About
Johnnie Burn is a multi-award winning sound designer enjoying working in feature film.
Along with partner Warren Hamilton, Johnnie founded Wave Studios in London in 1999, now in Amsterdam & New York too. Their first piece of work was the classic Guinness ’Surfer’ spot, this launched great success.
Johnnie has been lucky to have worked for icons including Travis Scott, Madonna, Prince, George Michael, David Bowie, Richard Ashcroft, UNKLE and even The Spice Girls, and also made the sound design work of the SKYPE VOIP system, before moving to feature films, when asked to do so by fellow perfectionist Jonathan Glazer on the extraordinary 2014 film UNDER THE SKIN. The sound he and Jonathan spent a year mapping out went a long way toward telling the story, this gained much accolade.
This ability to create highly detailed and realistic yet still filmic and emotionally spellbinding sound led him to meet director Yorgos Lanthimos in 2015 to work on THE LOBSTER, THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER in 2017 and The Academy Award winning THE FAVOURITE in 2019. Johnnie has also headed up sound with Rupert Sanders on GHOST IN THE SHELL (2017), had great success with Trey Edward Shults’ WAVES (2019), and more recently the incredible Francis Lee's AMMONITE, starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan.
The Sound Design and mix of 'the favourite'
Feature Films
AMMONITE Directed by Francis Lee WAVES Directed by Trey Edward Shults THE FAVOURITE Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos THE MERCY Directed by James Marsh, THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, UNDER THE SKIN. Directed by Jonathan Glazer THE LOBSTER. Directed By Yorgos Lanthimos BIRTH. Directed by Jonathan Glazer
Other
Skype - Sound Design of the Skype Login/ringtones etc Sound palette Madonna 'Music' - by Jonas AkerlundDavid Bowie 'Thursday's Child' - by Walter SternThe Dead Weather 'Treat Me Like Your Mother' - by Jonathan GlazerThe Fat Slags - Slags At LargeThe Spice Girls 'Say You'll Be There' by Vaughn Arnell
Commercials
Guinness 'Surfer' - by Jonathan GlazerHonda 'Cog' by Antoine Bardou-JacquetAudi 'Bull' by Niolcai FuglisgXbox Mosquito by Danny KleinmanMercedes 'Lucky Star' by Michael MannAudi RS4 'Spider' by Sam BrownHonda 'Grrrr' by Adam Foulkes and Alan SmithLanvin 'Oxygene' by Bruno Aveillan Kiss FM 'Music is Life' by Malcolm VenvilleGuiness 'Dreamer' by Jonathan GlazerGuiness 'Lava' by Rupert SandersAudi 'Wakeboarder' by Danny KleinmanBridgestone 'Scream' by kinka UsherKronenbourg 'Bubbles' by Tony KayeStella Artios 'Devils Island' by Jonathan GlazerCOI - Spin The Bottle by Dom & NickAudi A6 "Satellite" by Johnny Green
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