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Working with a creative director is a big part of why I enjoy commercials. On this spot, he requested that we filmed both actors at the same time in different locations. I worked out a way for them to communIcate to each other and have it all be recorded cleanly while keeping the ambience of each space intact to help differentiate their locations.

This is an example of my work on a national commercial campaign for Lending Tree Loans. Nick Spooner, one of my favorite directors to work with, was extreamely happy with our results, especially considering the puppeteer's dialog was delivered from under the couch. Here is another spot I mixed from that campaign.

This is one of Tide's National commercials for their "That's My Tide" series. I mixed on this campaign during 2012-2013

Hollywood, CA… On January 16th, 2010, the American Cinematheque and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association® presented The Golden Globe...

I mixed many of these commercials, featuring Jamie Lee Curtis, during 2011-2013. here is another from the series that I mixed http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7kc2/activia-irregularity-featuring-jamie-lee-curtis

As a busy “sound for picture” mixer based in the Los Angeles area, John David Franco gets first call to supervise sound recording on a variety of jobs, from mixing hundreds of national commercials to film and television shows to sports and special events. Some of the most challenging jobs, however, involve bringing live performance and music to the screen. Whether it’s his award winning work for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or recording the entire cast of the Lion King fo

When you get the opportunity to be part of a truly once in a lifetime event, you have to take it. This was the case when I took part in a world-wide, scratch that, galaxy-wide concert event that included Sir Paul McCartney singing a wake up song to the astronauts in the ISS Space Station over 220 miles above the earth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpvE8kVGeZI It took place in the middle of a concert at the Anaheim Pond in California. Sir Paul sang "Good Day Sunshine

In late April 2004, I was first contacted to record what was first referred to as, an intimate forty minute concert for around fifty people on May 4th. What made this gig different than any other? We would be traveling on a jet at over 30,000 feet, flying from Chicago to Los Angeles as Sheryl Crow preformed her music set with her songwriting partner Tim Smith. To complicate matters, the FAA would not allow us to connect anything to the plane's electrical system and neede