How to Become a Freelancer – December Update

December 7, 2025December 14, 2025 Christy.E.SLeave a comment

Intro:
Have finished editing everything from the film course! (Except for one where my video files got corrupted.) As I currently only have the free version of Vimeo, I’ll have to switch the Brighton School documentary with the film Somewhere Below. I do think this is a better example of my work, as it showcases my screenwriting as well as editing and sound skills.

I also have a version of the film that uses the song that inspired it (Grand Hotel by Regina Spektor), but the one I’m uploading uses good old royalty-free music from the Adobe library!

Have two sound recording jobs lined up for the new year – one without a definite date yet, and the other filming one weekend in March. The one in March will be my first profit share job – which essentially means I will get paid if the film makes a profit (and not if it doesn’t). This is a step up from the expenses only ones I’ve been doing so far!

So on to the update!

Scripts Update:
Put Last Witch in Swanage into BBC Writersroom. I edited it a bit, but not too much before submitting.

The as yet unnamed 1960s pilot is definitely the script I’ll be submitting to most competitions next year, just as soon as I think of a title.

My goal for 2026 is to contact agents. I have a big enough portfolio of scripts now that I can do this.

Things Learnt:
Tailored cover letters in job applications can make a big difference. I knew this already from when I was a retail manager and in charge of hiring new staff. I was much less likely to interview the people who sent generic applications! However, I think it is even more true in crew jobs. I have had three jobs offered to me without an interview, just based on my cover letters being tailored to the job and person I am applying to work with. While part of this might be a scramble to fill roles as the shotting dates get close, it is also clearly making an impact on the hirers to see that I’ve read about the film and found out their name before applying.

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The Legend of Aramelle – Episode 12 Sound Effects

September 6, 2025August 31, 2025 Christy.E.S1 Comment

As someone interested in sound recording in general, I thought it would be a good idea to combine the credits I have to include for the sound effects in each episode with information of why I chose them, plus how I edited them.

Of course it would be in the final episode of the series that I had the most trouble with the audio! It seems that one microphone wasn’t working correctly so two actors lines were extremely quiet. I had to isolate their audio and edit them on their own track to make it audible. I’ve edited it as best I could, and it works pretty well, it just has the unfortunate side effect that there’s some background interference audible in their lines, as a result of it being heightened. It sounds a little bit like wind though, so as they’re all outside or on mountains, if you use your imagination it’s not so bad!
Plus, I wanted to make sure it was audible as some of the lines lost were important to the future plot!

Here is the full list of sound effects including where I got them from, plus what the original script called for.

Mixed Sound Effects:
Walking through prison corridors: Witch Princess Gamelan Melody mixed with Water dripping in cave freesound and Cowboy boots walking (Adobe)

Adobe Sound Effects used:
Liquid Water River flowing water – River
Coin Flip and Catch Ringing Spin – Jewel
Foley Cinder Block Sand Scrapes – Cave moves position
Liquid Water Water Ballon Dropped in Water – Spoon dropped in cauldron
Foley Coin Moving in Hand – King Gideon gets money out
Ambience Ocean Shore – Ship in bay by Isle of the Sirens

BBC Sound Effects used:
Ship creaking: Thames Sailing Barge, Atmosphere Below Deck Under Sail, With Creaking Wood. (Recorded On Board S.B. Pudge.) (Bought)
Doors Prison Cell – Prison Door Cell, opened and shut (Bought) – Door to Prison opened and closed
Boats Rowboats Punting – Needed a noise of driftwood to show what Barry is floating down the river on. (Bought)

Pro sound effects used:
Whistler Mountain Canada Light Buffeting Wind – mountain ambience (Bought)
Sparkles Glistening Metallic Swells – Sound of jewel map being projected. (Bought)
Sucky Woosh – Noise for the ghosts method of travel and appearance – more will be revealed how this works in series 2! (Bought)

Cast for:
Ship onto Table out of pocket – Aramelle takes jewel out of pocket
Crew Cheering
Crew executing orders
The “Woo” that Orson says was supposed to be another round of the crew cheering, but realised in editing that as they’ve just gone off to execute their orders, it didn’t make sense, but Orson was still there, so he could cheer for Aramelle all by himself.

Music by Jean Loup-Pinson:
The Village Krumhorn
Grim Reaper theme

Freesound for:
Cauldron bubbling – Water Bubbling – Same as last episode. water bubbling by ultraaxvii — https://freesound.org/s/591151/ — License: Creative Commons 0

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The Legend of Aramelle – Episode 12

September 6, 2025September 6, 2025 Christy.E.SLeave a comment

In this Episode:
George Coyne played Orson
Georgia Faye played Persephone
Liam Harkins played Barry and Potion Man
Tayla Kenyon played Clive, King Gideon and Robin
Mariana Sa Sousa played Aramelle
Am Stubberfield played Grim Reaper and Mountain guard

Social Media:
Show email: thelegendofaramellecasting@gmail.com
Writer: Christy Sago: Bluesky: @christywrites.bsky.social
Producer: Kate Delong: Instagram: @kate.delong.creates
George Coyne: Instagram: @jorge_pereira8890
Tayla Kenyon: Twitter: @taylakenyon
Liam Harkins: Instagram: @liammharkins
Mariana Sa Sousa: Instagram: @marianasasousa123
Am Stubberfield: Instagram: @brumble_hag
Composer: Jean Loup-Pinson: Instagram: @jlpinsonmusic

Sound effects:
Jean Loup-Pinson composed the music.
His website is: www.jeanlouppinson.com/
Sound effects for this episode are from BBC Sound Effects Library, Adobe Sound Effects, Freesound.org, Pro Sound Effects and the cast themselves.
Full credits for the sound effects as well as more information on the writing, recording and editing of this episode can be found here.

Questions that still need to be answered: What happened to Captain Liam? We haven’t seen him since the mountain prison, has he gone to find his wife? What is Aramelle’s plan with the sirens? Why can Orson see a figure on the Isle of the Sirens while no-one else can? Is it to do with the voice he heard in the grasslands? And the most important un-answered question of all: What happened to Orson’s sword? The enchanted one he stole of the suit of armour? Is it at the bottom of the lake in Aramelle’s kingdom?

The Legend of Aramelle will return! ~~(When I’ve written the scripts.)~~

Thank you for listening!

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The Legend of Aramelle – Episode 11

August 23, 2025August 17, 2025 Christy.E.SLeave a comment

In this Episode:
George Coyne played Orson
Georgia Faye played Persephone
Tayla Kenyon played Clive and Beryl
Mariana Sa Sousa played Aramelle
Am Stubberfield played Grim Reaper and Mountain guard

What do you think Aramelle saw in the cauldron?

Thank you for listening!

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The Legend of Aramelle – Episode 11 Sound Effects

August 23, 2025August 17, 2025 Christy.E.S1 Comment

Here is the full list of sound effects including where I got them from, plus what the original script called for.

Adobe Sound Effects used:
Multimedia Internet CD Rom Flash Beep High Pitch 33 – Orson arrives in cabin
Liquid Water River flowing water – River
Weapon Sword Hit Metal Off Center 01 – Guard bars entry
Concrete shoes walking – Walking through prison
Human crowd mumbling – Aramelle sees future in cauldron
Impact Metal Bang 01 – cell door opened

Pro sound effects used:
Whistler Mountain Canada Light Buffeting Wind – mountain ambience
Prison Gate Metal Gate Open Close
Crowd Foot Stomps Interior Reverberant Theater – crowd marching
Bells Cathedrals – ringing wedding bells as Aramelle looks in cauldron
Pot Hit Metal Clang Impact – Aramelle knocks cauldron

Cast for:
Normal Squawk 2 – went for a different option on the squawking as I didn’t think Liam would turn into the exact same bird!

Music by Jean Loup-Pinson:
The Village Krumhorn
Grim Reaper theme

Mixed sound effects:
Scolex water dripping in cave – freesound mixed with Gamelan melody by Jean

Freesound for:
Cauldron – 93214__freed__iging_21a_the-cauldron – freesound Cauldron a looking in: IGing_21a_The Cauldron.mp3 by Freed — https://freesound.org/s/93214/ — License: Attribution 4.0 – used this for the beginning of the magic when Aramelle looks in the cauldron. Only used the first few seconds and looped it.

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The Legend of Aramelle – Episode 10

August 9, 2025August 3, 2025 Christy.E.SLeave a comment

In this Episode:
George Coyne played Orson
Georgia Faye played Persephone
Liam Harkins played Giant Gary
Tayla Kenyon played dead guard, King Gideon and Voice
Mariana Sa Sousa played Aramelle
AM Stubberfield played Grin Reaper

What does find roots mean?

Thank you for listening!

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The Legend of Aramelle – Episode 10 Sound Effects

August 9, 2025August 3, 2025 Christy.E.S1 Comment

Here is the full list of sound effects including where I got them from, plus what the original script called for.

Mixed sound effects for:
Persephone’s theme and Grim’s Theme – mixed together for when Persephone takes Orson away

BBC for:
Persephone and Grim row across the river of Styx – Boats: Punting – Punting: Boarding and clambering about (Bought)
Ship creaking: Thames Sailing Barge, Atmosphere Below Deck Under Sail, With Creaking Wood. (Recorded On Board S.B. Pudge.) (Bought)

Freesound for:
Underworld ambience: The Underworld by erlipresidente — https://freesound.org/s/415886/ — License: Attribution 4.0 – Ideally I wanted something with a few more screams in the background, but this does do a good job of sounding sufficiently otherworldy and not likely to get kixed up with the Soothsayers Cave from the previous episode!
Underworld crowd: Walla Crowd Inside French by Salomé_Lubczanski — https://freesound.org/s/733849/ — License: Creative Commons 0

Adobe Sound Effects for:
Flood water – Liquid Water River Flowing Water
Persephone unrolls parchment and Gideon signs paper– Foley Paper Wax Paper Movements
Orson walks alone – Foley footstep human walking through tall grass
Orson begins to teleport – Multimedia Internet CD-Rom Flash Beep High Pitch 33

Music:
The Village Krumhorn stem – to move between the different sections of the scene
Grim’s Theme – Grim takes souls, also when Grim arrives to see Persephone again

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The Legend of Aramelle -Episode 9 Sound Effects

July 26, 2025July 24, 2025 Christy.E.S1 Comment

Here is the full list of sound effects including where I got them from, plus what the original script called for.

Mixed sound effects for:
Exterior Castle Courtyard – Crowd Exterior Daytime Courtyard…Blenheim Palace (Prosound: Bought) mixed with Pirate’s in crowd – Pirate Murmur Constant Calm… (Prosound: Bought). Both of these together sounds enough like a crowd, though the crowd does sound annoyingly distracted. Though I do like the fading up of the pirates, as you can hear an “Arr!” just at the moment that “I can’t see no pirates either,” is said!
Torch gets knocked over – Fire torch burn in wind, short (Prosound: Bought) Impact firewood grab (Adobe) – mixed these two together. It was too much noise for the fire to be burning the whole way through, so added it jsut before it gets knocked over.
Crowd fights – Episode 9 general screaming fighting (Cast) mixed with Crowd panics – Human crowd footsteps running and screaming (Adobe) and Fire burning – Torch fire burning roar intermittent crackles (Prosound: Bought). Wanted quite a few noises here so you can tell it’s pandemonium and no-one knows whatr’s about to happen at this point!

Cast for:
Soothsayer Faints – Episode 9 Soothsayer fainting
Soothsayer wakes up – Episode 9 Soothsayer wakes up
Crowd panics – Episode 9 crowd panics
Orson gets hit – not a sound effect, just good acting!

Prosound for:
Soothsayer’s cave – Breaths Creepy Ghostly Wind – (Bought). I originally wanted a more cave-y type setting for this, but it sounded too similar to the dungeons, think this makes it seem more like the soothsayer is sitting on top of a mountain!
Aramelle and Gideon have tug of war with drum – Swing Set Swing (Bought). Could not for the life of me find anything that sounded like a drum being pushed back and forth, think this works though as it’s only a few seconds.
Giant pours water over fire – Water pour –(Bought).
Flood water – Water lap heavy sloshy crashing tidewater – (Bought).
Aramelle puts Orson on tree branch – Water splash tree branch drop – (Bought).
Aramelle bangs drum and giants hear – Distant Booming Muffled Thumps – (Bought). Very difficult to find drum noises, it turns out! This one works well, as I’ve added an echo and slowed it down.

BBC used for:
Dungeon door opening and closing – Doors Prison Cell Open and Shut (Bought) – the same as used in episode 3

Adobe Sound Effects for:
Leaving soothsayer’s cave – Foley Footsteps Cowboy Boots Debris Dirt Walking – Needed something so you’d know they’d left the cave before the soothsayer woke back up.
Orson gives sword to Aramelle – Weapon broad sword hit metal tink
Aramelle fights – Impact sword impacts

Music:
The Village Krumhorn stem
Persephone theme

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The Legend of Aramelle Sound Effects – Episode 8

July 12, 2025July 10, 2025 Christy.E.S1 Comment

Here is the full list of sound effects including where I got them from, plus what the original script called for.

Cast for:
Bird Squawks – Captain Liam answering Aramelle’s questions.

Prosound for:
Waves, ship creaking – ship – Thames Sailing Barge, Atmosphere Below Deck Under Sail, With Creaking Wood. (Recorded On Board S.B. Pudge.) (Bought).
Sparkles Glistening Metallic Swells – Jewel map being projected. I did want to use this for the rest of the scene, but it was distracting so I faded it down after a few loops.

BBC used for:
Doors Prison Cell Open and Shut (Bought) – Dungeon door opening and closing – the same as used in episode 3

Adobe Sound Effects for:
Multimedia Internet CD-Rom Flash Electronic – Spell – The same sound as used for the Witch Princess’s spells in episode 3
Foley Prop Coin Flip and Catch Ringing Spin – Captain Liam pressing the corners of the jewel down
Foley Footsteps Cowboy Boots Debris Dirt Walking – Barry leaves – Needed something to show he was gone, before the door noise again.
Household Wood Old Wood Door Close – Door closes – Needed a sound to show that the guards had entered the shop.
Foley Coins Moving in Hand – Captain Liam hands coins to the potion man
Weapon Sword Remove From Sheath – Guards remove swords from sheaths

Mixed Sound Effects:
Oven Door Fall Open Metal Rattle (Prosound), mixed with Household Book Fall to Ground (Adobe) – Cage door opened – the hardest thing to find for this episode. I was searching for rattling cages and got nowhere. Think I searched for Metal rattle to get this one.
Water dripping in cave (Freesound) mixed with Witch Princess Gamelan Melody Stem – Dungeon atmosphere

Freesound for:
Cauldron bubbling – Water Bubbling – Same as last episode. water bubbling by ultraaxvii — https://freesound.org/s/591151/ — License: Creative Commons 0

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The Legend of Aramelle – Episode 8

July 12, 2025July 19, 2025 Christy.E.SLeave a comment

In this episode:
George Coyne played Orson
Georgia Faye played Persephone and Guard 3
Liam Harkins played Captain Liam, The Potion Man, and Barry
Tayla Kenyon played Guard 1 and The Prisoner
Mariana Sa Sousa played Aramelle
Am Stubberfield played Guard 2

What do you think Aramelle’s plan is with the drum?

Thank you for listening!

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The Legend of Aramelle Episode 7 – Sound Effects

June 28, 2025June 26, 2025 Christy.E.S1 Comment

Here is the full list of sound effects including where I got them from, plus what the original script called for.

Cast for:
Bird Squawks – Captain Liam answering Aramelle’s questions.

Prosound for:
Waves, ship creaking – ship – Thames Sailing Barge, Atmosphere Below Deck Under Sail, With Creaking Wood. (Recorded On Board S.B. Pudge.) (Bought) – This sound has really paid for itself at this point!

Adobe Sound Effects for:
Weapon Broad Sword Hit Metal Tink – Aramelle catches sword – A surprisingly difficult sound to find someone catching a sword, so this was the closest!
Foley Footsteps Cowboy Boots Walk By – Clive leaves – Strangely only the cowboy boots sounded like normal shoes…
Household Wood Old Wood Door Close – Door closes – Wanted a sound that could be heard over the market atmosphere as it would srtop abruptly when the door was closed.
Foley Coin Remove Coins From Pocket – Aramelle takes coins out her pocket
Foley Coins Moving in Hand – Aramelle hands coins to the potion man
Weapon Sword Remove From Sheath – Orson removes sword from sheath – same as previous episodes and reversed for him putting it back away.

Mixed Sound Effects:
Adobe: Foley Footstep Hard Sole Run on Wood mixed with Weapon Sword hits Sword – Clive runs at Aramelle – and again the second time. I’m only disappointed that I didn’t think to record Clive screaming as he ran, so he attacks silently.
Adobe: Weapon Broad Sword Slide off Sword mixed with Cast: C falls over – Aramelle knocks Clive over.

BBC Sound Effects:
1. Foreign Atmospheres – Covent Garden Market, horses & carts: Horses, villagers, market traders. (Bought) Same as in episode one.

Freesound for:
Cauldron bubbling – Water Bubbling – Same as at The Witch Princess’s castle but without the stirring spoon this time as it was a bit too distracting for the atmosphere of a tiny shop. water bubbling by ultraaxvii — https://freesound.org/s/591151/ — License: Creative Commons 0

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The Legend of Aramelle Episode 7

June 28, 2025June 26, 2025 Christy.E.SLeave a comment

In this episode:
George Coyne played Orson
Georgia Faye played Persephone
Liam Harkins played the Potion man and bird sound effects
Tayla Kenyon played Clive and Market Drummer
Mariana Sa Sousa played Aramelle
Am Stubberfield played Crew member and Market Seller

Why was Captain Liam banished?

Thank you for listening!

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The Legend of Aramelle – Episode 6

June 14, 2025June 14, 2025 Christy.E.SLeave a comment

In this episode:
George Coyne played Orson
Georgia Faye played Persephone
Liam Harkins played Barry, Giant Gunther and Giant Gary
Tayla Kenyon played Giant George and Clive
Mariana Sa Sousa played Aramelle
Am Stubberfield played Giant Dave and Giant Damien
Everyone played – Giants voting

Sound effects:
Jean Loup-Pinson composed the theme music, scene change music, Giant Country theme and Persephone’s theme.
His website is: www.jeanlouppinson.com/
Sound effects for this episode are from BBC Sound Effects Library, Adobe Sound Effects, Freesound.org, Pro Sound Effects and the cast themselves.
Full credits for the sound effects as well as more information on the writing, recording and editing of this episode can be found here .

There’s a second half!?

Thank you for listening!

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The Legend of Aramelle – Episode 6 Sound Effects

June 14, 2025June 13, 2025 Christy.E.S1 Comment

Here is the full list of sound effects including where I got them from, plus what the original script called for.

Mixed Sound Effects:
Giant’s Dungeon: Scolex_Water-dripping-in-cave (free sound) + Gamelan Melody (Jean) – this is the same mix I used in the Witch Princess episodes.
 Giant Gunther pushes boat out to sea, crew falls over: BBC Boats Sailing Dinghy sail past left to right Recorded on shore – (Bought) mixed with Clive falls over by the cast.

Adobe Sound Effects used for:
Giant Footsteps: Foley Footsteps Soft Sole Work Boots Walking in Cement – used this multiple times in the episode for all the giant walking sounds except for:
Footsteps leave – by the cast – used this right at the end of the first segment as it sounds rather like a door being closed at the end of a long hallway! AKA them getting locked in giant prison!
Orson takes out sword: Weapon Sword Remove from Sheath – Same as in episode one, and with the sound being reversed for when the sword gets put back away. 
Paper rustling: Foley Paper Wax Movements – surpisingly hard to find a sound that worked for the huge manuscript the treaty was written on. The wax paper rustling sounded the most realistic.

Prosound used for:
Giant Rats: Rats Biting Cloth, CU, Licking and Gnawing, Short Sniffles, Small Fast Movements, Hissing, Rustling Pro Sound.
Giant Gunther opening drawers:  Cabinet door, kitchen, wood, Open and Close, Multiple Times – Pro Sound.
Waves, ship creaking – ship – Thames Sailing Barge, Atmosphere Below Deck Under Sail, With Creaking Wood. (Recorded On Board S.B. Pudge.) (Bought) – That good old Thames Barge returns!

Freesound for:
Pulling Out Wooden Chair and Sitting Down – needed a noise for the giants arriving into the council chamber.
Pulling Out Wooden Chair and Sitting Down.wav by F.M.Audio — https://freesound.org/s/547735/ — License: Attribution 4.0

Cast for:
Int. Pocket
Ship out of pocket onto table – used for when they arrive into the council chamber, simply to signify that they’ve been taken back out the pocket!
Takes drum out of pocket: Ship out of pocket – when Gunther gives the drum to Aramelle
Clive and Aramelle get up: C and A get up – after they have fallen over and makes a good segway into Aramelle asking Clive what he knew about the mutiny.

Music:
Council chamber ambience – Giant Country Strings Stem and later Giant Country theme – the strings worked well for the small segments when we were going back and forth, but did the whole theme later on during the negotiations, looping the last part as it gave the most energy as the negotiations came to a close. It seemed strange to me to use this, but as I couldn’t find any medieval office ambience to use instead, I think it works well!
Drum noise – Giant Country Percussions Stem – just used when Gunther hands the drum to Aramelle and Orson takes it away.

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The Legend of Aramelle – Episode 4

May 17, 2025May 15, 2025 Christy.E.SLeave a comment

In this episode:
George Coyne played Orson
Georgia Faye played Persephone
Liam Harkins played Barry, Guard and Giant Gunther
Tayla Kenyon played The Witch Princess, King Gideon and Clive
Mariana Sa Sousa played Aramelle
Am Stubberfield played Various Crew Members and Birds

If you failed to take my advice on covering the ears of any suits of armour in your household last episode, please be advised that wool of bat will be required to stop them now.* Wool of Bat is dangerous when being harvested from the bat itself.

Thank you for listening!