2nd Assistant Sound / Sound Assistant
Full Member
Duncan worked for sound mixer Simon Hayes throughout the recording of Tom Hooper's 'Les Miserables', which won the Oscar and Bafta for best Sound at the 2013 Award ceremonies and was hailed for it's achievement of producing a musical feature with 99% of the sound being recorded live on set without the addition of ADR.
His other recent work for Simon include Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus', and Matthew Vaughn's 'X-Men: First Class', along with periods of work on Danny Boyles 'Trance'.
He has also worked frequently with sound recordist David Lascelles including the pilot and filming of the first series of ITV's Inspector Morse prequel 'Endeavour', and the production of the BBC comedy 'Lapland'.
During his career to date Duncan has also worked for sound mixer John Hayes on Jeff Wadlow's 'Kick Ass 2', and and the comedy feature film 'Plastic', and has worked as Second Boom Operator for a number of productions including the Channel 4 TV drama 'Top Boy' and feature film 'Lotus Eaters' with mixer Simon Byshe, and on the feature film 'Nativity 2' with mixer John Taylor.
Originally based in Scotland, Duncan began his career in the film industry in 2010 on the John Landis' production 'Burke and Hare' when he worked with sound mixer, John Midgley during their shoot in Edinburgh and Stirling.