Crab Day
Dir. Ross Stringer
Role: Supervising Sound Editor & Dubbing Mixer
5.1 Mix
Dir. Ross Stringer
Role: Supervising Sound Editor & Dubbing Mixer
5.1 Mix
As part of a fishing community’s annual ritual, a young boy must kill his first crab in order to become a man and gain his father’s approval.
BAFTA - Best British Short Animation 2024
RTS - Best Post Graduate Animation Film 2024
RTS - Best Post Graduate Sound Design 2024
London Animation Festival - Audience Award 2024
Anibar Audience Award 2023
Official Selection London Internation Animation Festival 2023
Official Selection Flipbook Film Festival 2023
Official Selection (International Competition) Cinanima 2023
Official Selection Linoleium 2022
A Notable Sound:
One of my favourite details in the sound design of Crab Day is the blinking. This was created by inverting the output of software specalising in removing clicky mouth sounds in dialogue.
By recording myself, close mic’d, speaking according to the emotion of the character, and used the inverted output to remove everything but the mouth clicks. Despite the abstraction there is something of the tone/feeling of the speaking that carries over, and communicates the emotion of the boy and the man.
BAFTA - Best British Short Animation 2024
RTS - Best Post Graduate Animation Film 2024
RTS - Best Post Graduate Sound Design 2024
London Animation Festival - Audience Award 2024
Anibar Audience Award 2023
Official Selection London Internation Animation Festival 2023
Official Selection Flipbook Film Festival 2023
Official Selection (International Competition) Cinanima 2023
Official Selection Linoleium 2022
A Notable Sound:
One of my favourite details in the sound design of Crab Day is the blinking. This was created by inverting the output of software specalising in removing clicky mouth sounds in dialogue.
By recording myself, close mic’d, speaking according to the emotion of the character, and used the inverted output to remove everything but the mouth clicks. Despite the abstraction there is something of the tone/feeling of the speaking that carries over, and communicates the emotion of the boy and the man.
NFTS
About:
Simon is a sound designer, dubbing mixer and field recordist. His work spans across fiction, documentary, animation, commercials and podcasts. He graduated from the MA in Sound Design for Film at the National Film & Television School in 2023.
Simon’s approach to sound design is always in service of the storytelling. His ambition is to weave his soundtrack into the fabric of every project. As such he is dedicated to field recording during production, collaborating across departments and is keen to experiment with new workflows and techniques.
In 2023 Simon was awarded the MPSE Verne Fields Golden Reel for Outstanding Sound Editing in a Student Film for his design and mix of Dive.
In 2024 Crab Day, which Simon was the Sound Supervisor for, won the BAFTA for the Best British Animated Short as well as the RTS Award for Best Postgraduate Animation, where Simon’s sound design was also recognised for an RTS Craft Award.
He has also sound designed films that have won at the British Animation Awards and been nominated for Young Arrows and Best Short at London Film Festival.
Alongside his film work Simon is a regular mixer for the Financial Times podcasts and has worked with brands such as Google Pixel, Channel 4, Burt’s Bees, Herd and beyond.
He is proudly an assosiate artist of Brain Audio and a BAFTA Connect Member.
Simon is a sound designer, dubbing mixer and field recordist. His work spans across fiction, documentary, animation, commercials and podcasts. He graduated from the MA in Sound Design for Film at the National Film & Television School in 2023.
Simon’s approach to sound design is always in service of the storytelling. His ambition is to weave his soundtrack into the fabric of every project. As such he is dedicated to field recording during production, collaborating across departments and is keen to experiment with new workflows and techniques.
In 2023 Simon was awarded the MPSE Verne Fields Golden Reel for Outstanding Sound Editing in a Student Film for his design and mix of Dive.
In 2024 Crab Day, which Simon was the Sound Supervisor for, won the BAFTA for the Best British Animated Short as well as the RTS Award for Best Postgraduate Animation, where Simon’s sound design was also recognised for an RTS Craft Award.
He has also sound designed films that have won at the British Animation Awards and been nominated for Young Arrows and Best Short at London Film Festival.
Alongside his film work Simon is a regular mixer for the Financial Times podcasts and has worked with brands such as Google Pixel, Channel 4, Burt’s Bees, Herd and beyond.
He is proudly an assosiate artist of Brain Audio and a BAFTA Connect Member.