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Petar Mrdjen holds a master's degree in Film Sound Design from Stockholm University of the Arts. Petar is a collaborative sound designer who has been awarded multiple times for his work in documentary and fiction film.
He studied film, photography, and graphic design in high school — a program which was political in origin rather than artistic.
And in 2013, Petar got a diploma in Cinematography and Screenwriting from Prague Film School, Czechia.
Petar's diverse filmmaking background has lent him a deep and intuitive understanding of film dramaturgy and the whole filmmaking process.
"What is the story here?"
Since the age of 11, Petar has created films with small means, equipped then with but a DV camera and a broken upright piano. Inspired by the jarring landscape of his hometown of Södertälje, growing up at the meeting point of the forrested nature and heavy industries.
Petar is a self-taught musician, who always was more interested in creating textures than studying scales. When he got his first electric-guitar, he spent months learning how to play the feedback tones that it produced.
"After Prague Film School, I discovered sound design. Sound allowed me to express things with a depth I never could as a director, screenwriter, or cinematographer. I then worked as a freelance sound designer and composer for nine years, also becoming a sound teacher at the school where I studied."
With his story-focused approach to sound, Petar's ease with conveying sound concepts to directors and producers has made him an integral contributor early in their projects, in some cases serving as a co-writer. He has built a professional reputation for his flexibility and his ability to make directors feel passionate about sound, as well as a 5.1 project studio from where he works.
"The first challenge we always have to overcome is language. For instance, how would you describe the qualities of a “warm” sound? I've heard it described in many ways. A photographer drew a parallel to light temperature, describing a candle light as warm, and daylight as cold. I found this odd, because surely the sun must be much warmer than a candle?
Words fail us.
So we must start by talking about sound, finding our unique vocabulary so that we can be collaborators"