Audio Post Production for Television and Film: An Introduction to Technology and Techniques

Hilary Wyatt is a freelance Dialogue Supervisor and Sound Effects Editor. She began her career in 1987, creating sound effects and editing music for a number of long running British 'cult' animation series. Since then Hilary has worked as a Sound Effects Editor on a wide range of productions including commercials, documentary, drama and feature films. In 1999 she supervised the dialogues on the British gangster film 'Sexy Beast', and has since as worked as Dialogue Supervisor on a number of British and American features. Recent credits include 'Jojo In the Stars'(Animation) 'Dr Zhivago' (TV) 'Bright Young Things', 'Dear Frankie'and 'White Noise'. Tim Amyes has many years experience in post-production, covering the whole production chain. As well as being a former sound supervisor at Scottish Television, Tim has worked at two other companies in the British ITV network, both as a sound recordist and dubbing mixer. He has been involved in industry training from the start, serving as one of the original members of Skillset, which was set-up to provide training standards (NVQs) for the UK television and film industries. He has also served on both national industry and union training committees, and advised on the recent Scottish Screen/BFI publication An Introduction to Film Language. Currently Tim Amyes lectures in audio, produces specialist corporate videos, and writes, having sold documentary scripts to both the BBC and ITV. A keen film enthusiast, he is a past member of the Scottish Film Archive's advisory committee.