol, Alphas, and Leverage.
Mark DeSimone has been a busy bee! He’s worked on Mildred Pierce, The Big Year, Fringe, The Good Wife, NCIS & NCIS LA, Futurama, Smurfs, A Legal Mind, Yesterday Today & Tomorrow, Something Borrowed, Big Love, Falling Skies, Bob’s Burgers, Men of a Certain Age, Chuck, Monroe, Shameless, Machine Gun Preacher, The Sitter, The Defenders, LOL, Safe, Homeland, Final Destination 5, The Mentalist, No Ordinary Family, This Must be the Place, Bridesmaids, Man on a Ledge, 30 Minutes or Less, Walk All Over Me, Wanderlust, Chaos, Family Album, Drive, Pan Am, The Lucky Ones, Georgetown, Revenge, Red Tails, Weekends at Bellevue, Smash, Damages, X-Men: First Class, Page Eight, Tiger Eyes, Everybody Loves Whales, Family Reunion, Super 8, Hero Factory, The Event, Harold & Kumar 3, Warehouse 13, Dolphin Tale, Shame, Dream House, Gods Behaving Badly, The Grey, Covert Affairs, Hansel & Gretel, Cold Light of Day, Sherlock Holmes 2, New Years Eve, and Alphas. In addition to all of that he’s also worked on Gossip Girl, SVU, Law & Order : LA, Criminal Intent, White Collar, Royal Pains, Boardwalk Empire, Bored to Death and done DVD Commentary for Paul, Jane Eyre, Source Code, and Nurse Jackie.
Dan found time to squeeze in some ADR for The Big Year, SVU, Morlocks, Monroe, Company Retreat, Safe, The Big C, and Suits.
Scott also managed to squeeze in some ADR. Here is what he got to work on: We Need To Talk About Kevin, The Lying Game, SVU, John Stephenson’s Untitled project, Suits, White Collar, Breaking Bad, and How to Make It In America.
David Boulton has done sessions for The Film Foundation, 30 Minutes or Less, Wanderlust, Game of Thrones, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Friends with Benefits, Escape from Planet Earth, The Event, Law & Order: LA, Safe, Oz: The Great & Powerful, New Years Eve, Hugo, and My Week with Marilyn.
Bill Higley has had a lot of work come his way since his return to NY! He's worked on Revenge, Californication, How to Make It in America, Suits, Torchwood, The Walking Dead, In Plain Sight, The Lorax, Ice Age Christmas Special, Eureka, The Simpsons, True Blood, Pair of Kings, Apparition, The Closer, Vampire Diaries, CSI Miami, and Alphas.
On top of working on shows such as Royal Pains & Smash, Bob Chefalas worked with producer Brad Carpenter and sound supervisor Louis Bertini to help bring the adventures of Jonathan Ames to the masses with the 3rd season of Bored to Death.
In Boston, Seth Macfarlane (Writer/Director/Producer) came in to Studio E to work with Mike Letourneau on two of Seth's flagship shows, Family Guy and American Dad. Seth voices many of the characters for both shows including Peter Griffin, Stewie, and Quagmire for Family Guy, and Stan and Roger for American Dad. On a related note, Mila Kunis & Ryan Reynolds came to record their voices for Family Guy as well. Mike also recorded two classic Disney characters over the past month. Pat Carroll came in to give her special flavor to Ursula from The Little Mermaid, and Robby Benson reprised his role as The Beast for an upcoming Disney video game coming out for the XBOX 360 Kinect.
THE FINISH LINE
Maarten Apeldoorn is our newest face to the Finish family. This debonair Dutchman is the trifecta as our Senior Editor, Maya 3D expert and After Effects engineer. Maarten comes to us as a Creative Director/Senior Editor, where he worked on accounts for: Sony, MTV Oxbow, Dannon Yogurt & National Beer Brands. While at Finish, Maarten has been working his magic with Arnold on Carnival with Katie Harris and Southern Comfort with Paul Shannon, also from Arnold.
Rob Bessette, our Senior Colorist, has been working on some fun projects with Digitas’ Ben Raynes for GMC and Buick. Lunchpail’s Derrick Deluties has been in for color with Rob on New HampshireTourism, CitiTrends and Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Peter Hutton, renowned filmmaker, came in with some archival film footage for Rob to transfer and color. Rob also had a great time with a Remote Color session for McDonalds. It was a collaborative effort between Zero VFX, Arnold Boston, Arnold NYC & Soundtrack NYC.
Tim Montgomery “Monty” spent most of the year on some visual effects work on an Indie Film “ The Cockle Cove Inn” hopefully headed for the ABC Family Channel. Monty also did some Quantel work with Noah Lydiardfrom from PJA on TE Connectivity. Katie Harris has brought some Carnival projects over for Monty that were created in After Effects and Smoke. Puma has also had Monty add his skills to some of their broadcast spots.
Monty and Rob joined forces on quite a few projects this year. Parallax’s Alan Chebot came over for his “ Hearts on Fire” Diamond spot. Rob colored and Monty added some sparkly After Effects that combined ice skaters and some bling. A few various Titleist spots followed that great project with Patricia Wasiolek and Tyler Sanborn from Arnold. Monty and Rob also finally finished a nine month stint of work on Mary Mazzio’s 50 Eggs, “ Apple Pushers” feature documentary that premiered at the Aspen Film Festival, and will be screened at the White House as part of Michelle Obama’s commitment to world health.
Wrapping up our artists in residence is Nick Papazoglou, our assistant editor. Brand Content and the Nantucket Film Festival have used Nick’s talents for the film festivals reels on Vera Farmiga and Paul Haggis. Grant Pace, of Conover Tuttle Pace and Rachel Walchak, freelance producer, were in to work with Nick on a piece for Suffolk Downs.
AIRCRAFT MUSIC LIBRARY
AirCraft music was recently placed in TV spots for Progressive, Carnival, Planet Fitness and Fallon Community Health Plan. In Radio spots for McDonalds, Huntington Bank, Jack Daniels, BLOOM, 99 Restaurant, Panera Bread and Dunkin' Donuts. In Internet promos for Vertex, Carnival, Planet Fitness, Progressive, & McDonalds, and an internal video for Tyson.
Register for a free online account with AirCraft so you can search and download all of our music directly from our website.
Call (800-343-2514) or email us directly for free custom searches, price quotes and licensing.
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