After finishing "Sleepy Hollow", I've been working on a 4 hour TV film, starring Sean Bean. It's a thriller in the best tradition of British cinema, with gangsters, police, MI6 and various other people all mixed up together in a fast moving 4 x 1 hour series to be shown on ITV later this year.
The show is called "Extremely Dangerous", and the details are available on the IMDB, which you can reach from my front page (lets hope I got the URL right this time!). The show is directed at a fast and stylish pace by Sallie Aprahamian, and the wonderfully moody photography is by that master DOP, Peter Middleton.
It was a very hard show to do, with long days, and a lot of night work. Because the set-ups Sallie chose were ingenious, it meant we had to have all the toys out most of the time. No just putting the Nagra round my neck, and keeping everything very lightweight. I used the Filmtech mixer on virtually every shot, and even did some 6 mic mixes with the Coopersound. (on a TV Film!) This really shows up the limitation of working on only two tracks, and I can't wait to get my hands on the DEVA 11. This is a hard disc recorder, with removable drives, one, two three or four track recording, depending what you want for each shot, highly reliable, and virtually indistructable. No more DAT!! At the end of the day, you either hand over the hard drive to the sound transfer bay, or give them the backup DVD ram to transfer from. I knew computer technology would eventually take over the sound department. Now it only remains to produce good, reasonable cost digital mics, and a portable battery driven digital field mixer, and goodbye analogue!
The first signs of "Sleepy Hollow" coming out are at the Paramount site, from which you can download the trailer. It will run on QuickTime 3 and above. It's really chilling, and gives a real flavour of the film. The trailer is at: www.sleepyhollowmovie.com
Below are some photo's from "Extremely Dangerous"