Beauty and Brains
Just finished working on an audio edit on a documentary feature Beauty and Brains. This has kept me occupied for the past two weeks as today was my deadline to hand over the audio mix. The film documents the Blue Diamond Society's 2008 Beauty and Brains talent contest that promotes awareness and rights for Nepal's third gender community. The words of →
Creative Communities
Last November I finished work on a community project in Addlestone, Surrey. I worked with a group of teenagers at Addlestone Youth Centre, exploring all sorts of stuff. Stop frame animation, time lapse, interviews with the older generation, found sound, and ended up with a 25 minute movie. The final work was exhibited at Chertsey Museum in a space designed →
Venus In Transit
A few weeks ago me and two other artists (Jan-Willem van den Bosch and Caroline Collinge) applied for a Museumaker art residency at Orleans House in Twickenham, London. We got to the last three with our proposal and we made this short film to give a flavour of how we work in terms of connecting ideas, interweaving fiction and fact →
One Day by Stock-pot Productions
A few years ago I stepped in writing music for a short film "One Day" when another composer dropped out after not seeing eye to eye with the director and producer. I had three days as the film was booked in for the final sound post production to be completed at Aquarium. The director (James Barriscale) and producer (Tanya Franks) →
Memory Machine
A journey through moving image and sound. A series of thoughts and stories from the older generation filtered through the eyes and ears of young people. Informal interviews combined with animation, sound and film exploring the townscape of Addlestone. This has not intended to be either historical, or a reminiscence. The aim throughout has been to allow people to be themselves →
Moving Image Trailer
Managed a quick sound edit for my good friend Will Docherty for a trailer he has made promoting his documentary project Moving Image. I think he as managed to say a lot with mostly images and a couple well chosen soundbites, and it gives a great feel to how the final 30 minute documentary will be. Oh yes, and the cello music →
Lucky Dip Editors’ Choice
Our film is now on the Editors' Choice page.
Virgin Media Shorts
Lucky Dip is now on the featured list. So if you find this page please find the film and have a look. A quirky little number that manages to tell the tale of a grumpy angler disturbed by a couple on an even stranger fishing expedition, without any words. The film is embedded in an earlier post or you can got to Virgin →
Helen
Working again with Tamsin Shasha of Actors of Dionysus on another aerial piece of theatre this time based upon stories and myths around Helen of Troy. Other collaborators incude director - Jan-Willem van den Bosch, designer - Caroline Collinge, choreographer - Helen Parlour, a very exciting team with lots of ideas. We are in the research and development stage and →
Lucky Dip
It seems that a lot of people are becoming interested in this film. Must be something in the air over Wild Swimming. It is being entered for the Virgin Shorts competition and you can watch it here. This film has caused more technical difficulties than the last the same team - of which I am a part - made, even though →
Lucky Dip
Following up our success with Sci Fi London 48 hour film challenge we going for another short film prize but this time the material is very different. Wild swimming, fishing and mermaids. We shot footage down in Constable country, very close to the famous 'Haywain'. Draft edit done. musical sketches done. This evening I'll start weaving together the sound design and →
It’s a Tracker. No.1 at Sci Fi London 48 hour Film Challenge
We won! A few days ago I was informed we had won a prize, that we were in the top three. That was very exciting. But as the director Marc Caro anounced the winners of the joint second prize I could not quite believe that we had been ommited and that meant we had won. It must be someone else I →
We’ve made it to the short list
Out of 77 teams 55 completed the 48 hour film challenge. We were one of them and our film Tracker has made it on to the short list of 10 films. So that feels good and a big pat on the back for a lot of hard work from the people on our team.
Iya-Ile
Just been doing initial forays into sound design for Oladipo Agboluaje's new play Iya-Ile over the last couple of weeks. Tomorrow I will meet the rest of the creative team and actors at Out of Joint in North London. Exciting to be working with Femi Elufowoju, jr again. He is precise, knows what he wants and choreographs action to music, →
Tracker
Just recovering from the journey into the realms of sleep deprivation without chemical aids but keeping it together enough to handle a complex creative job. I was part of a team 'The Lost Souls" that entered the Sci Fi London 48 Hour Film Challenge. We were given a title, a prop and and an excerpt of dialogue that we had →
New album now available from Amazon mp3
You can now download my new album from Amazon mp3 for £4.99 or 69p per track. There are 11 tracks a few of which can be previewed on myspace.
Recurring
This morning I'm content, as I have started the beginning of the end of my sound work on a sci- fi horror feature Recurring. I was handed the film just under two years ago. A lot of tidying, rerecording of dialogues, adding foley as a lot of it had to be removed. When the film was shot there was heavy →
London’s Languages
Four films have been made by Digital Fluid in conjunction with Old Vic New Voices. The scripts for these have been drawn from workshops with schools based around themes of Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. I have been commissioned by Digital Fluid for original music for a short film as well as over seeing recording and mastering the audio of the three →