Around 2005, I changed career from music to filmmaking by becoming a Location Sound Recordist (I'd run a home studio; how complicated could film sound possibly be..?)

I worked on around 40 short films from low to high budgets and seven UK feature films, plus numerous commercials and other shoots.

In order to be around more after my daughter was born, I shifted into TV and online video, doing both location and post-production sound.

I mixed post sound on the 2013 Academy Award short doc finalist "Through the Fire" and my one and only DVD commentary track as Production Sound Mixer was on the time travel feature "Dimensions".

From around 2012, I learned to edit video and operate cameras and have done more camera and directing/producing jobs than sound in recent years. I still really enjoy a sound day, though!

I still Production Mix the occasional drama with a boom op, but mostly record non-fiction, nowadays.

I've worked as a freelance sound recordist on BBC, Sky, Ch4 and ZDF documentaries and factual entertainment shows.

Equipment

I have Sound Devices 633 and MixPre10 mixer/recorders, a beloved old SQN, Deity timecode kits, IEMs, various Schoeps boom mics, plant mics and around 15 radio mic sets.