Matt Parkinson

Experience

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  SafeWaves

  Mar 2018 - Dec 2018

  Sound Engineer
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  Mammoth Studios

  Nov 2018 - Jan 2019

  Sound Assistant

  World on Fire - TV series Working alongside a full audio production crew gave me a great insight and experience working on a big budget set.

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  Askew Productions

  Apr 2019 - Apr 2019

  Production Sound Mixer

  Hope - Short Film shot in Manchester working as a Sound Mixer and Boom Operator.

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  Beecham Productions

  May 2019 - Jun 2019

  Sound Recordist

  WODA - Short Film WODA is a brutally honest perspective on xenophobia in today's Britain inspired by Polish folk mythology.It follows Monika, a young Polish immigrant living in Britain. She is working a late-night shift at a corner shop when three drunk men start mocking her accent. It's nothing she's not used to until the everyday harassment escalates into an assault. Humiliated and hurt, she decides she'll need the help of darker forces to enact her revenge.

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  Talking Lens UK

  Jun 2019 - Jun 2019

  Production Sound Mixer

  Awful Silence - Feature Film

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  School of Video Game Audio

  Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

  Wwise Adventure Game

  This course was coordinated by the School of Video Game Audio, and allowed me to gain a deeper understanding of the middleware Wwise. Incorporating custom sound design/SFX into a few video games, utilizing the assets, events, objects, sharesyncs and sharesets to ultimately create a showreel demonstrating my understanding of the middleware.

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  Self employed

  Aug 2019 - now

  Sound Designer
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  Connection Films

  Nov 2019 - Nov 2019

  Production Sound Mixer

  Bound - Short Film

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  Futureworks Students

  Apr 2020 - May 2020

  Dungeon Crawler Game

  This project consisted of myself and a team of university students all of which were studying towards a game design degree. The game was developed over 6 months using Unreal Engine 4, and is a turn-based 3D dungeon crawler.

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  Lazy Wolf Loki Studios

  Jun 2020 - Jun 2020

  Viking Chess Game

  This project was remote based and consisted of designing/ sourcing sounds using Logic/ Pro Tools for the Viking chess game made by Lazy Wolf Loki game studios, released on mobile.

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  Independent Game

  Jul 2020 - now

  Dirty Beams Game

  This current project is remote based and consists of designing/ sourcing sounds for the Dirty Beams game made by an independent game company based internationally. The game is a space orientated fighter ship game, as of which I have been designing custom sounds for the spaceships/ attack sounds.