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05/22/2026

Cool picture I snagged of Farmington City Hall yesterday!!

05/14/2026

Some BTS I got while working on Backyard Tripod Films latest movies which release this month!! Dawn of the Clone Wars (May 4th) and Voyage of the Crusader (May 15)

05/06/2026

Attended the F&MAD film festival on Saturday with and !! Got to see the premier of two of the movies she worked on! Every single project was amazing!! A couple of my favorites were Dear Rose (.eua was amazing!!), Shrike, Sophie, Till Death Do Us Part, Chrysalism, and Tune On Out!!

Dear Rose, Tune On Out, and Chrysalism especially stood out to me in how well they did at storytelling and effortlessly communicating the emotions and motivation of their films!! Tune On Out was 's short film directorial debut and a cinematic home run!!

05/05/2026

One of the two Star Wars fan films I got to work on over the past two years premieres today!!

I was the production sound designer, second unit gaffer, ADR mixer, and still photographer for this project!!

I made so many great memories with the incredible cast and crew!!

Dawn of the Clone Wars | A Star Wars Fan Film

05/02/2026

.belgian.bistro waffles and coffee are a great way to start your Saturday morning!!

04/15/2026

Today one of my best friends had the soft opening of her brand new bookstore!! Watching as her vision becomes reality has been awesome!! If you live in the northern Utah area you must come check out the store!!
The Hollow will have it's Grand Opening April 25th!!

04/03/2026

03/31/2026

I haven't had the opportunity to do sound for a musical, but when I do this is how I want to do it.

Part 1

I'm often asked how we record live vocals on set. It really started here.

Before Les Misérables, film musicals were built around pre-recorded tracks. Actors would go into a studio months before shooting and record their songs in controlled conditions. Those recordings then became the foundation of the film.

On set, the actors would perform to playback. The tempo was fixed. The phrasing was fixed. The emotional shape of the performance had already been decided.

That system gives you control. It gives you consistency. But it separates two things that, in performance, should really be one.

Acting and singing.

If an actor wants to take time, they can’t. If they want to pause, they can’t. If the emotion of the scene shifts, the music does not move with them.

As a sound department, our role was traditionally to work around that system. Playback dictated the rhythm of the scene, and we captured dialogue within those constraints.

Tom Hooper wanted to challenge that.

The question was not about sound. It was about performance.

What happens if the actor is allowed to lead everything?

Not just emotionally, but technically. What happens if the entire filmmaking process is built to follow the performance, rather than asking the performance to fit a system?

At the time, that was not how musicals were made. And there was no established workflow to support it.

03/22/2026

Had the privilege of taking pictures at the 2026 Orton and Mckay Dinner hosted by with guest speaker

02/18/2026