Love at First Sight is the debut film of Mark Playne at 1st Sight Films and a visual masterpiece. I scored the soundtrack and did the sound design / foley for this film which has been selected by Palm Springs International ShortFest as a featured short where it will appear for it’s Worldwide Premiere on the 22nd of June (2011). Read more »
Working on my first feature film with Theo Green, I co-composed the score for Exteriors which has been nominated for Best Debut Feature Film award at Raindance 2011. Exteriors is a ‘poetic, realistic, surrealistic and somewhat experimental drama’ directed by the talented Patrik Syverson about two struggling foreign actresses in LA on the day of a very important audition. Read more »
Part of Virgin media Shorts competition, I scored the soundtrack to Rocket, a story of a dog (Bowie) who has an idea to build a rocket after being inspired by a lava lamp… view the official website here
Working with film maker and nature enthusiast Mat Thompson, I wrote the score for his documentary Hudson’s Monarch about the stag beetle. Meticulously filmed and edited over more than three years, Hudson’s Monarch is a beautiful production exploring the six-year life cycle of the stag beetle and how this is now under threat. Submitted to the Wildscreen Festival 2010, we’ve just been confirmed as the winner of the BBC Newcomer Award! Read more »
Another great Trevor Hardy-esque animation about an old lady who loses her cat and searches high and low for it. I had the privilege to work with both Trevor and the talented Ian Chattham on this production. Read more »
Connect is a short comedy by director Frank Morris about a man (Matt Cornett) who falls in love with his computer, Clara. The score is an eclectic mix of various styles of music that moves with the emotions of the film. Read more »
Working with director Keita Funamto, I wrote the music for the WORKU trailer using Ry Cooder’s Paris Texas soundtrack as a reference. WORKU is a six-year long project by directors Keita Funamoto and Masahide Kobayashi from the stop-motion animation studio “The Village of Marchen” based in Tokyo. Note: large filesize (50mb). Read more »
The talented Trevor Hardy kindly let me use his animation ‘A Problem Shared’ as a medium to write some music, add voice overs and sound design to from scratch. Animated in the style of Wallace and Gromit, A Problem Shared features mountain-dwelling animal characters Frank, Ozzie and Spike who talk about the virtues of being single after Ozzie splits up with his wife. However, things change when Ozzie gets a phone call… Read more »
Recently, I wrote the music for a nature documentary by Lou Astbury that won the BBC Newcomer award (part of the Wildscreen Festival). This 12 minute film is a journey through the beautiful woods of Dartmoor in Devon (UK) told by a local who explains how legends, such as that of unicorns and fairies, are not myths at all, but rather anecdotes describing the beauty of nature around us. Read more »
Sound design for short film Top Dog by Louis Tisne that was featured and shortlisted in the Super Shorts Film Festival 2005 Read more »
Assistant music producer to film composer Theo Green for an O2 fashion promotion video.
Video is available on request (not published due to copyright issues). Get in touch if you want to see it.