Thursday 18 October 2007

The Sound of Triomf

Alex Pearse sent me some photos last night of Triomf's sound engineer José Baptista and Nati, the boom operator. This is a great opportunity to introduce José and his illustrious background:

José Baptista was born in Lourenço Marques-Mozambique. He is a professional sound engineer and a designer and installer of electroacoustic equipment and sound studios. He holds a Cinéma Diploma C from the London International Film School and a BTS Cinéma opt Son from the Ecole Nationale Louis Lumière. He speaks English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

When José is not working on a major film, he co-produces documentaries and records and mixes music albums/CDs. He is also a journalist for Portuguese-language newspapers.

You can find his film credits on IMDB here. His professional experience includes:

2006
  • Post-production sound engineer for la société de Production de Films de Long Métrage : « Les Films de Mai »
  • Post-production sound engineer for la société de Production de Films Documentaires : « Strawberry Films »
  • Installation of electroacoustic equipment for a music studio - dedicated electric installation, video/audio wiring and Ethernet, installation of the equipment.
2004/2005
  • Technical Directeur - Studio des 3 Arts (Feature film and TV mixing)
  • Sound engineer and maintenance of audio section for Plateau de Télévision de la Société MMP (Antenne de Télévision « La Locale »)
  • Installation of electroacoustic equipment for l’Auditorium de là société TABB Productions
  • Sound engineer and Installation of electroacoustic equipment for Studio 64.
1998-2003
  • Sound engineer, member, founder of « Créason » - association of sound research, managing the post-production unit within « Films du Village ».
  • Mixing of several full-length fiction films, many short fiction documentaries for television and cinema.
1990-97
  • Sound engineer for Images Ressource, S.F.P., Offshore, Films du Village.
  • Sound engineer for Studios de la Seine, Studios Desmarquest, Films du Village.
  • Sound engineer for Studio Savane. (Tam Tam Vidéo, Audiophase)
  • Sound engineer for video studios Mikros Images, UMT, SACFA, Studios Desmarquest, Auvico, Alphamédia.
  • Designer/demonstrator of audionumeriques equipment at PUBLISON
1979-90
  • Sound engineer for the video studio of Waymel Montage
  • Sound engineer for the mixing studios of Teletota and Version Française.
  • Sound engineer for the video studio of Tigre Productions.
  • Chief sound operator for documentary films, sound engineer for mobile video, assistant sound engineer for fiction films for many French video production companies
  • Sound technician for Production Services for l’Institut National du Cinéma du Mozambique

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