Learning from Masterclasses

Brain Moseley Master Class

Brain Moseley works as a sound mixer at films@59 he won the Broadcast young talent award as best mixer in 2004. His master class was very interesting and he talked about the importance of sound in films and he showed us that having bad sound can make your film look very bad. We learned that it’s better to have bad video with good audio than bad audio and good video.

We learned a lot about folly and how you can make things sound like other things just by playing around with props in the recording studio. Brain told us a lot about his job and what he does, he basically ensembles audio and makes things sound very good. He makes a soundtrack for already edited films to make it sound better. He showed us his work for example “The hunt” and it was fascinating how he used folly to create the spider sounds. In 2008, brain mixed Aardman’s BAFTA-winning best short film “The Pearce Sisters”.

Matt Perry

Matt Perry is the Head of Art department at Aardman Animations he is responsible for making props for the animations. Matter is most famous for working on the films: Chicken Run, The Pirates and not to mention the Curse of the Were-Rabbit. During his master class he showed us the making of chicken run and brought in lots of Props from the films and it was amazing to see how detailed all the props are.

Alice Cabanas

Alice Cabanas works as a talent executive, she is responsible for finding new film making talent. She did a drama degree that lead her to produce in theatre, Alice then took interest in marketing because being a theatre producer doesn’t make much money. she used her marketing skills to market film festivals. while working in the film industry, she has learned that “it’s important to address the problems rather than avoid them, you should find out what your voice is, you don’t need to know everything and finally watch and learn as much content as possible”. Alice says the best progression routes shes found is by working her way up through film festivals and other events. Other opportunities such as BFI networking are also great ways to break into the industry.