Mark Kerins

Recent Work

2019 winner, Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy and Best Visual Effects at NOVA International Film & Music Festival for film Echoes
2019 winner, Best Short Film at Grapevine Film Festival for film Echoes
2019 winner, Best Director (Short) at Oklahoma Cine Latino Film Festival for film Echoes
2018 winner, Best Short at AtomaCon for film Echoes
2018 winner, Best Editing (Short) at Other Worlds AustinFilm Festival for film Echoes
2018 winner, Best Sci-Fi Short and Best Editing: Short at The International Indie Gathering for film Echoes
2018 winner, Best Drama at Wildwood Film Festival for film Echoes
2018 winner, SMU Excellence in Mentoring Award
2017 winner, Best Director (Feature) and Best Editing (Feature) at Eyecatcher Film Festival for film All the Wrong Friends
2016 winner, Best in Category Thriller at Hot Springs International Horror Film Festival for film All the Wrong Friends
2015 winner, Residence Life Faculty/Staff of the Month, Southwestern U.S. region (through National Residence Hall Honorary)
2015 nominee, HOPE (Honoring Our Professors' Excellence) Award
2014 Meadows Foundation Distinguished Teaching Professorship
2012 winner, Best Comedy Short award at Illinois International Film Festival for film How NOT to Quit Your Day Job
2012 nominee, Best Director (Short), Best Script, and Best Producer at Tenerife International Film Festival for film How NOT to Quit Your Day Job
2011 Godbey Lecture Series Authors Award for book Beyond Dolby (Stereo)
2008 Sam Taylor Fellowship for work on book project Beyond Dolby
2007 Rotunda Outstanding Professor Award

BOOK

JOURNAL ARTICLES

"Hearing Reality in Joker," New Review of Film and Television Studies , vol. 19, no. 1 (March 2021): 89-100.

“A Statement on Sound Studies,” Music, Sound and the Moving Image , vol. 2, no. 2 (autumn 2008): 115-119.

“Narration in the Cinema of Digital Sound,” The Velvet Light Trap , no. 58 (fall 2006): 41-54.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

	“Michael Bay as Marketer: Selling Across Media.” In Transmedia Directors: Artistry, Industry, and New Audiovisual Aesthetics, eds. Carol Vernallis, Holly Rogers, and Lisa Perrott. Bloomsbury, 2019.
	“Home Theater(s): Technology, Culture, and Style.” In The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound, eds. Miguel Mera, Ronald Sadoff, and Ben Winters. Routledge, 2017.
	“The Modern Entertainment Marketplace: 2000-present.” In Sound: Dialogue, Music, and Effects, ed. Kathryn Kalinak. Rutgers University Press, 2015.
	“Multi-channel Gaming and the Aesthetics of Interactive Surround.” In The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics, eds. Claudia Gorbman, John Richardson, and Carol Vernallis. Oxford University Press, 2013.
	“Understanding the Impact of Surround Sound in Multimedia.” In Psychology of Music in Multimedia, eds. Siu-Lan Tan, Annabel Cohen, Scott Lipscomb, and Roger Kendall. Oxford University Press, 2013.

"Raising Questions by Lowering the Boom" (book review), Jump Cut , no. 51 (Spring 2009).

"Constructing the Diegesis in a Multi-Channel World," Offscreen, vol. 11, no. 8-9 (October 2007).

“Sound Designing: How Should You Think About Sound?” Student Filmmakers, August 2007: 46-9.

“Editing is Re-editing: From Rough Cut to Picture Lock,” Student Filmmakers, July 2007: 24-6.

“Seven Suggestions for Stellar Soundtracks,” Student Filmmakers, December 2006: 32-5.

“Getting Good Performances,” Student Filmmakers, November 2006: 32-5.

SELECTED DIRECTORIAL FILMOGRAPHY

Happiness Is (2002) (director / producer / editor) – music video for RCA recording artist The Verve Pipe, nominated for Best Visual Effects at HDFest World Tour 2003

Would You Please (2002) (director / producer / editor) – music video for RCA Victor recording artist Rachael Yamagata

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY (other crew positions)

Watershed (2012, dir. Paula Goldberg) (editor) - dramatic short

Hays County Nights (2011, dir. Tommy Dingwall) (editor / re-recording mixer) - music video for The Clay Wilson Band

There Goes the View (2007, dir. Carolyn Macartney) (voice recordist / re-recording mixer) – 16mm experimental short, won “Best Experimental Film” at 2007 University Film and Video Association Conference

The Big Lull (2005, dir. Adam Marshall) (editor) - narrative short (an MFA thesis film)

First and Last (2004, dir. James Joyce) (editor / production mixer / sound editor) - narrative short (an MFA thesis film)

Research

Interests: sound design, surround sound, home theater, the relationship between technology and aesthetics, Michael Bay films, and movies, movies, movies!