Doctor Who - ‘Nocturne’: Where I’m At

I am currently working on ‘Nocturne‘ for Big Finish. I would say I am about 1/2 way through the editing stage, so probably have around 3 or 4 days to get to the music writing. I am of course looking forward to having a bit of a break over Christmas, but I do have deadlines, so will be working quite a lot to get this done.

There’s some challenging sound design coming up with a particular noise that is needed. I’m about half way through getting it right, but it needs some fine tuning; we have ideas (John Ainsworth and I), that I shall work on over this weekend. It’s probably the longest I’ve had to spend on coming up with something, but as it is a key element to the story, it has to sound just right.

The ‘in play’ music was also a bit of a challenge, as the city is meant to be a place of ‘Music & Art’ so there is a lot of it about. I’m pleased with the results, even if on occasion there was a bit of cheating going on

This afternoon I shall be recording some Sound FX that I don’t have in my vast collection (around 30GB!). It’s a good job there’s no one else in at the moment, as some of it will definitley be noisey!

A couple of nights ago I worked on the trailer, so I suspect you’ll be seeing that up on the Big Finish site soon, so keep an eye out.

[My Next Project]

…will be Sapphire & Steel “Perfect Day”. I’ll be starting on it straight after ‘Nocturne’ without much of a break. Looking forward to it, as I always enjoy working on Sapphire & Steel - you get to do weird stuff with both sound & music, which is always fun :). I have an idea to blog a full Diary for working on it from start to finish, just to give a bit of an insight in to how I do things. I’ll more than likely put it on a different page, so look out for it.

Cheers for now, and have a Great Christmas.

Steve.

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