Evan Menak Email & Phone Number

Burbank, California, United States

-Founding partner of an audio company that specializes in both production and post sound mixing and editing.-Experienced in all facets of production and post production sound, including location mixing, boom operating, Foley, sound effects recording, ADR/voice recording, dialogue editing, music editing, and effects editing.-Experienced in mixing for both stereo and surround sound.-Negotiated and worked with clients of many types of backgrounds and budgets.-Constructed recording and mixing stages at our facility in the Burbank Media District.-Developed and utilized remote workflows enabling the recording, editing and mixing of several podcasts.

Los Angeles, California, United States

-Supervised all voice recordings of an animated horror comedy television show broadcast on FXX and Hulu. Talent included Danny DeVito, Lucy DeVito, Aubrey Plaza, Michael Shannon, Mel Brooks, and many other guest stars.-Assisted directors in keeping track of thousands of lines to record for each episode, and made sure recording sessions were completed on time while making sure directors were satisfied with the recordings they received.-Led a team of audio editors in the creation of audioplays, which was used by the production team to determine rewrites of the screenplays and by the animation team to illustrate the show.-Maintained, organized and indexed the archive of voice recordings, making sure each and every line of dialog was able to be tracked down quickly and easily.-Edited the audioplay of the pilot episode, which helped lead to the show being picked up by FX Networks.

Los Angeles, California, United States

-Edited the audioplay of the pilot of an animated horror comedy television show, which helped lead to the show being picked up by FX Networks.

Greater Los Angeles Area

-QC representative for major motion picture studios including Disney, Universal, Warner Bros, Paramount, and Sony.-Performing quality control on digital and 35mm film prints at Technicolor and Deluxe laboratories for the domestic and international releases of major motion pictures.

-Member of bi-coastal video production company specializing in short form comedy sketches and parodies for television and the web, with features on the Today show, Maury, CollegeHumor.com and Comcast video on-demand.-Responsible for overseeing entire post production process on all videos, designed and implemented workflows for transferring footage and elements between NYC and LA via FTP, naming and ingesting footage into the edit systems, editing from rough cut thru finishing, sound editing, final conforming, exporting, encoding, uploading and delivering.-Logged and captured footage from tape into Avid editing software.-Constantly testing new methods of encoding to get the best picture and sound quality possible while maintaining a reasonable file size.-Enforcing proper shooting techniques while on set to maintain a seamless post production workflow, including maintaining sync between separate camera and sound recorder, shooting for visual effects (such as green screen), and maintaining correct frame rates and sizes.-Webmaster of Sans Pants Productions website.

-Assistant at major NYC design and visual effects studio, clients included AT&T, LG, MTV, ESPN, and U2.-Compressed and posted videos to the web and authored DVDs for client review.-Dubbed and labeled tapes (DigiBeta, D1, D5, Beta SP) for final shipping of spots to agencies, dub houses and broadcast centers.-Made videotape black and coded basics.-Improved communication efficiency between producers and technicians by reformatting work order forms and developing HTML/PHP web interface for producers to submit requests for web postings.-Maintained Filemaker tape library database.-Provided technical support for Autodesk Flame artists, CG artists and designers.-Archived Unix-based Autodesk Flames on a nightly basis to both tape backup and digital file backup.-Assisted Tech Ops Manager and IT Manager with data handling and daily file system archiving.-Assisted the Flame, CG and Design artists and their clients during sessions, including inputs and outputs, web postings, file transfers of EDL and video files, etc.

Hempstead, New York, United States

-Provided assistance to both Systems and Networking department employees.-Went on calls to troubleshoot computer problems for the Hofstra faculty and student body.