'Graduates 2008-09'

Andrew Spitz

Since early 2010, I’ve been living in Johannesburg, South Africa where I’m primarily working as a freelance sound designer, sound effects recordist & editor, location recordist and lecturer.

Online
Social Sound Design (Q&A site) socialsounddesign.com — founder
{sound + design} blog — founder

Feature Films
Night Drive — sound effects editing for guns and fight scenes
Bakgat 2 — sound effects recording and editing for rugby scenes
Jock And The Bushvelt (3D animation) — sound effects recording for animals and bush ambiences

Commercials
Investec (TV & Cinema) — sound effects recording and editing— This is my current project and it involves a month of recording specific sounds to build soundscapes for the commercial

Documentaries

Sassou Nguesso – Special Assignment (24min for TV) — mix and sound design — turned into a feature length documentary, which I will be mixing in August 2010.
Children of Africa (24min for TV) — mix and sound design

Lecturing
I regularly give lectures on various aspects of sound at AFDA — The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance.
I also run workshops on sound design and other sound related disciplines at Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking.