Jeremy Olsen 818 / 749 9531 | [email protected] jeremyscottolsen.com | MPSE, Editors’ Guild, and Television Academy member
OBJECTIVE To further challenge myself with project-based or overflow work in music and sound, particularly sound design, re-recording mixing, scoring, ADR & voiceover recording, dialogue editing, and sound restoration.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Production Mixer / Dialogue Editor at TBS's "American Dad!” - 2012-present Record and edit dialogue, ADR, group, and occasionally music and temp sound effects. Record high-profile actors, musicians, and celebrities such as Kanye West, Justin Timberlake, Seth MacFarlane, Bryan Cranston, Carl Reiner, Andre Ethier, will.i.am, and Rush Limbaugh. Some music direction. Build the show. Manage all dialogue elements for 20-25 episodes at a time from inception until post-production. Interface with producers, coordinators, artists, writers, actors, and post. Record/edit/sound design/mix promos & other projects.
ADR Mixer at Fox Television's "The Orville” - 2008-2012 Run ADR and VO recording sessions for both pre- and post-production.
Composer of original soundtrack for the feature film Boris and the Bomb - 2017 Composed and produced a full orchestral “in-the-box” score for this feature-length action-comedy.
Production Mixer / Dialogue Editor at Fox Television's "The Cleveland Show” - 2008-2012 Same as “American Dad!” above.
Assistant Production Mixer / Dialogue Editor at Fox Television's "Family Guy” - 2006-2008 Set up ProTools sessions, set up and struck studio, filed scripts, maintained equipment, imported and exported sessions and OMFs, managed backups and archival.
Head Restoration Engineer at Novastar Digital Sound Services — 2005-2006. Trained and led a team in restoring audio for TV and film. Created department manual. Codified procedures. Assisted in bidding jobs. Scheduled and coordinated freelance employees. Analyzed and restored mono, stereo, and surround soundtracks including dialogue, music, effects, and foreign dubs, using ProTools, Cedar, Waves, NoNoise, Spectrafoo, Dolby, etc. Transfers/laybacks to/from 35mm mag, 16mm mag, optical, DA88, ¼” audio, DigiBeta, ¾” video, D1, D2, ProTools.
SKILLS, TRAITS, AND KNOWLEDGE Record VO, ADR, music. Edit dialogue, sound effects, music. MIx music and to picture.. Denoise audio and restore soundtracks. Gain staging, microphone techniques, signal flow, effects processing. Work with outboard gear, patching, studio setup and maintenance, soldering. Read and write music. Excellent phone and personal skills, meticulous labeling and record-keeping, and unremitting drive for communication, organization, and excellence. I love making clients happy.
EDUCATION Citrus College — Aug 01 - May 02 — Certificate program in the recording arts L.A. NARAS Community College Scholarship award in June 2002.
University of Southern California — August 1994 - May 1999 — Bachelor of Music in Music Education Trustee Scholar, Merit Research Scholars program, Engineering Honors program; USC Trojan Marching Band drumline section leader; various USC music ensembles, L.A. Laker Band.
INTERESTS Drumming, singing, playing guitar; writing pop and orchestral music; camping; running; cooking; USC football.
SELECTED MUSIC PROJECTS and REFERENCE are available upon request. Jeremy Olsen 2715 Wyoming Ave., Burbank, CA 91505 818 / 749 9531 | [email protected] jeremyscottolsen.com
SELECTED PROJECTS FOR PICTURE
American Dad!, The Cleveland animated series PRODUCTION DIALOGUE MIXER / EDITOR 2008-present Show, and Family Guy record dialogue, edit, build radioplay, lock show with producers; responsible for roughly 25 episodes at a time totalling 6000+ dialogue elements
Fox TV Animation promos / sizzles / PRODUCTION DIALOGUE MIXER / EDITOR, SOUND previews for air and DESIGNER, RE-RECORDING MIXER 2008-present exhibition recorded, assembled, edited and mixed audio elements for various promos, DVD commentaries, and previews destined for air, DVD release, or Comicon
The Orville television series ADR MIXER 2017-present record ADR and VO The Emmy Awards television awards PRODUCTION DIALOGUE MIXER 2017 recorded Seth show MacFarlane’s VO for awards presentation
Boris and the Bomb feature film COMPOSER 2017 composed full orchestral “in the box” score for action-comedy film
Cosmos television series PRODUCTION DIALGOUE MIXER 2013 recorded Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s VO as the series was in pre-production
The Lamp Project: Spotlight on mini-documentary COMPOSER 2013 scored this two-minute documentary on an Alexandra Cantle artist, her art, and her disability
Naked Eye short film ADR MIXER 2012 All U Need Is Luv short film DIALOGUE EDITOR, ADR MIXER, SOUND DESIGNER, RE-RECORDING MIXER 2011 Family Guy animated series ASSISTANT PRODUCTION DIALOGUE MIXER / EDITOR 2006-2008 assisted dialog editor on 50+ episodes Anne of The Thousand Days feature film RESTORATION ENGINEER 2005 restored French dub of original film
The Flying Nun television series HEAD RESTORATION ENGINEER 2005 20 episodes Police Woman television series HEAD RESTORATION ENGINEER 2005 10 episodes Cagney and Lacey television series HEAD RESTORATION ENGINEER 2005 10 episodes Erosion feature film ADDITIONAL DIALOGUE EDITOR 2004 Duel Masters animated series ASSISTANT SOUND EDITOR 2004 Public Service: The Private feature film DIALOGUE EDITOR, SOUND EDITIOR, RE-RECORDING Campaign of Gary Condit MIXER 2003 festival-bound documentary Diablo feature film RE-RECORDING MIXER 2003 stereo mix Baldo animated series SECOND ENGINEER 2002 voice recording sessions Plumber's Helper animated short RE-RECORDING MIXER 2002 5.1 surround mix Vlad and Boris film promo RE-RECORDING MIXER 2001 stereo mix