Contact Ellie Russell Film and Television Sound Design and Sound Editing

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Contact Ellie Russell,
Film and Television Sound Designer and Sound Editor


Iberico Ltd.
M: 07766 312049
P: 01446 710020
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About Ellie Russell Film and Television Sound Designer

MY HISTORY - From then until now

George Mossman, Bedfordshire.

My introduction to the film industry was made at the tender age of twelve when I worked for the renowned coachman George Mossman. His company provided horses, carriages and an assortment of feathered or woolly beasts for the film and television industry. Although I was totally unimpressed at the time, I was lucky enough to work on epics such as Doctor Frankenstein with James Mason, Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky, various 'Carry On' films and Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon starring Ryan O'Neal.

Ridley Scott Associates (RSA), London.

After completing a secretarial course in Oxford I began work in Ridley Scott's company 'The Film Editors' who were based in Soho, London. My job as general 'go-for' included acting as projectionist and making up show-reels as well as other duties such as general runner to and from the various advertising agencies and Rank Laboratories in Wardour Street with the daily rushes. At this time Ridley Scott was making 'The Duelist' and afterwards began shooting the film he is probably best known for, 'Alien'.

Working amongst greats such as directors Ridley and Tony Scott, editor of the Duelist Pam Powers, and sound and film editor for Alien and Blade Runner, Terry Rawlings, gave me a taste of the editor's craft at the sharp end.

Plymouth College of Art and Design. Plymouth.

Despite having a tenuous background in film, my interest in photography took me to Plymouth College where I became a student on an IIP (Institute of Incorporated Photographers) stills photography course. After my first year of study, the college was accidently given the opportunity to take part in the Fuji Film Scholarship where students were given enough Fuji film stock to make a ten-minute film of their choice.

With no sound recording equipment and an ancient Bolex camera we opted for a music-driven film on water-sports. I part-directed the film and was also editor for both picture and sound. My days spent staring over the shoulders of the film editors at Ridley Scott's stood me in good stead. Shooting the film was quite daunting for the inexperienced team, however we managed to gain third prize overall and our cameraman Scott Tibbles won the Arriflex Camera prize (even though we had used a mute Bolex with the lens constantly falling out). Through this little film I was offered a job at HTV in Wales.

HTV, Wales.

I joined HTV (now ITV) in Cardiff as a trainee assistant film editor under the eagle eyes of Terry Elgar and Viv Grant, gods of the editing world in HTV. My first taste of sound editing was on the drama series Return To Treasure Island starring Brian Blessed with music by Terry Oldfield.

During my years at HTV I was required to attend numerous post-sync sessions, and on one memorable occasion I had to attend a post-sync session with a very young, undiscovered Jude Law who was playing an Italian policeman in a TV movie called The Marshal starring Alfred Molina and Gemma Craven.

I also worked as film editor on two episodes of 'The Dragon Has Two Tongues - A History of Wales' and also edited a couple of episodes of 'We are Seven', a charming drama series for HTV directed by Alan Clayton.

While at HTV I took some unpaid leave to travel to Portugal, buy a couple of Lusitano horses (one of which was unbacked), and ride down through Portugal to raise money for charity.

I rode from Caldas da Rainha to Evora and eventually transported the horses and myself back to the UK across the Bay of Biscay on a ship carrying enough explosives to atomise us all.

Before leaving HTV and turning freelance I was elevated to the only staff sound editor position in HTV's history where I continued to track-lay the majority of the drama output for HTV Wales.

Freelance Sound Editor and Sound Designer

Throughout the last fifteen years or more as a freelance sound editor and designer I have worked for companies such as Rondo, Green Bay, Boomerang, Gorilla, Derwen, Sounds in Motion and Sound works and have worked on numerous drama productions for BBC Wales as a sound editor.

More recently I have been sound designer with Dai Shell's Audio Post Production Services, DAPPS where Dai, sound recordist Ian Sands and I picked up a BAFTA Cymru for Best Sound 2013 on Rondo's Gospel of Us.

I have indeed been lucky enough to work on some prestigious dramas, creative cartoons and beautifully crafted documentaries

Bringing your film to life through sound

BAFTA Cymru 2013 Awards Night

The Gospel of Us producer Eryl Huw Phillips (left) with BAFTA winners Michael Sheen (Best Actor) and me (Ellie Russell) and dubbing mixer Dai Shell (Best Sound) after a glittering awards ceremony at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff

Indian Doctor series III is finished and on air

Last year I took a snap of actor Sanjeev Bhaskar and dubbing mixer Dai Shell relaxing after a post sync session for Indian Doctor