Ancient Mysteries
First Americans
Client: BBC Worldwide
Who were the first Americans?
This short excerpt is from one of twelve five minute promos on view on the BBC Worldwide 'Motion Gallery' website.
This clip features our old mate Deri Roberts on Native American flute.
For more info check out the Blog.
Hittites
Client: BBC Worldwide
Was there a fourth great empire completely lost to history?
This short excerpt is from one of twelve five minute promos on view on the BBC Worldwide 'Motion Gallery' website.
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Moving Ancient Cities
Client: BBC Worldwide
Can a city really dissapear - or was it moved?
This short excerpt is from one of twelve five minute promos on view on the BBC Worldwide 'Motion Gallery' website.
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The Nazca Lines
Client: BBC Worldwide
Who or whaat could have created the Nazca Lines?
This short excerpt is from one of twelve five minute promos on view on the BBC Worldwide 'Motion Gallery' website.
This clip features the beautiful singing of Anitra Blackson Soprano with the Welsh National Opera
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The Turin Shroud
Client: BBC Worldwide
What can you say about the Turin Shroud other than 'was it an early photograph?'
This short excerpt is from one of twelve five minute promos available on the BBC Worldwide 'Motion Gallery' website.
Having a low budget means we couldn't use real choirs but with careful use of samples I think we helped achieve the mood.
For more info check out the Blog.
Animation
Ernies Rap
Client: Calon TV
Calon TV released a series of kids dolls from the Hanna's Helpline series, two of which played songs. The songs turned out so well, Calon decided to animate them. This is Ernie’s MTV video!
Heavy metal meets hip hop!
Lottie & Benji...
Client: Colour Wheel Animation
Lottie & Benji the habitat hunters. This wonderful story was created for The Darwin Project. Gemma & Lisa turned up with a bunch of CDs which we used as inspiration.
We saw curly pictures, so we wrote curly music!
Moon Pirates - Cheese!!!
Client: Cyfle
End of the show and closing titles.
Classic animation scoring with electronic orchestra.
Moon Pirates - My Car!
Client: Cyfle
Red has converted Nev's car into a spaceship, which they use to fly to the moon.
Classic animation scoring with electronic orchestra.
Moon Pirates - Pirates!!!
Client: Cyfle
Pirates attack Nev's space car with disastrous results.
Classic animation scoring with electronic orchestra.
Owen’s Song
Client: Calon TV
Calon TV released a series of kids dolls from the Hanna's Helpline series two of which played songs. The songs turned out so well, Calon decided to animate them. This is Owen’s chance to shine onstage!!
Traditional RnB guitar, piano , brass, bass & drums.
PSI-5 Avian X
Client: Calon TV
More from our ‘Emo’ friends, who meet Dr Raven then fly off to his planet. Barbarella meets Mars Attacks to create a unique soundtrack.
Electronic orchestra with electronica & vocals.
PSI-5 Troubled Spirits
Client: Calon TV
The ‘Emos’ contact the spirits & discover danger. Barbarella meets Mars Attacks to create a unique soundtrack.
Electronic orchestra with electronica & vocals.
Brolly's Favourites
Disney Trivial Pursuit
Client: Metropolis
A Teaser used by Hasbro for promotion at a major toy trade fair. Classic Disney matching the early traditional styles with the more modern.
Electronic Orchestra.
Ernie’s Drums
Client: Calon TV
Ernie’s band play in the school concert & are a great success.
Jazz rock.
Ernies Rap
Client: Calon TV
Calon TV released a series of kids dolls from the Hanna's Helpline series, two of which played songs. The songs turned out so well, Calon decided to animate them. This is Ernie’s MTV video!
Heavy metal meets hip hop!
Lemur Island Titles
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
10 x 40' series for Five. This is the nearest we've got to blue chip and follows the lives of two rival gangs of Lemurs in Madagascar, a big & powerful theme.
Electronic orchestra & sample percussion
For more see 'Lemur Island' category
Lemur Streets Titles
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
20 x 25' series for Animal Planet. Using the same footage as Lemur Island, this project was much funkier. To differentiate between the two gangs, we wrote music in the style of Oceans Eleven for the urchins of the ‘Tornado’ group and gave an ethnic feel for the more sophisticated 'Graveyard’ Gang.
For more see the Lemur Streets category.
Love is late
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
A classic meerkat cue. You can clearly hear the Desperate Housewives influence on this one.
Percussion, piano & pizzicato strings.
Hana's Helpline
Brolly Bits
Client: Calon TV
Here's a montage of unrelated snippets that I really like.
Electronic orchestra.
Ernie’s Drums
Client: Calon TV
Ernie’s band play in the school concert & are a great success.
Jazz rock.
Lee's Ants
Client: Calon TV
Lee is scared of insects but is fascinated by a colony of ants that Owen has been nurturing.
Electronic orchestra.
Muzzy's Grandad
Client: Calon TV
Muzzy's grandad has recently died & Muzzy is very sad, so his friends decide to help and together they make grandad’s garden look lovely, giving him a big send-off.
Electronic orchestra.
Muzzy's Rocket
Client: Calon TV
Muzzy & his friends send a rocket high up into the sky.
Electronic orchestra.
Penrhys’s Blanket
Client: Calon TV
Penrhys does really well in a rounders game, but then panics when he realises he's lost his blanket.
Electronic orchestra.
Supermarket Panic
Client: Calon TV
A penguin has become confused between a supermarket & his home & is lost.
Electronic orchestra.
Tender Moments
Client: Calon TV
A montage of some of the quieter moments on Hana's Helpline.
Electronic orchestra.
India
India
Client: BBC Worldwide
12 x 5' programmes sold worldwide.
Tight budget on this one so again no players. Loops, sample phrases & electronica over a four clip montage.
Loops, sample phrases & electronica.
Visions of India Titles
Client: BBC Worldwide
12 x 5' programmes for worldwide sale.
All electronic combined with loops & sampled phrases.
For more see the 'India' category
Lemur Island
Lemur Island - Danger
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
Under watchful eyes the Lemurs travel through a forest fraught with risk and danger. One of my favourite cues.
Brooding strings with woodwind flurries.
Lemur Island - Fight
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
A tree top squabble ends in disaster. Most of the lemur fights are actually very short but with loads of stand-off, so we used this style of music to keep up the tension.
Aggressive percussion.
Lemur Island - Forest
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
A new day dawns in Madagascar.
Grand, electronic orchestra.
Lemur Island - Gizmo
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
Gizmo's struggles with a broken leg.
Sad, electronic orchestra.
Lemur Island - Rain
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
Lemurs caught in a downpour.
Piano, bells & strings.
Lemur Streets
Lemur Streets Intro
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
Montage of scenes from the show.
Moody funk.
Madagascar
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
Opening to the episode.
Combines Oceans Eleven funk with traditional Madagascan sounds.
Meerkat Manor
Aaardvark
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
One of those cues in an unusual time signature.
Again emotionally light, curious & fun.
Electronic orchestra & percussion.
Life Goes On
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
This cue shows how emotional underscoring really helps the story move along.
What will the future bring for the meerkats?
This goes from light piano to a darker orchestral mood.
Electronic orchestra & piano
Looking for Love
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
Another classic use of unusual time signatures.
A group of teenage meerkats are sneaking up on a female. This is an example of light scoring, with lots of space. It ends with a small chase sequence.
Percussion with pizzicato strings & piano.
Love is late
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
A classic meerkat cue. You can clearly hear the Desperate Housewives influence on this one.
Percussion, piano & pizzicato strings.
Meerkat Manor Titles
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
If you don't know the meerkats by now - where have you been? Viewed by over 650 million people, loved by Oprah, fan-sites all over the world, this was the first animal soap and spaned over four wonderful series.
We decided to combine music in the style of Desperate Housewives with a taste of Africa, adding lots of unusual rhythms to give the quirky jerky feel of the meerkats. The scoring is usually quite light, until we come to a fight sequence or big emotional moment.
For more examples see the 'Meerkat' category.
Peaceful
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
We used a lot of electronics to convey mood on the series. Here's an example of that.
A very gentle, peaceful cue.
Electronic pads & piano
Rocket Dog
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
The meerkat theme, in all its glory. A triumphant cue.
Electronic orchestra.
Rocketdog Survives
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
One of the bigger cues, after being bitten in the face by a snake, our leader finally emerges from her burrow, alive & well.
Electronic orchestra.
The Big Fight
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
A monster of a cue. This builds from an unsettling dark start to full blown war. The battle scenes were where we'd pull out all the stops. Forget their small size, these are matched pitched battles & get very nasty.
Electronic orchestra & large percussion.
Zorro's Legacy
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
We discover that one of the main characters has been killed by a hawk.
Electronic orchestra.
Reefs
Arms & Armour
Client: Scubazoo LTD
This clips shows how seal life protects itself.
Scubazoo produced a coffee table book for Dorling Kindersley on the reefs of south-east Asia. In the back of the book, there was a DVD with movie clips relating to the chapter headings.
Very simple groove based ambient, electronic music
Lifecycles
Client: Scubazoo LTD
This clip iullustrates how sea life breed and the challenges they face during parenthood. Scubazoo produced a coffee table book for Dorling Kindersley about the reefs of South East Asia and accompanied by a DVD with movie clips relating to each of the books chapter headings.
Very simple groove based ambient electronic music.
Reefs titles
Client: Scubazoo LTD
Scubazoo produced a coffee table book for Dorling Kindersley on the reefs of south-east Asia. Accompanying the book was a DVD with instrumental movie clips relating to the chapter headings.
Ambient, chill-out music.
(See Reef category for more)
Titles
Auntie’s Smalls
Client: BBC Worldwide
A comedy blooper signature tune for Virgin TV.
Loops and samples.
Hana’s Helpline Titles
Client: Calon TV
"If you’re a little animal with a problem, call 'moo baa-double quack -double quack!'
2 x 26 part series of fantastic pre-school animation produced by Calon TV for S4C, Five & many others.
The challenge was to avoid 'Mickey Mousing' & 'slapstick', & concentrate on the emotional subtext. There were lots of short cues & stings in the series, but also chances to stretch out.
For more see the 'Hana' category.
Lemur Island Titles
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
10 x 40' series for Five. This is the nearest we've got to blue chip and follows the lives of two rival gangs of Lemurs in Madagascar, a big & powerful theme.
Electronic orchestra & sample percussion
For more see 'Lemur Island' category
Lemur Streets Titles
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
20 x 25' series for Animal Planet. Using the same footage as Lemur Island, this project was much funkier. To differentiate between the two gangs, we wrote music in the style of Oceans Eleven for the urchins of the ‘Tornado’ group and gave an ethnic feel for the more sophisticated 'Graveyard’ Gang.
For more see the Lemur Streets category.
Meerkat Manor Titles
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
If you don't know the meerkats by now - where have you been? Viewed by over 650 million people, loved by Oprah, fan-sites all over the world, this was the first animal soap and spaned over four wonderful series.
We decided to combine music in the style of Desperate Housewives with a taste of Africa, adding lots of unusual rhythms to give the quirky jerky feel of the meerkats. The scoring is usually quite light, until we come to a fight sequence or big emotional moment.
For more examples see the 'Meerkat' category.
Moon Pirates Titles
Client: Cyfle
Cyfle is a Welsh organisation that takes media graduates & provides them with further experience in the industry. For this project a group of animators had to deliver a 3 minute production from writing the script to final dub.
Classic animation scoring with electronic orchestra.
For more Moon Pirate clips see the 'Animation' category.
PSI-5 Titles
Client: Calon TV
An animation show that puts a group of ‘Emos’ into space. The idea was to combine music inspired by Barbarella & Mars Attacks to create a unique soundtrack.
Electronic orchestra with electronica & vocals.
Reefs titles
Client: Scubazoo LTD
Scubazoo produced a coffee table book for Dorling Kindersley on the reefs of south-east Asia. Accompanying the book was a DVD with instrumental movie clips relating to the chapter headings.
Ambient, chill-out music.
(See Reef category for more)
Ripcurl
Client: BBC Worldwide
A surfing title sequence produced for the BBC Motion Gallery.
Electronica & loops.
Rock Britannia
Client: BBC Worldwide
A 'Best Of' show of pop music through the ‘80s & ‘90s for Virgin TV.
Indie guitar music with a wobbly National Anthem start.
Visions of India Titles
Client: BBC Worldwide
12 x 5' programmes for worldwide sale.
All electronic combined with loops & sampled phrases.
For more see the 'India' category
Trailers & Promos
Disney Trivial Pursuit
Client: Metropolis
A Teaser used by Hasbro for promotion at a major toy trade fair. Classic Disney matching the early traditional styles with the more modern.
Electronic Orchestra.
The Brolly Movie
Client: Brollyman Productions
We were very excited when the main video sequence for the website was sent over and immediatly got to work creating a soundtrack to accompany it, but then we were told that what we were doing wouldn't work with embedded Flash video which doesn't hold sync that well. So a looser more ambient track was created instead.
We still love the original idea so here it is...
Trivial Pursuit- War of the Wedges
Client: Metropolis
A Teaser used by Hasbro to promote the latest version of trivial pursuits. We also produced the sound design and music for the game itself.
Dramatic game show through various contemporary loop based styles.
TV
Death
Client: BBC Wales
This was our pitch for the popular BBC Childrens show 'Young Dracula'. We were disappointed not to get this. We got down to the final two but couldn't accomodate their schedule. Dracula is struck by Van Helsing's arrow bring on the death scene!
Electronic Orchestra plus real violin & choirboy.
I Smell a Human
Client: BBC Wales
Dracula smells a human in the castle & seeks him out! This was our pitch for the popular BBC Childrens show 'Young Dracula'. We were disappointed not to get this. We got down to the final two but couldn't accomodate their schedule.
Electronic Orchestra plus real violin.
Starhyke
Client: Lightwork Production & VFX
A fantastic Sci-Fi series that never saw the light.
This was the pilot episode & the clip shows the captain passionately giving a 'hero's ' speech but are the crew paying attention?
Electronic Orchestra