Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Sharing first-hand accounts of their work on productions such as HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ Lenny Abrahamson’s ‘Room’, Colm Bairéad’s ‘An Cailín Ciúin’ (The Quiet Girl) and ‘The Favourite’ directed by Yorgos Lanthimos to name but a few, Caoimhe Doyle and Jean McGrath bring with them 25 years’ experience of working within the film and television industry and from The Foley Lab, a sound studio in Wicklow, Ireland.
As part of this event, Caoimhe Doyle and Jean McGrath will give a masterclass workshop where attendees will be invited to perform Foley for a scene from a film and re-create an entire soundscape. Attendees will be guided step by step through various methods of recording and performing realistic sound effects. A screening of the finished sound design will feature at the end of the masterclass workshop.
13:00pm - 14:00pm: Foley Lecture (The Cinema, Leeds School of Arts)
14:30pm - 16:00pm: Foley Masterclass (The Cinema, Leeds School of Arts)
*Please note: one Eventrbite booking gives you access to both programme activities.
Caoimhe Doyle is a Foley artist and co-owner of The Foley Lab, a dedicated Foley studio located in Wicklow, Ireland. She has over 25 years’ experience creating Foley sound effects and footsteps for film, television and video games.
Caoimhe has been nominated three-time for the MPSE Golden Reel Award for her work on Colm Bairéad’s ‘An Cailín Ciúin’, ‘The Favourite’, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and David Cronenberg's ‘Eastern Promises’. Additionally, Caoimhe has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and won a MPSE Golden Reel Award for her work on Game of Thrones: Season 1 in 2011. Further credits include ‘Evil Dead Rise’, ‘Killing of a Sacred Deer’, ‘Normal People’, ‘Conversations With Friends’ and ‘Room’.
Caoimhe received a BA Honours Degree in Film Production from Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design + Technology.
Jean McGrath is a Foley recording mixer at The Foley Lab, She has worked in film sound post production for over 25 years as a Foley recording mixing, ADR mixer, and sound editor.
Recording and mixing Foley in new and diverse ways is a passion of Jeans, collaborating with the Foley artists to capture sound through innovative recording techniques.
Jean studied Music Instrument Technology (Electronics) in London, and in 2017 she was awarded a M.A. degree in Film and Television Studies (hons) from Dublin City University. Jean has worked on a variety of award-winning feature films and TV.
Credits include: ‘An Cailín Ciúin’, ‘The Favourite’, ‘Evil Dead Rise’, ‘Peter Rabbit’, ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’, ‘Lovely Bones’, ‘Killing of a Sacred Deer’, ‘Normal People’, ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Conversations With Friends’ and ‘Room’.
