Sound design and music company Machine has hired Louise Baker as head of production. She joins the team of sound designers, composers and producers, bringing 10 years of professional experience in postproduction.
Beginning her career in post at a London voiceover company, Baker then spent two years at Hogarth in audio versioning before making the move to VFX at The Mill. She went on to specialize in color grading at Cheat as head of production.
Baker has led postproduction on high-profile campaigns for clients including Google, Samsung, Audi and Tesco, along with color production on long-form projects for Channel 4 and Netflix.
Baker comes aboard Machine’s sound studios in Fitzrovia, a district in central London. Managing director David Webb noted that a company expansion to New York is scheduled for 2022.
Steven Soderbergh isn't just the director and cinematographer of his latest film. He's also, in a way, its central character.
"Presence" is filmed entirely from the POV of a ghost inside a home a family has just moved into. Soderbergh, who serves as his own cinematographer under the pseudonym Peter Andrews (his father's name), essentially performs as the presence, a floating point-of-view that watches as the violence that killed the mysterious ghost threatens to be repeated.
For even the prolific Soderbergh, the film, which opens Friday in theaters, was a unique challenge. He shot "Presence" with a small digital camera while wearing slippers to soften his steps.
The 62-year-old filmmaker recently met a reporter in a midtown Manhattan hotel in between finishing post-production on his other upcoming movie ("Black Bag," a thriller Focus Features will release March 14) and beginning production in a few weeks on his next project, a romantic comedy that he says "feels like a George Cukor movie."
Soderbergh, whose films include "Out of Sight," the "Ocean's 11" movies, "Magic Mike" and "Erin Brockovich," tends to do a lot in small windows of time. "Presence" took 11 days to film.
That dexterous proficiency has made the ever-experimenting Soderbergh one of Hollywood's most widely respected evaluators of the movie business. In a wide-ranging conversation, he discussed why he thinks streaming is the most destructive force the movies have ever faced and why he's "the cockroach of this industry."
Q: You use pseudonyms for yourself as a cinematographer and editor. Were you tempted to credit yourself as an actor for "Presence"?
SODERBERGH: No, but what I did is subtle. For the first and... Read More
