Monday, June 2, 2008

I Make Noise

My name is Kevin Shalkowsky and I was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, two thousand plus miles from Ball State University. After gaining some experience in New York City, I transferred from St. John's University in Queens, New York to Ball State University where I am now a senior.

When it comes to "Free Wall" I have several roles. Currently I am working on the audio crew as the Sound Designer. During production I will keep track of Foley and ADR requirements that will be carried out come the fall semester when students in Rich Swingley's audio production class edit the audio for "Free Wall." During this time I will be supervising groups of students in his class as we all work together to complete the audio postproduction process in Ball State University's industry standard audio studio. During this time I will get very little sleep.

Along with being the Sound Designer and supervising the audio postproduction process, I will also be working on the website, focusing on the website graphics. This will provide a great opportunity as I can encompass my knowledge in graffiti into a digital discipline. Along with creating graphics for the website, I will also include information on how to read many different forms of graffiti, as this can often be difficult to do.

Currently "Free Wall" is still in the preproduction stage. As Sound Designer,  I am focusing my attention into the future, identifying audio, which will need Foley and ADR work. This can be a very tedious process as everything makes noise. I am also using Adobe Photoshop CS3 to create graphics which will be on the "Free Wall" website in the future. 

- Kevin Shalkowsky


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