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38 S U M M E R 2 0 2 2 I C A S Q U A R T E R L Y 38 38 38 S U M M E R 2 0 2 2 I C A S Q U A R T E R L Y TELEVISION – HALF-HOUR TED LASSO S2 EP. 5 "RAINBOW" by DEVENDRA CLEARY CAS Sometimes a scheduling miracle happens and you get the absolute pleasure of hosting a lively interview with all six of our winners for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing: Television Half Hour. The Ted Lasso sound team consists of production mixer David Lascelles AMPS, re-recording mixers Ryan Kennedy and Sean Byrne CAS, ADR mixers Brent Findley CAS MPSE and Jamison Rabbe, and Foley mixer Arno Stephanian CAS MPSE. We all logged onto Zoom and here are some excerpts of what transpired as they introduced themselves. I'm so excited we were able to pull off this group interview! Let's start with everyone introducing themselves. David Lascelles AMPS: I'm a production sound mixer. I've been in the industry for 32 years now. I've done one and a half seasons of Ted Lasso and am currently working on Ted Lasso Season 3. Ryan Kennedy: I work here at Warner Bros. We'll be going into our third season of Ted Lasso here soon. I've been working in sound for a little more than 20 years. I've been in television post-production now for about 10 years. Sean Byrne CAS: I've been working at Warner Bros. for about 10 years. I've been in post since 1999. Ryan and I share an Emmy for sound mixing. We pass it back-and-forth. He's got two Emmy nominations for mixing. I have one for mixing and two for sound editing and two Golden Reels from MPSE for sound editing. Brent Findley CAS MPSE: In addition to being supervising sound editor, with the COVID scenarios, I was also ADR mixer for this series. I've been on for the entire series and have been in sound for picture for about 17 years. I originally hail from Michigan. Jamison Rabbe: I shot ADR for this season only. I mostly shot the loop group ADR in this crazy kind of COVID world. So, I'd love to talk about that. That's kind of my contribution; keeping everyone separate. I'm originally from about 20 minutes outside of Philly and have been in the industry for eight years. Arno Stephanian CAS MPSE: I've been in this industry for about 10 years now. I've been mixing Foley since 2012. I started at a Foley stage and fell in love with it, and here I am! I've been doing it every day for 10 years. I had a music background and initially wanted to get into that, but then kind of steered my way into doing Foley. David, how does Ted Lasso differ from other half-hour comedies that you've worked on? David: I've done some comedy recently for Apple. The show is called Trying. There's a mess of difference. With Ted Lasso, I would say the biggest thing is the scripts, the sides. The dialogue gets rewritten in between rehearsals and shooting constantly. So, you'll rehearse something, [actors] Jason [Sudeikis] and Brendan [Hunt] will go off to makeup, costume, come back 15 minutes later, and you'll have a new scene to shoot, which is quite unique for me. What about Sean and Ryan? Have you found the schedule for mixing to be on the shorter side or pretty common versus other half-hour shows? MEET THE WINNERS