Kevin Harper
Sound
Contact details:
For Technical & Postproduction Staff enquiries please call Irene or Marlen on (+44) 020 7287 6110.For Graphic Designers & Production Staff enquiries please call John on (+44) 020 7494 4922
Or info@tovs.co.uk
Profile :
Kevin has twenty years experience in producing professional broadcast audio, but maintains a fresh and focused attitude to his work. He is skilled in studio operations as an A2, in multi-mic and multi-camera environments, and has also mixed on current affairs and reality programmes. He has worked on OBs as diverse as church services, rugby, and LE.The majority of his work is in the field of single-camera documentary, factual and reality television.
"I love being involved in Arts and Science based programmes, but there again, I enjoy working on people centered programmes, and I like to play my part in putting contributors at ease, to whatever degree it's appropriate to the production."
Kevin is also a Fisher Boom operator, and has been the sound recordist on a number of 16 and 35 mm drama shorts.
Selected Credits :
| Home Under the Hammer | Property | Lion TV / BBC | Sound - On location |
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| Seven Man-Made Wonders of the South | Documentary | BBC | Sound - On location |
| Trafalgar 200 | Events | BBC | Sound Recordist |
| The Sky At Night | Events | BBC | Sound Recordist |
| The Biggest Loser UK | Reality TV | Shine / Living TV | Sound Recordist |
| Here's Looking At You | Leisure | BBC UK Style | Sound Recordist |
| Survivor | Reality TV | ITV Malaysia / Panama | Sound Recordist |
| Southern Eye | News | BBC | Sound Recordist |
| Birdwatch | Animal | BBC | Sound Recordist |
| Watercolour Challenge | Arts | Channel 4 | Sound Recordist |
| BT Global Challenge | Documentary | ITV | Sound Recordist |
| UK Snooker Championships | Sport | BBC | Sound Recordist |
| Corporate productions | * | Various | Sound Recordist - ...Prudential, De La Rue, IBM, Disney, Psion, Foreign, and Commonwealth Office |
| City Hospital | Daytime | BBC | Sound - OB Technician |
| Sunday Matters | Current Affairs | ITV | Sound - OB Technician |
| Gladiators | Light Entertainment | ITV | Sound - OB Technician |
| Space Cadets, The Satellite Show | Reality TV | Roll to Record / E4 | Sound - OB |
| French Open Tennis Championships | Sport | NBC / Visions | Sound - OB Technician |
| Corporate & satellite linked conferences | * | Various | Sound - OB Technician |
| Sport | Sport | Various | Sound - OB Technician...Cricket, Football, Rugby, Basketball, Polo etc |
| Ambulance | Documentary | Studio Z | Sound Recordist |
| Vet | Documentary | Studio Z | Sound Recordist |
| Phoenix | Film | Super 16 | Sound Recordist - Science Fiction thriller. Dec 1996 |
| Phoebe Langtry | Film | Super 16 | Sound Recordist - Period. Aug 1997 |
| Dead Clean | Film | 35mm | Sound Recordist - Action comedy short. Dec 1997 |
| Me Reach | Film | Super 16 | Sound Recordist - period. July 1998 |
| Dreams | Film | Super 16 | Sound Recordist - June 2000 |
| Groovy Toys | Film | Lucent Technologies | Sound Recordist - 16 mm, Nov 2000 |
| Silent Soul | Film | ITV | Sound Recordist - 16mm, Aug 2001 |
| The Reckoning | Drama | Mark Hill / Artful Dodger / Clip-Joint Films | Sound Recordist - Short Film . Aug 2002 |
| Dogs With Dunbar | Animal | Ark Features / Meridian | Sound Recordist |
| Cat Crazy | * | Ark Features / Carlton | Sound Recordist |
| Question Time | Studio | BBC | Sound - Fisher Boom Op |
| Loud and Clear | Studio | Meridian | Sound - Fisher Boom Op |
| The State We're In | Sitcom | BBC | Sound - Fisher Boom Op |
| The Time, The Place | Studio | ITV | Sound - Fisher Boom Op |
| Packing Them In | Sitcom | Ch4 | Sound - Fisher Boom Op. Live, Multi-camera |
| Man O Man | Quiz / Game Show | Grundy | Sound - A2 |
| Jeopardy | Quiz / Game Show | ITV | Sound - A2 |
| Tell The Truth | Quiz / Game Show | Meridian | Sound - A2 |
| Meridian Tonight | News | Meridian | Sound Mixer |
| Sunday Sports Programme | News | Meridian | Sound Mixer |
| The Biggest Loser | Observational Documentary | - | Sound Mixer |
| Blackwater | Reality TV | BBC | Sound - house mix |
| HOW 2, Terror Towers, Teleganticmegavision | Science & Nature | ITV | Grams Op - using conventional and hard disk based audio recorders and samplers |
| Inside Art | Arts Documentary | Topical Television / ITV Meridian | - - Proposed, produced, written and shot by self. Art Classes in prison. Part one of 3x 30mins part of a series called "The Frame". |
| Stone, Sea and Sky | Arts Documentary | Topical Television / ITV Meridian | - - Stone carving in Dorset. Part 2 of 3 |
| Embassy Court | Arts Documentary | Topical Television / ITV Medidian | - - Artists living in crumbling 1930's modernist building. Part 3 of 3. |
Employment History :
| TVS Television Ltd | Sound - 1984 - 1992. Duties included all aspects of televison sound production: Boom operator on drama and sitcoms. Mixing "promos". Mixing studio-based news magazine. E.N.G dubbing. Drama dubbing assistant. Rigging for music sessions. All floor operations. OB sound assistant for sport, drama, church services etc. Location sound recordist for news and features. |
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Additional Information :
Freelance Sound Recordist on location based programmes for Meridian Broadcasting;Serve You Right, Cyber-Cafe, A Weekend's Work (Topical TV), Good For You, Without Prejudice, Aspinal's Animals, Quids In, Rude Kids ( Ch5, working title), The Frame, Looking For Love, Three Minutes, Street-Wise, Decision Time, That's Esther (ITV), On Your Marks
involving action sequences, interviews, music recordings and playback, secret filming, and assisting with studio based 'visuals' sequences.