Justin Van Hout Post Production Audio Sound Design Scam from Craigslist Los Angeles CA Internet
Im an independent film producer who was looking for a post production sound editor to design a professional sound scape for my feature film. I was contacted by Justin through my Craigslist ad. His credits were appealing and his reel looked good but it seems as though he worked as an assistant on these bigger films, and didn't actually do the work advertised in his reel and imdb credits.
He told me not to worry and promised professional results for an unbeatable price. I should have known the price was far too low to be a professional job. He said he could do the entire post production audio job for $1,000. I paid him half the money up front, $500 and he started work.
3 or so days later he comes back with the first reel finished and sends it over for my review. I listened to it excited to see the progress, however was shocked at how bad of a job he'd done. the sound was actually 10 times worse than it was when I sent it to him. I don't know what he could have done to mess up the sound so bad, or how he could listen to what he sent me and think it waold ever be able to show on TV or DVD or theaters, or even on YouTube. He added some filter that muffled al the voices so you couldn't understand what the characters were saying and sound effects that were completely out of place. I had my composer listen to it as we'll and said it was the worst sound design job he's ever heard. It seemed as though he was playing around with the program testing things out like he had never done this before like a young child.
i told Justin how extremely dissatisfied I was with the quality of the sound work and asked for a refund, or at least a partial refund. He got all upset and egotistical and refused to give me a refund. After what I had heard I knew there was no chance of this guy producing quality sound work capable of bein delivered to a real distribution platform. I paid through paypal, and raised a dispute through them however because the goods we're not tangible, PayPal was unable to get any of my money back.
Justin Van Hout is a scam. His prices are too low for quality work. He gets his imdb credits as an uncredited assistant and passes the bigger work off as his own. He took my money and didn't give me anything to show for it. Beware.