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Jim Wilson, Audio Architect/Chief Noisemaker
  • September 2001-Present: Wishupon Productions, Inc.

    July 2005:
    Foley Recordist – “Expiration Date” (2005)

    June 2005-December 2005:
    Smilebox

    Dec. 2004-Jan. 2005:
    Foley Recordist – “Police Beat” (2005)

    Nov.-Dec. 2004:
    Sound Design/Editing-“The Meaning of Food” (3 Episodes, PBS)

    June 2004 – Present:
    Recording Audio for Microsoft Office Tutorial Videos

    March 2004:
    Sound Design/Mix for Documentary “Busting Out” (Showtime Network)

    June 2003:
    Recorded 10th Anniversary Audio Edition of Robert Fulghum’s “Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.”

    June – March 2004:
    Sound Design and mix of six PBS “Be More…” Promotional Spots
    (Winner - Silver Promax Award)

    May 2002 – Present:
    Casting, recording, and editing of Microsoft Office On-line Tutorials

    Feb. 2002:
    “Perfect Illusions” - KCTS documentary/PBS
June ‘98-September 2001: Pure Audio
Awards:
’99 Soundie-Best Retail Spot: Nordstrom-“Doc-umentary” (DDB)
’99 Emerald City Award-Best Sound-“The Quest for the Noble Desert Poodle”
’00 Emerald City Award-Best Sound-“Adventure Diva’s: Cuba-Paradox Found”
’01 Soundie-Best Radio Segment: “How the Texas Rangers Will Pay for A-Rod”
’01 Silver Microphone Award: Retail Commercial: “Warranty USA”

Films:
“Kansas,” written /directed by Tim Blake Nelson (SIFF, 1998)
“Lily,” written/directed by Wendy Jo Carlton 1999
“The Shadows of Ben and Zelda,” written/directed by Adrienne Shelley (SIFF,1999)
"The Quest for the Noble Desert Poodle" written/directed by Dan Monaghan (1999)

Documentaries:
“Adventure Diva’s: Cuba-Paradox Found” (PBS, 1999)
“Conscience and the Constitution” (PBS, 2000)
“Inside the Box: The Human Side of Medicine” (PBS, 2000)
“Adventure Diva’s: New Zealand-Stroppy Sheilas and Manawaheini’s” (PBS, 2001)
“Adventure Diva’s: India-Holy Cow” (PBS, 2001)
“Adventure Diva’s: Iran-Behind Closed Chadors” (PBS, 2001)
Experience Music Project: Mixed audio for MEG-Tour (2000)
Microsoft: creating audio for Hallmark: Greetings Wokshop 2000 Deluxe

Spot work for Nintendo, Washington State Lottery Scratch Game, Seattle Seahawks, The Seattle Gay/Lesbian Film-Festival, Jerry’s Home Improvement, Eagle Hardware, McDonald’s, Nordstrom, Federal Express‘98
  • June ‘94- June ‘98:
    Microsoft:
    Oceans (UI Design, Video Sweetening)
    Explorapedia-The World of People (Animation Sweetening)
    Complete Gardening (UI design)
    Atlas (Character Sound Design)
    Explorapedia-The World of Nature (Animation Sweetening)
    3-D Movie Maker (Animation Sweetening)
    Explorapedia 3-D:CD-ROM (Animation Sweetening)
    Creative Writer 2.0-UI/Storystarters
    Paul Bunyon- (Animation Sweetening)
    My Personal Tutor: Prototype-(Talent Direction, Recording, Editing)
    MSN: America’s Funniest Home Pages Demo
    Close Combat: (Video SFX Foley/Announce)
    Dreamworks Interactive: “How It Blows” Demo
    MSN: “15 Seconds of Fame” (First Season, Audio Lead/Producer)
    The Media Store: (Audio Lead)


  • Jan.’96:
    McKenna-Gottlieb/Strong Arm Prod:
    “The National Information Infrastructure and You.”
    Industrial with Bill Nye and Pres. Bill Clinton.
    (Sound Design)

  • Nov. '95-March ‘96:
    Pacific Interactive: Bill Nye, The Science Guy CD-ROM (Sound Design)

  • April ’93-Nov ‘93:
    Watts-Silverstein: Material World CD-ROM
    (Sound Design/Music Co-ordinator)

  • March ‘83-April ’93:
    Lawson Productions/Bad Animals, Seattle:
    Produced, directed, cast and engineered “zillions” of radio commercials and sweetened scores of TV commercials

    Highlights include:
    Darigold: Morphing Cow-TV
    Dairy Farmers of Washington—Comoody Club
    Seattle Mariners (‘’90-’93)
    Lamonts-Red Tag Lady series
    Weyerhaeuser—“Mt. St. Helens” TV
    H.D. Hotspurs (Soundie Award winner-Best Use of Sound)
    Jeans Demo (Soundie award winner-Best Commercial Never Aired)

    June ’92- Aug. 95:
    McKenna-Gottlieb, Inc./KCTS/Disney:
    “Bill Nye, The Science Guy” (Lead Sound Design)-65 Episodes Nationally Syndicated Science Program-Disney and PBS
    (Daytime Emmy Award- Best Sound Editing-March ’96)

    March ‘’91-Nov. ’91:
    Globe Radio Repertory: “Sixteen Stories By Anton Chekhov” (Lead Sound Design)
    13 Episode Radio Drama, aired nationally on NPR, sponsored by Boeing.

    October ‘90-March ’92:
    Comedy by Committee, Inc. “The Synaptic Anarchy Playhouse: Food for Thought”
    (Lead Sound Designer/Co-writer/Performer)

  • April ‘80-March ’83:
    Bonneville Broadcasting: KIRO Newsradio 71
    (Commercial Writer /Producer/Engineer /Performer)

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