Production Sound Mixer
Full Member
Since 1984 I have recorded Sound in the film/tv industry across a whole range of program output for international broadcasters and a host of independent TV companies. My first love is documentary Sound Recording and I have also worked on many dramas, as well as for corporate production companies and their international clients.
• In 2004 I won a Royal Television Society Award: Entertainment Non-Drama Production Award: Sound Team – “Fighting the War” (2004) BBC2 documentary series, where I was embedded with the Black Watch (7th Armoured) during the invasion of Iraq.
• My full industry CV is at whitford.net
• I have been a full member of the Institute of Professional Sound for
all of that time, and been published in their journal:
o Apr/May 2002: “Line Up’ magazine (Institute of Professional Sound journal): ‘Filming the Cave of Letters’
&
o Aug/Sep 2002: ‘Sound Devices 422 mixer – a review’
I joined University of Portsmouth in 2010 teaching on their BA Film Production course. I went on to become Deputy and then Course Leader 2012-2017. I have now embarked on a PhD: "The ‘Truth of Sound’: Exploring the effects of an immersive location sound recording methodology, within Realist filmmaking." From Sep22 I will head an MA in Film Sound Production.
Royal Television Society Award: Entertainment Non-Drama Production Award: Sound Team – “Fighting the War” (2004) BBC2.
Publications:
• Oct22: THE SOUNDTRACK - Volume (13): Issue (1)
The ‘Truth of Sound’: Exploring the effects of an immersive location sound recording methodology within realist filmmaking
Authors: Steve Whitford
Page: 61-71
DOI: 10.1386/ts_00016_1
Conference Presentations:
• Mar20: AVANCA | CINEMA 2020, Avanca, Portugal: Steve Whitford (University of Portsmouth) Ambisonic-centred Location Sound Recording: Reinvigorating the Observational Documentary (ObsDoc) genre?
• Mar19: Mapping Spaces, Sounding Places: Geographies of Sound in Audio visual Media, Cremona, Italy: Steve Whitford (University of Portsmouth) Ambisonic-centred Location Sound Recording: Reinvigorating the Observational Documentary (ObsDoc) genre?
• Jan18: MeCCSA, South Bank University, London: Dr. Yael Friedman and Steve Whitford (University of Portsmouth) Teaching ‘Otherness’: Reflections on film production pedagogy and political agency.
