A percussion-based, modular score.
I’m at work on something very interesting—at least to me, a percussionist and composer who works in TV: I’m composing a percussion-only score for a webseries. But… • It’s probably...
July 2011
A first time for everything.
Just thought I’d share that, among many other very cool things the last few months… I recorded Regan Gomez (who plays Roberta on The Cleveland Show) with her sleeping infant...
Recording DVD commentary for The Cleveland Show and Family Guy.
I recently got to record two very different DVD commentary sessions. One was four or five people for a full episode of The Cleveland Show. The other was a “side-by-side” segment for Family Guy, where the director of an episode was comparing the animatic (black-and-white sketch animation) to the final color version for a few short segments of the show.
I wanted to say a few things about recording DVD commentary, and generally speaking, a full-episode session with several people is significantly more challenging than a two-minute segment with one person, so I’ll focus on that Cleveland session. This setup, though, evolved out of my Family Guy experience and how my counterpart on that show, production mixer Patrick Clark, did it when I was his assistant.