MEET BRAYDEN NAKAMURA

Sound Designer

MY WORK

03:49

Moving Parts Experimental Film

This was a student project for the University of Lethbridge. The purpose of this project was to explore the idea/power of "Minimalism" in music. The guidelines consisted of creating a minimalist piece to a video of our choice. I mixed and edited all sounds, but the music is the only thing created by me.

01:44

Dakar Music Editing Trailer

This was a VFS project for editing existing musical material into a trailer setting. This project was packaged with the restricted musical source material each student had to use. We were allowed to process the music any way we like, but could not add any other material.

01:34

GD58/PG18 Terminal Velocity Trailer

04:40

Silence

Was a school project that challenged us to create and mix music for an excerpt that was longer than 4 minutes. Music was created by me at the University Of Lethbridge. Music and mixing were the only things I did for this, all other audio is original to the film.

00:46

Shift 2: Unleashed Trailer Redone

Game Audio Test Video Package project from VFS. The point was to create a scenario where often employers have an application piece required by prospective Game Companies to test the skills and creative abilities of new applicants. Therefore, for this project, I was restricted to only the preset audio materials provided. However, I was allowed to do any processing I wish. In short, All software, employed tools and processing were fair game.

04:56

Sintel Excerpt (Stereo Headphone Mix)

A school project that involved the creation of two headphone mixes for an animated film. One being stereo (this one) and the other using binaural; with the Klang unit. I mixed and edited all sounds, and recorded most of the sounds myself, and sourced some from the public domain (Fire pit, rocks falling being the main ones). Music is the only thing from the original animation, but is mixed into the excerpt by me.

04:56

Sintel Excerpt (Binaural Headphone Mix)

A school project that involved the creation of two headphone mixes for an animated film. One being stereo and the other using binaural (this one); with the Klang unit. I mixed and edited all sounds, and recorded most of the sounds myself, and sourced some from the public domain (Fire pit, rocks falling being the main ones). Music is the only thing from the original animation, but is mixed into the excerpt by me. © copyright Blender Foundation | durian.blender.org

02:30

Breaking Bad + Feeling Good

This was an adaptation project that was designed to see how students could edit and mix a popular song to a scene of their choice. I did the editing and effects on the music, though the dialogue and foley are original to the show.

ABOUT ME

As a sound professional, fundamentally I require a competitive and motivated personality to continually be inventive and focused in a creative field. I achieve success by focusing on not only supporting the visuals at hand but the story that sound can tell by itself. Therefore, the viewer is not only left with a memorable visual experience but an auditorial one as well.

My first introduction to sound design started about seven or eight years ago as an interest in electronic music. I would create synthesized sounds using many virtual synthesizers and effects for songs that I would produce in Ableton Live. Now, I have completed my Vancouver Film School Diploma in Sound Design For Visual Media and have 4 years at the University of Lethbridge's Digital Audio Arts Program. Between the two programs, I have learned a variety of skills in audio, such as recording, editing, mixing, implementing, programming and mastering with the use of Protools, MAX, Ableton, Wwise, FMOD and Logic Pro X. I took classes in audio specialization, acoustics, synthesis, scoring for film and visual media, composition, classical demo recording, game development and sound designing. However, Vancouver Film School's Sound design for visual media program is where I truly polished my skills to focus on the Film and Video Game fields, I learned the fundamentals of Wwise, Fmod, Unity and Unreal Engine's blueprint system to translate my skills into that medium.

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