Sound Only

November 2011

2011-12-05T09:43:00.001-08:00

A full month in 5 different countries:
Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Oman, U.A.E.
On the production of American Caravan.
Produced by Visionaire Media & Layalina productions
Directed by Jerome Gary

Lovely experience thanks to the excellent cast and the tremendous crew. :)
And a big up to all those who shared and participated in the doing...

July

2011-08-01T06:28:00.000-07:00

- 3 weeks shoot; on Bassem Fayad's personal documentary. Will end on the first week of August. More informations later on...

- 2 TVC Directed by Mahmoud Hojeij: one for El Safir (newspaper) and the other for Kafa (human rights organization).
Production sound recording and sound design.

- Sound mixing of Halim Sabagh's documentary.

PS: Going on Vacation during September! Might come back around the 28th...
Enjoy yours! :)

June Up-date

2011-06-23T09:00:00.000-07:00

Shooting a historical documentary from 26th till the 29th in north Lebanon, for the director Fadi Nasr el din.

Shot 1 day in Beirut, a short movie by the director Ritesh Batra .

hehe.... And I just realized I have a page on IMdb...

39secondes

2011-06-06T04:56:00.000-07:00

April-May:
2 months on the feature shoot: '39 seconds'
Directed by Lara Saba, Produced and written by Nibal Arakji.
a Dream Box production...
The official web page.

9 days in Berlin

2011-04-01T01:40:00.000-07:00

from the 23rd to the 31st of March.
Last shoot for the "Last days of the city" feature.

Tannoura Maxi Part2

2010-11-30T05:31:00.000-08:00

Came back to beirut on the 22th of November To start on the 23rd. an added shoot for "Tannoura Maxi" Directed by Joe bou eid, and Jana Wehbe on Production.
(That will end with a day on the 5th of Dec.)

Last days (part 3)

2010-11-30T05:27:00.000-08:00

October - November 2010 in Cairo
For the shoot of "Last days of the city" With the director Tamer el Said
We still have 6 days of shoot in Berlin... January hopefully!

September 2010

2010-11-30T05:22:00.000-08:00

20 days of shoot for a documentary directed by Mirna Shbaro for O3 production (Mbc, Arabia TV)
We hopped in with Taxi drivers to visit and discover Lebanon's main religions and places ...
(Still in Editing)

29-30-31July

2010-08-02T14:55:00.000-07:00

3 Days TVC for Telecom services in Koweit.
Directed by Emile Slailaty.
Produced by ABL Films & Atelier Films.

June-July

2010-07-27T07:21:00.000-07:00

-Sound mixing "Under pure blue sea" the video Installation of Lynn Kodeih.

2 post production projects On independent documentaries :
- "Little Rocks" by Tamara Stepanian
&
- "Essay from a room" by Rana Salem

Raw Material

2010-06-14T14:01:00.000-07:00

1 Day of shoot on the 3rd of June for the Documentary "Raw Material" Directed by Christos Karakepelis produced by CL Production.
The documentary was shot in 16mm. Mainly in the city of Tripoli (North Lebanon) And in the Destroyed Palestinian camp of "Nahr El Bared".
Ambiances recorded in Stereo in an ORTF set up with 2 Schoeps MK2.

May update!

2010-06-02T11:46:00.000-07:00

Beirut is welcoming as usual!
Re-arranging my home studio and upgrading. Will post about it when done.

Shot 5 days The Boat show 2010 in Marina Dbayeh for Next Vision Abudhabi.
And
a re-shoot day for Shankaboot Season2 (added scenes actually)

Back to Beirut

2010-05-06T07:35:00.000-07:00

Will be back in Beirut on the 8th.

Spring Awakening

2010-03-27T17:44:00.000-07:00

While Still in Egypt...
2 weeks dedicated to my friend Laila Soliman; Helping her in the theatrical play she's directing.
The play is an Arabic contemporary adaptation of the German writer Frank Wedekind.
Check out the Blog : Spring Awakening Egypt
My role was mainly to Record Mustafa Said (Greatest 3oud player I know) and mix the music with the ambiances and interviews.
Was fun to work on ... the premiere is in few days.

9 days in Baghdad

2010-01-26T04:11:00.000-08:00

We left Cairo on the 6th of January and came back on the 15th.
The visa to shoot in Iraq is not that easy. And you should be aware that if you're there for a period longer then 10days you should do an "Exit Visa" from a security center in Baghdad otherwise you wouldn't be allowed to leave.
The shoot went smoothly. Our Iraqi crew was always overprotective and filled our days in fear. When you have the right security papers you could shoot wherever you like. Sometimes army guys came with us and secured the shoot.
In General the Iraqis where genuine, generous, lovely and very understanding. We where really welcomed everywhere we went ...
Check points are everywhere. we where searched 3 times a day, while we passed 20checkpoint a day or more ...
You loose lots of time in traffic when there's a check point. We lost half a day shoot caused by a curfew where authorities feared an escalade of combats that happened during the night. We where there before Elections so militias where fighting to gain ground ...
Sound Wise Shitty Generators lights up when Electricity cuts; and this happens every 2 hours approximatively.
we're shooting a feature, so there wasn't very good equipment there. Lighting or other...
I had my Block 26 wich worked pretty fine.
And a Last important comment is the way out for the airport: you should think of a margin of 2 to 3 hours for your way there. cause you get stopped and checked more then 5 times. (once by humans, by trained dogs, by Luggage checking, by close search...)
And we waited for 6 hours in the airport cause they couldn't give us the right time flight since it's a bit chaotic at the airport.
PS: Watch out for untrusted people. cause the main danger could come from poor militias who's getting poorer and they're only way to get good money is in Kidnapping.

Great experience, over all. Baghdad is really beautiful, Clean and resistant. Beside everything that's happening there. People are friendly, genuine, and full of life... Reminds me Beirut under siege.

In Egypt!

2009-12-20T03:46:00.000-08:00

In Egypt now and for the next 4 months. For a feature shoot.
My New number here: 00 2 0195560187

Antigone

2009-12-20T03:24:00.000-08:00

Sound Design, Creating Ambient sounds, Drones and textures for the Play "Antigone" by Sophocles.
Directed by Ania Temler.
Greetings to the swiss and Canadian Team!
http://theatreoikos.blogspot.com/

Beirut Wow

2009-12-20T03:19:00.000-08:00

Post production/sound design (without the music) of the documentary "Beirut wow" as "Beirut and" in Arabic. For the Beirut cultural capital; Directed by Fadi Nasreldine.

Research shoot

2009-11-21T07:08:00.000-08:00

6 days of shoot, as research for a documentary that will be completed later; for Little Big Films (France), directed by Flaurence Strauss. On the Iraqui Origins of a christian Lebanese Familly.

Up Grade! :)

2009-10-21T12:41:00.000-07:00

Finally upgraded my Pro tools LE to version 8.0.3 .

And Bought The Complete Production ToolKit - (Which for those who know: I can open OMF files now, I can mix in 5.1 and 7.1) -[post updated in 7/7/2010]

Working on the accoustics now!

23Km

2009-10-13T14:38:00.000-07:00

4 days of shoot on an interesting independent documentary. Between Anjar and Zahle. Directed by Noura Kevorkian and produced by SixIsland (Canada) www.sixisland.com

PSA for UNICEF

2009-10-13T14:28:00.001-07:00

4 days in Beirut and a day in Amman(Jordan).

Will work on post for that one soon.

Egypt?

2009-09-29T15:49:00.000-07:00

The second part of the shoot is postponed to the first week of December.

http://lastdaysofthecity.com/under/

September recap

2009-09-27T12:27:00.000-07:00

-Advertising: 3 days shoot.

-Sound designed an audio installation for Goethe institute Cairo with Laila Soliman and the marvelous Oud player Mustafa Said.

-Helping Line Kodeih in sound designing a sound track for her Masters!

-MixDown of a documentary on Talal Salman directed by Mahmoud hojeij.

Children of the revolution

2009-08-10T03:04:00.000-07:00

A very interesting Documentary shoot! Between Lebanon and Jordan.

from the 15th to the 20th Aug.

Rather not talk about the subject! :)

It's an E2 production(UK).

BBC Documentary shoot

2009-07-15T09:36:00.000-07:00

Booked for the 16, 17, 18, 19th of July on a Documentary shoot in Beirut.

The shoot is produced by Uproar production (UK).

(The Real... Beirut. 3 Lebanese talents showing they're favorite places in Beirut)

"The Real...Beirut" is being broadcast on BBC World News on Saturday 3rd October at 09:30 GMT and 17:30 GMT and on Sunday 4th October at 01:30 GMT and 14:30 GMT.

End of june Update

2009-06-27T01:40:00.000-07:00

- Documentary shooting on the 29-30 of June.

- Done with Jana Wehbe's project. the final version of Zahr el Baylasan will be delivered today.

- As for Egypt: We didn't find an agreement. But still, the trip was cool. Egypt is a Nice experience!

Egypt

2009-06-03T03:10:00.000-07:00

Going back to Egypt, for a week starting from the 7th of June.
Another Sound Design project. Will give you more infos when I'll have them!

Sound Designing Jana's project

2009-06-03T03:08:00.000-07:00

3 days without sleep to deliver the first mix of Jana's "Zahr el Baylasan".

ProTools Up and running!

2009-05-28T14:23:00.001-07:00

My Digi003 (factory) with protools 7.4 is up and running in my new place...
On Genelec wheels! :)
Will upgrade to 8.0 soon! :D

Back to Beirut

2009-05-07T04:42:00.000-07:00

Organizing my life back here...
Going back to Egypt for 3 months in September 2009.

Cairo

2009-05-02T09:50:00.000-07:00

In Cairo since January 2009
shooting Last days of the city...
Website: http://lastdaysofthecity.com/under/

List of Equipment

2009-05-02T06:45:00.000-07:00

- Sound Devices 744T (4 tracks recorder)
- Sound Devices 442 (4 channels mixer)
- Schoeps CMIT5U (Shotgun)
- 2 x Schoeps Mk2 Stereo paired
- Schoeps CMC6 Mk41
- Schoeps CMC6 Mk4
- Sanken CUB-01 (Boundary mic)
- AKG C535eb (hand held mic)
- 3 wireless Lectrosonics (New generation)
with 3 Sanken cos11 Lavalier mics.
- 1 Sennheiser Transmitter ew300 and 2 Sennheiser receivers ew300 IEM with headphones
(for monitoring, ex: director and script)
- Sony PCM-D50 with windjammer and accessories.
- 5pin Lemo Cable for Timecode sync. (works mainly with RED)
+ All the accessories needed for the mics as Boom poles, 2 x Kitcool, Rycotes, wind jammer, 2 x Osix, denecke(phantom feeder), 2 Porta barce bags and the cables of course.

(And I do work only with rechargeable batteries!)

Victor Bresse CV08

2009-05-02T06:28:00.001-07:00

Victor Bresse

Ballouneh, Lebanon

Email: Victor.Bresse@gmail.com

http://vic-soundonly.blogspot.com

Contact #: +9613487292

Education

Graduated in “ Sound Design” at The Trebas Institute – Montreal Canada (2006)
FrontPage 2001 , 3D Studio Max r3 (Advanced) – A.L.L.C (2001)
Electronics, I.U.T de Nice , Faculté des sciences- France (1996)

Work Experience

2009

Sound Engineer on a documentary produced by E2 production(UK) Directed by Shane O'sulivan shot in Beirut and Amman.
Sound Engineer on a documentary for BBC produced by Uproar production (UK).
(WIP) Sound Engineer on an independent Feature shot in Egypt and Directed by Tamer el Said. http://lastdaysofthecity.com/under/

2008

Sound Engineer on the Jordan crew of the documentary “Life after death” produced by Visionaire Media.
Sound Engineer on a documentary shot by the director Sofiane Bel eid between 8 Arab countries for O3 production & El Arabiya TV.
Sound designer on a commercial for human rights.
Worked with my protools station on the post production audio for the Lebanese feature “Tannoura Maxi”.
Sound engineer on a documentary for Qatar TV, on the reconstruction of the villages in south Lebanon.
Some Commercials shot in 35 with several production houses in Lebanon
Sound Engineer on the American movie shot in Lebanon; “Black Line – The Beirut Contract” directed by Christian Johnston and produced by Nabil Issa.
Sound Engineer on an independent movie directed by Mary Jordan.

2007

Sound Engineer on a student master’s short movie shot in 16mm, “Tannoura Maxi” by the upcoming director Joseph Bou Eid for the Saint Joseph University (I.E.S.A.V.).
Boom Operator on the Pepsi Arabic Feature Film “Bahr Ilnojoum” Produced by Signature for Pepsi.
Sound Engineer on an independent movie shot in HD, “The two Brothers” Directed by Fouad El Khoury.
Sound Engineer and music composer for 10 UNIFIL spots, explaining the role of UNIFIL in south Lebanon with Raffic Ali Ahmad, directed by Ramin Francis Assadi.

2006

Sound Engineer & assistant on Local and International documentaries and segments for several TV Stations; (News Time, BBC, France24, Radio Canada)
Many small interview Jobs for Arabiya TV as an audio engineer.

2005

Workshop on Max/Msp IRCAM software. Creation of an interactive audio-video platform.
Sound engineer on a documentary on Samir kassir a professor of history at Saint-Joseph University and journalist for An Nahar by Wajdi Elian.
Sound engineer on “Inter-faith dialogue” a didactical movie on dialogues.

2004

Sound engineer, composer and mastering for the documentary directed by Wajdi Elian “Taste of Olives” Broadcasted on El-Arabia.
Sound engineer for the series “Across the Med.” Staged by O3 Production for Al-Arabiya TV station
Soundscaping and performing “Numbers”; a photographic exposition by Caroline Tabet & Joanna Andraos.( Beirut-Lebanon & Lille-France)

Musical Experience

2006

Performed three Electro-techno live acts at The Basement club; Beirut.
Mastering of 3 rock songs from the Lebanese band “The New Government”.

2003

Created our personal concept album “Mictlan” with Jawad Nawfal which took us 3 years to make was produced by Isolate records (U.S.A) in 2006, and was Launched into the market by 2007.
Collaborated in soundscaping the short movie “Faim de communication” with Jawad Nawfal and the director Caroline Tabet.
8 years of Mixing on vinyl’s.
Created the Art Core group (2Dj’s,2 Vj’s and an Art team)

2000-2001

Organized events such as The Key of square at the new souk of Beirut; ‘The mirror dance’ at the Dome Beirut, and ‘Accident in Paradise: Beirut’ at the Grand theatre, Beirut.

Computer literacy

Languages

Arabic (Fluent)

French (Fluent)

English (Good)

Reference available upon request