Bollella, Jim
Audio Laboratories Manager
Biography
A 30 year career in audio production including radio production, post production, and music production. Creative services director at various radio stations including, WNEW New York, WKRK Detroit, KSTP FM Minneapolis, WWMX/WOCT Baltimore, WSNX FM/AM Grand Rapids, WWCK FM/AM Flint. General manager of brownbagimaging.com, a music and sound design library owned and operated by Premiere Radio Networks, Los Angeles. Audio Engineer at RMS Sound Studios, Birmingham, MI. Owner, Freeform Audio LLC/freeformaudio.com. Adjunct instructor in mass communications at Washtenaw Community College. Freelance voice over artist.
Advisor for Moore Media Records – a student run record label.
Recent Scholarships
1992 The Thirteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts – Dania, Florida. Presented paper titled “After Forty Years the Bogeyman Comes Out of the Closet: The Influence of Val Lewton on John Carpenter’s Halloween”
1991 Ninth Annual International Film Conference – Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Presented and published paper titled “A Celebration of Myth and Legend: The Revival of the Ghost Story in John Carpenter’s The Fog”.
1990 Journal of Evolutionary Psychology. Published paper titled “On Vesperal Film and the Psyche: The Influence of Val Lewton on Jacques Torneur’s Curse of the Demon”.
More about Jim Bollella
Education
BS: 1989, Central Michigan University
Courses Taught
• Advanced Audio Production
• Radio Operations