Marla Kishimoto

I've added a page with my credits list, and temporarily taken down my media page as the bulk of it was material I created while in school.

Great big update here. I'll try to keep this more current - perhaps I'll post some of the work-related entries from my personal blog.

Anyway, I'm still working at the same company, except we are now called Optix Digital Sound. We merged this past summer with another Toronto post production company called Kitchen Sync, so now we have a moderately large team and a lot of work coming in, which is great.

Recently I helped on the sound design for a short film that a coworker was directing for Project Twenty1, a 21-day day film challenge based out of Philadelphia. We were up against 49 other teams from the States. It's the first thing that I've ever been credited on.

Our film, Shades of Death, was nominated for Best Sound Design, which is pretty exciting! We also won the award for Best Visual Effects, and were nominated for Best Editing as well.

I'm finally up on the company website!

Go here and go wayy down to the bottom. :)

I'm still working at Optix Digital Picture and Sound. After my two month internship ended, they hired me on full-time, and I've been working there throughout the summer.

I've been working both in the audio and video departments. In audio, I'm doing prep for ADR sessions and cutting the sessions once they're done. In video, I've been training in the tape room, learning to use digital tape machines to create final deliverables for shows. It's great to learn new things!

Well, this post is a little delayed, but I've been working for the last month and a half at Optix Digital Picture and Sound, a fairly large postproduction facility in downtown Toronto. The sound department is fairly new to the company, since Optix just bought out Crunch Recording a few months ago.

Being an intern, I get to do a lot of the grunt work such as conversions, digitizing tapes, file transfers and backups, etc. But I also get to do prep work for ADR sessions and I'm beginning to do some dialogue and SFX editing, which is exciting!

I'm still working the previously mentioned internship with OneRoof Studios, but tomorrow I'm starting a new position interning for Joel Walsh of Studio 13. Joel is an accomplished sound design who works primarily with video games, and his studio is located in the east end of Toronto. I'm really excited to work with him!

I just wanted to update to let you know that I recently accepted an internship position at OneRoof Studios. I'll be working there part-time doing recording, mixing, sound designing for music, commercials, TV, and anything else that comes my way.

I'm really excited because their new outlook is to create content from within the company rather than relying on clients for income. This will allow me a little more creative leeway, which is great!

Hello, everyone!

Welcome to version two of my website. A friend of mine was kind enough to provide me with the domain name www.marlakishimoto.com, and my brother was kind enough to host it for me, and voila! A pretty new page.

So far the content is the same as the previous version. I'll update here when I've added some more.

-Marla