John Bruner
Animator, Author, Director, Editor, Field Recordist, Filmmaker, Foley Artist, Playwright, Sound Designer, Sound Editor, Sound Mixer, Theatre Director, Visual Effects Artist and Voice Artist
Northampton, Massachusetts
April 2014
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About John
I've Animated some experimental shorts, I've directed a few theater productions and some video projects. I've done voice acting for commercial work, theater, animation, live presentation and film, done work locally, nationally and internationally. I've mixed albums for performers, written several scripts for stage and screen. But none of it is where I thought I was going at the time. The path to my current position started when I was drumming for a few bands in Tulsa, I started connecting equipment, eventually mixing and recording. I had my first experience helping build a studio in the 1980s and worked with some of the up and coming artists in the local scene at the time. The studio was where I imagined I'd go, but I met the Gulager family who was shooting a film. After doing field audio work for film I figured somewhere in this general field was where I was headed. After some personal resettlement to the east coast, I applied to and was accepted to Hampshire College intending to pursue audio recording as a career, but I was drawn to these NEW inventions called Desktop Video and Non Linear Editing. Four years later, having acquired a Degree and found a new focus on the burgeoning field of Desktop Video, I was just dipping my toes into the waters of being a Freelance Editor when my Alma Mater asked me to stick around. Now I have a uniquely wonderful career as 'teaching staff' helping students and faculty with the ever changing landscape of Digital Media Production. Everything from V.R. and game design, to music production, audio recording, live event work, installations, traditional animation, studio design, broadcast production, 3D animation and yes of course Film and Video production. I'd heard the phrase "Jack of all trades, master of none." most of my young life, but I never imagined it could be a career, and a fantastically rewarding one at that. But it does make it very hard to encapsulate, and no, I don't think I've done ANY of those many things listed above, at the highest levels I see and admire in so many artists and educators. Most of my work keeps me in the 'early learner' mode, but I enjoy that. I've got a few things I think are pretty OK, but I feel more like I've been walking a path my whole life that is leading me to a place I had thought I would want to be, but never dreamed was actually possible for me personally to arrive at. At this place, on this path. I feel I am a perpetual student to the wonders of the Universe.
Unique traits: Drummer
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Credits
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Right Ho Jeeves (Adaptation for Stage) (
2015 )
Video by Passport Theater Writer/Director -
Return To Mountain (
2014 )
Documentary by Willmountain Films Voice Over -
Charlie (
2014 )
Theater by Passport Theater Director -
Return To Mountain (
2014 )
Documentary by WIllmountain Films Producer/Editor/Assistant Director -
Hampshire College Digital Lab Design (
2014 )
by Hampshire College Designer/Director -
The Call (
2012 )
Drama by ShatterKind Productions Director/Producer -
The New Mother (
2010 )
Film (short) by Seok Chae Yoon Soundtrack Producer -
Budweiser - "China World Cup Spot" (
2006 )
Commercial by Budweiser Foley -
The Torches of Erin (
2005 )
Drama by Tim O'Neill Special Effects -
The Day After Peace (
2004 )
Documentary by Peace One Day Sound Recordist -
Shanghai Sheraton "In Room Spot" (
2003 )
Commercial by Willmountain Films Editor -
Peace One Day (
2001 )
Documentary by Jeremy Gilley Sound Recordist -
All American Boy (
1999 )
Drama by John Truby Sound Recordist -
"AT&T Cares" spot (
1999 )
Industrial by AT&T Assistant Editor -
The Magic School Bus National Ad Spot (
1998 )
Commercial by Scholastic Director/Editor -
Under the Bed
Film by Aeolan Kelley Audio Recordist
Education
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ITT Technical Institute: Tulsa
(1984-1985) -
Hampshire College
(1984-1985)
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