New Vocal Booth
After years of recording ADR and voiceover in the mix room, we finally built a sound-proof and sound-absorbent vocal booth for Arcay Studios. Check out the video and the photos below to see the process.
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Grisse
Located in the middle of the 19th century, during the colonial era of Dutch India, the series “Grisse” follows a group of unusual characters who launch a rebellion against a brutal governor and finally have a chance to decide their fate.
Grisse is an action-packed television series produced by HBO Asia. We recorded ADR with actors Toshiji Takeshima (Ryuichi) and Adinia Wirasti (Kalia) in the studio, the post house in Singapore, and director Tony Tilse joining us from Sydney, Australia via Skype. We love when we’re able to use technology to collaborate with people across the globe on cool projects like this one.
Aileron Wins Awards
Aileron has been making the rounds in the Film Festival circuit and picking up some nice nominations and awards! We’re really proud to have contributed to the success of this movie with our award-winning sound design. Congratulations to the whole team!
Boston International Film Festival
Won Best Director – A.J. Wedding
Nominated for Best Narrative Short
Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood
Won Best Narrative Short
Won Best Actress – Maureen McCormick
Action on Film Festival in Las Vegas
Won Best Ensemble Cast
Won Best Actor – Sayed Badreya
Won Best Sound Design (Yeah, that’s us!)
Nominated for Best Director
LA Shorts Fest
Official Selection
The Oval
The Oval is a cute animated that tells the story of an oval-shaped balloon that desperately wants to fit in amongst his unique peers. Watch as his emotional struggle is told through animation, music, and sound effects.
The Oval was written by Matt Green, animated by Kyle Brooks, Grace Gates, Marilyn Cho, and Kyra Edwards, composed by Grant Fonda, and directed by Kyle Brooks. Arcay Studios provided the complete sound design for this touching animated short.
Color Grading for H
Arcay studios got to provide the color-grading and post production audio on Kelly Stoker’s new short film, “H”. It’s about a kind-hearted homeless man named H who is befriended by a desperate waitress looking for a way out of her abusive relationship.
H is a micro-budget independent film shot entirely in the Santa Clarita Valley. It address important social issues like wealth inequality, homelessness, substance abuse, and domestic violence. Watch the film in it’s entirety below.
Kicks
Coming off of his academy award-winning short film NANI, filmmaker Justin Tipping produced and directed his first feature film, “Kicks,” which starred Jahking Guillory, Christopher Jordan Wallace, Christopher Meyer, Kofi Siriboe, Mahershala Ali and Molly Shaiken.
In the film, fifteen-year-old Brandon longs for a pair of the freshest sneakers that money can buy, assuming that merely having them on his feet will help him escape the reality of being poor, neglected by the opposite sex and picked on by everyone – even his best friends. Working hard to get them, he soon finds that the titular shoes have instead made him a target after they are promptly snatched by Flaco, a local hood. Brandon goes on a mission to retrieve his stolen sneakers.
Arcay Studios was proud to provide all of the post audio services including dialog editing, ADR, foley, sound design, and mixing.
Sound Design for Aileron
We’re proud to have created the sound design for AJ Wedding’s short film, Aileron. This exciting story tells the story of a possible murder on board a domestic flight. Aileron stars Maureen McCormick, Sayed Badreya, Ben Begley, Abraham Benrubi, Peyton Dilweg, Berly Ellis, and Jay Sincere, Shi Ne Nielson. Check out the trailer below.
The Lunch Rush
The students at The Masters University have done it again! They give themselves a new challenge each year and this time they decided to produce a musical inspired by La La Land. The team shot their new short film, “The Lunch Rush” at Cadillac Jack’s (near The Pink Motel) in Sun Valley. It will contain a full orchestral score recorded at Capitol Records in Hollywood. Arcay Studios is proud to have provided audio post production services to this amazingly unique student film.
We hope you enjoy watching this as much as we enjoyed working on it.
Inheritance
We work on a lot of faith-based films here at Arcay Studios, but Inheritance was really special. Rick Lalonde’s feature has everything you’d want in a movie: adventure, drama, romance, conflict, and redemption.
The Delvecchios are a close-knit extended family, but after the death of the patriarch, two feuding brothers are left to run the family business. Then a dark family secret comes to light causing old grudges to be magnified and loyalties to be called into question. When one family member seeks to fix the ongoing turmoil he gets more trouble than he bargained for. Inheritance is the story of how sons look to their fathers for identity, and how one son learns that true identity comes from a source deeper even than family.
We enjoyed working with Rick and his team on this fun flick that is distributed by Vision Video. Arcay Studios did all of the audio post production for this film including dialog cleanup, foley, ADR, sound design, and mixing.
Drift
We enjoy working with the students at The Masters University on their short film productions. They stepped it up this year with a new challenge of creating a sci-fi adventure. This faith-based story was shot on location at Laurel Canyon Stages. We recorded the location audio and provided all of the audio post production for this film.