Sound
Steve Venezia, C.A.S.
Steven Venezia, C.A.S. is director of production services operations for Dolby Laboratories. Joining Dolby in 1995, he worked intensively on the adoption and launch of digital television (DTV) and HDTV. Venezia’s involvement in the television sound industry extends across broadcast, cable and satellite networks, audio post-production and industry standards organizations. He holds a patent for loudness measurement and worked on the development of multiple Emmy-winning broadcast audio products. He has traveled extensively throughout the Americas, Asia and the South Pacific with the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) and the Organization of American States (OAS), giving presentations and training on audio standards for DTV. He has presented at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conferences on the subjects of multichannel audio for live broadcasts, and the problems of broadcast loudness inconsistencies. He is a member of the Cinema Audio Society (CAS), Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, where he currently serves on the board of governors. He also serves on a number of Television Academy committees; he co-chaired the Creative Arts Awards Show Committee and was co-executive producer of the 2008 Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Venezia began his career in audio in 1976 working with a variety of artists, including Frank Zappa, the Pretenders, Dire Straits, INXS and Tom Waits. His album credits include mixing Basia on Broadway for Sony Records and Howard Jones Live Acoustic America.
Frank Morrone, C.A.S.
Frank is an independent re-recording mixer who has worked extensively in both film and television. He has mixed the ABC hit show Lost since the pilot. He has received a Primetime Emmy for his work on the series with an additional three Emmy nominations. Other television projects include The L Word, Sex and the City and Day of the Triffids. He also mixed the Jonas Brothers' Camp Rock, for which he received a platinum album for the soundtrack. He has mixed films with directors such as Ron Howard, Tim Burton, John Singleton, Janusz Kaminski, and Lasse Hallstrom on projects including Ransom, Sleepy Hollow, Shaft, Lost Souls, The Cider House Rules and the Oscar-winning documentary When We Were Kings. Morrone has been involved in several film and television organizations. In addition to his Television Academy service, he is currently vice president of the Motion Picture Sound Editors and chairs the Blue Ribbon panel in the Feature Dial category for the Golden Reel Awards. He is also a member of the Cinema Audio Society (CAS), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the Recording Academy. He started his career working in a music studio and gained experience engineering film scores as well as jazz, rock and country albums. He moved to post-production in 1986 working on both film and television projects. He accepted a position at Todd AO New York in 1995. During his time in New York, Morrone lectured at NYU film school. He moved to Los Angeles in 2004 to work on Lost, and since then has mixed several projects for Disney. He has worked in collaboration with manufacturers such as Digidesign, McDSP and M-Audio on product development.
