With only a week left in June, we crossover the halfway point of 2021 and enter the second half of the year. So far in 2021 we have worked on a handful of amazing new projects, all of which we are extremely proud of and excited to share with you.
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March marks 1 full year of lockdown and WFH for most of the world, including the Boom Box Post team. It took some creativity and planning, but over this past tremulous year our team was able to virtually come together for some team building fun! Take a look at some of the activities we held to help us stay connected.
With the protests that have erupted after the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and the countless other African Americans that have experienced police brutality, a conversation about general inequality and lack of representation in the entertainment industry has bubbled to the surface once more. It is a sore subject for many and there is no easy solution to tackle the issue, but it is a necessary conversation.
We, at Boom Box Post, are among the lucky ones. Because we work in animation and our clients aren’t on set, our entire Los Angeles client-base was able to transition very quickly to work-from-home, thus keeping our operations alive and well. That is far from the case for our live-action counterparts. But, that doesn’t mean that we haven’t also seen changes in the amount and type of work that has come through our now-virtual door.
Our Boom Box Library online store is open!
Boom Box Library proudly presents its first release of the Robotic Creations Collection: The Heads Up Display SFX Library & Sound Design Toolkit!
We have a big announcement to make: we are branching out from our post production sound business, Boom Box Post, and have created our own sound effects library company, Boom Box Library. This has been a long-time dream of ours, and we are immensely excited to finally see it making its debut in the coming weeks.
Johnathan Lopez recently joined the Boom Box team as our new assistant editor and office manager. Johnathan was a stellar Boom Box intern, and we are thrilled to have him back to work with us again.
The Boom Box Post crew returned to San Diego this year for Comic-Con 2017!
While Boom Box didn’t bring home a statue from the Daytime Emmys this year, we were humbled to have been honored with two nominations for our work on Ask the Storybots: Outstanding Sound Editing - Preschool Animated Program and Outstanding Sound Mixing - Preschool Animated Program. We were so proud to see our fellow Ask the Storybots nominees at JibJab, Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, bring in a win for Outstanding Interactive - Enhancement to a Daytime Program or Series! Congratulations to all Nominees and Winners, we hope to see you all again next year!
This year we were so excited to attend the 2017 Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards with the Boom Box Post team! We received two nominations in the category of Best Sound and Music Editing for Television Animation: Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Nickelodeon's Animated TV movie Albert. We were also nominated in the category of Best Sound and Music Editing for Computer Episodic Entertainment (Webisode) for Disney's Future Worm. With three nominations, a huge part of the team got to be included, which made the night so a ton of fun. Even more exciting was bringing home the win for Albert, a project we are so proud of (and have blogged about in the past). Here are some fun photo highlights. Thanks for a great night MPSE!
This week, rather than design tips and tricks or a how-to post on building your career as a sound editor, we have an exciting announcement to make! We are knee deep in the creative stages of producing our first Boom Box Post sound library, which we will be releasing this spring. This is a long-awaited next step in our business, and we are stoked to share it with you.
But, before we put the finishing touches on everything, we wanted to ask you a few very important questions--because you, our readers, are our biggest and best resource. We don't want to put out anything that doesn't meet your fabulous expectations. So, to help us out, would you please fill out this short survey about your sound library wants/needs/loves/hates? Your expertise means more to us than you could ever know.
This year has been an amazing one. We have done more business, engaged more sound design community members through our blog, and built a larger team and studio space than even we had dreamed (and we have MASSIVE dreams)! Here's a look back at all that we accomplished in 2016. We could not be more grateful for the opportunity to flourish in this community, and we hope 2017 is filled with even more opportunities to shine.
We had a great time returning to Comic Con again this year! We kicked off with the empowering Cartoon Creatives: Women Power in Animation panel, a discussion showcasing talented women and their experiences in animation. On Friday we were excited to see our work showcased at The TMNT Return to New York Panel and the Disney XD Penn Zero: Part Time Hero and The 7D panel. The creators of Future Worm and Pickle and Peanut kept us laughing all day long on Saturday with their antics, and we wrapped up the show with the first ever Boom Box Post Comic Con TweetUp. Thanks to everyone who came out to all of the exciting events this year! Enjoy some of these fun photos we took, and we look forward to seeing you all at Comic Con 2017!
To help with our continually growing and evolving business, we have had the pleasure of bringing on a new team member: Assistant Editor & Office Manager, Jacob Cook. Jacob's smiling face will now be the first thing that you see when you enter our doors, and we are exciting to add someone with such joyful enthusiasm for sound to our crew.
As a recent graduate of Cal Poly Pomona's Bachelor of Arts in Music with an emphasis in music industry studies, he comes to us with a great base knowledge of recording techniques and a true passion for post-production sound. He shares this passion on a bi-weekly basis through his own personal sound blog, which you can follow here.
This past Saturday was the Motion Picture Sound Editors 63rd annual Golden Reel awards. Nominated for three series, we decided to make a night of it and took the whole crew! To our delight and surprised, it turned out this was our year to bring home the trophy, winning Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR Animation in Television for Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We are very humbled to be honored amongst so many wonderful nominee and proud to be celebrating our company's first industry award. Here are some photos of our fantastic evening at the Golden Reel awards.
Last night, nominations for the 2016 Motion Picture Sound Editor's Golden Reel Awards were announced. Alongside a comprehensive list of top industry talent, Boom Box Post was acknowledged for their work on three separate titles within the Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR (Television Animation) category.
We are beyond excited to accept the nominations for Supervising Sound Editor Jeff Shiffman and his crews on Half Shell Heroes and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as well as Kate Finan and Jessey Drake for their work as dialogue and sound effects editors on Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero.
We've had an incredible year at Boom Box Post and want to say a giant thank you to all of our clients, friends, and blog readers! Day after day, we find ourselves feeling thankful for the opportunity to add our zany sounds to such amazing content. We wish you all peace, love, and joy in the new year!
This was Boom Box Post's first time attending Comic-Con International: San Diego, and it was spectacular! Jeff and I reveled in the cosplay (and crossplay) photo ops, met amazing visual artists on the floor, attended panels for Disney's Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero and Star vs the Forces of Evil and Nickelodeon's TMNT, saw Nickelodeon's The Loud House screened for an audience of insanely enthusiastic children, and schmoozed with all of our favorite clients and friends from the past ten years. It was an incredibly overwhelming, fantastically fast-paced, whirlwind of a weekend. Check out some photo highlights below, and don't forget to read the captions to get the full experience. We'll see you all again next year!
Last September, I stumbled upon an IndieGoGo page asking for donations to “Send WAM to the 137th AES Convention!” Their plea for funds was told by an endearing indie music video with lyrics like:
Help send WAM to the the AES Convention,
Where we’ll see the latest audio inventions.
The largest expo of audio professionals,
WAM’s booth will make AES more accessible.
WAM stands for Women's Audio Mission, and it is “a San Francisco-based non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of women in music production and the recording arts.” Their page explains that “in a field where women are critically under-represented (less than 5%), WAM seeks to ‘change the face of sound’ by providing hands-on training, experience, career counseling and job placement to women and girls in media technology for music, radio, film, television and the internet. WAM believes that women's mastery of music technology and inclusion in the production process will expand the vision and voice of media and popular culture.”
Now, this was something that I could get behind.
In our first year of business, we were so excited to announce that the sound team behind Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles earned a Golden Reel nomination for Best Sound Editing in TV Animation. It was an honor to have been recognized by the Motion Picture Sound Editors guild among many other talented sound teams.