From city lecture theatre to TV’s Downton Abbey
films of recent years.
Along with a team of others, Rebecca was nominated for an Emmy for her work on Watership Down in the Outstanding Sound Editing for an Animated Programme category.
Rebecca, who studied Media Production at the University, said: “During season five the film crews came to the castle for the Christmas Special.
“They were looking for local crew to help and got in touch with the university who got in touch with me.
“I came on as a runner, and worked for the whole Alnwick shoot, before getting asked to work down in London for the remainder of the shoot.”
“My career since then has changed considerably.
“I am now a Foley artist working at Pinewood Studios Group within the Pinewood Creative Audio team on a whole range of TV, films and video games, including Radioactive, which has just premiered at TIFF and Watership Down, for which I was nominated for an Emmy earlier this year.”
A Foley artist helps reproduce sound effects that are then added to films, videos, and other media in postproduction to enhance audio quality.
These reproduced sounds can be anything from the swishing of clothing and footsteps to squeaky doors and breaking glass.
On this Rebecca said: “Every day is different and exciting.
“I could be working on a 18th century period drama with huge skirts and horse and carts one day, and a futuristic robot based video game the next.
“My advice to students hoping to get into the industry would be to turn up, try your best. Keep talking to people at the university who can get you those work experience placements and runner jobs, and once you get on set be the best, most enthusiastic runner they've ever had.”