Archive Animation
Disney Trivial Pursuit
Client: Metropolis
2007
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
2008
Hanas Helpline.
Ernie’s band play in the school concert & are a great success.
sample based Jazz rock
Hana’s Helpline Titles
Client: Calon TV
2008
"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.
sample based band with vocals
Hanas helpline
Client: Calon TV
2008
Here's a montage of unrelated snippets that I really like.
Electronic orchestra
Lottie & Benji
Client: Colour Wheel Animation
2008
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!
Muzzy's Grandad
Client: Calon TV
2008
Hanas Helpline.
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
Owen’s Song
Client: Calon TV
2008
Hanas Helpline.
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
Penrhys’s Blanket
Client: Calon TV
2008
Hanas Helpline.
Penrhys does really well in a rounders game, but then panics when he realises he's lost his blanket.
Electronic orchestra
PSI-5 Avian X
Client: Calon TV
2007
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 Titles
Client: Calon TV
2007
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
PSI-5 Troubled Spirits
Client: Calon TV
2007
The ‘Emos’ contact the spirits & discover danger. Barbarella meets Mars Attacks to create a unique soundtrack.
Electronic orchestra with electronica & vocals
Tender Moments
Client: Calon TV
2008
Hanas Helpline.
A montage of some of the quieter moments on Hana's Helpline.
Electronic orchestra
Archive TV
Death
Client: BBC Wales
2007
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 as I was getting married & going on honeymoon. Dracula is struck by Van Helsing's arrow bring on the death scene!
Electronic Orchestra plus real violin & choirboy
First Americans
Client: BBC Worldwide
2009
Ancient Mysteries.
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
Hittites
Client: BBC Worldwide
2009
Ancient Mysteries
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.
I Smell a Human
Client: BBC Wales
2007
Dracula smells a human in the castle & seeks him out! This was another cue from our pitch for the popular BBC Childrens show 'Young Dracula'. We got down to the final two but couldn't accomodate their schedule as I was getting married & going on honeymoon.
Electronic Orchestra plus real violin
Meerkat Manor Titles
Client: Oxford Scientific Films
2008
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.
Moving Ancient Cities
Client: BBC Worldwide
2008
Ancient Mysteries
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.
The Nazca Lines
Client: BBC Worldwide
2008
Ancient Mysteries
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
Visions of India
Client: BBC Worldwide
2008
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
Birth of the Earth
Birth of the Earth
Client: BBC Worldwide
Telling the story of how our planet was formed.
Big sound, sample orchestra & electronics
Darwin
Client: BBC Worldwide
Following Darwins visit to the Galapogus island.
Sample Orchestra & piano
Gulf Stream - Full Film
Client: BBC Worldwide
The deadlines & budgets on these BBC Worldwide series means that we have to complete a film a day, each film is two & a half minutes long so they're very long very tiring days but the footage always makes it so worthwhile.
So here ladies & gentlemen is a days work.
Electronics, piano samples, & sample orchestra
Manhatten
Client: BBC Worldwide
If you like Quincy you'll like this 70's New York style.
Brass, piano & percussion samples
Ocean Acidification
Client: BBC Worldwide
A clip on pollution using vocal sounds & electronic orchestra to represent the relentless pull of human industry.
Rare Earth
Client: BBC Worldwide
A clip all about Jupiters magnetic field.
Big sound sample orchestra
San Fransisco
Client: BBC Worldwide
A jazzy score telling the story that SF is in fact sitting on a timebomb.
Samples
Supervolcano
Client: BBC Worldwide
The dark secret of Yellowstone national park.
Big sound full sample orchestra, electronics & big drums
Blonde Vs Bear
Ann & Sadface
Client: Firecracker Films
Brolly on slide guitar to create the gentle reflective moment with electronics & samples
Busy Office
Client: Firecracker Films
Even office scenes have pace & energy in this show.
Strings & electronic percussion
Lake Tahoe
Client: Firecracker Films
Setting the scene for our story.
Guitar & harp harmonics with electronics
Pretitles
Client: Firecracker Films
Setting the mood for a high drama high octane ride!
Huge drums, big drums, loud drums, big electronics & strings
The Bear is Back
Client: Firecracker Films
Drama as Ann prepares to fire at the bear!
Huge drums, big drums, loud drums, big electronics & strings
Brolly's Favourites
Ann & Sadface
Client: Firecracker Films
Brolly on slide guitar to create the gentle reflective moment with electronics & samples
Closing Titles
Client: Firelight productions
nothing to look at visually but I love this piece of music which hopefully sums up the tone of the show.
Electronics & strings
Crown of Thorns Starfish
Client: BBC Worldwide
Big bad & mean just like it's subject matter.
Combining distorted loops with dark muted brass gives the prefect mood.
Electronic orchestra & Distorted Loops
Darwin
Client: BBC Worldwide
Following Darwins visit to the Galapogus island.
Sample Orchestra & piano
Disney Trivial Pursuit
Client: Metropolis
2007
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
Flying frogs
Client: BBC Worldwide
A wonderful slowmo sequence of frogs leaping & flying.
We would have loved to have used real cello on this but budget wouldn't allow.
Strings & samples
Muzzy's Grandad
Client: Calon TV
2008
Hanas Helpline.
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
Wildest Africa Titles
Client: Off the Fence
A simple song that builds representing the wonders your about to see.
featuring vocals from Gbubemi Amas & Julia Coles.
Samples, electronic orchestra & vocals
Submarine Mission
Beds & Periscopes.
Client: Firelight productions
Life goes on under the sea.
Strings & electronics
Closing Titles
Client: Firelight productions
nothing to look at visually but I love this piece of music which hopefully sums up the tone of the show.
Electronics & strings
HMS Turbulent
Client: Firelight productions
Stirring music as befits the story going from orchestral music to electronics with strings.
Normality
Client: Firelight productions
Day to day life on the sub before the captain brings it all to a halt.
Piano & strings
Submarine Pretitles
Client: Firelight productions
Setting the scene for the first ever documentary series filmed aboard an active nuclear submarine. Filmed at the time of the Libyan crisis.
Produced for FIVE & Nat Geo UK.
Sturdy orchestral music was the only way to go with added electronics
Tribal Life
Bait Collecting
Client: Off the Fence
From the 'Cape Coast' episode of 'Wildest Africa'
Watching a group of women collecting bait for their fisherman husband's in a struggle for survival.
Electronic orchestra
Moving House
Client: Off the Fence
From the 'Zambesi' episode of 'Wildest Africa'
A funky cue celebrating a villages move to higher ground featuring vocals from Gbubemi Amas & Julia Coles.
Samples & vocals & flute
Tribal clothing
Client: Off the Fence
From the 'Namibia' episode of 'Wildest Africa'
Using old samples which don't have the over produced effect of todays library allowed us to get a more ethnic sound for this cue, add some african flute from our mate Sadie & there you have it.
Samples & flute
Under The Sea
A New Home
Client: BBC Worldwide
There's always room for a bit of light hearted music in brollyland.
Here we see Hermit crabs vying for a new home.
Mixing staccato strings with electronic loops & sounds gives us the busy mood we were after
Angler Fish
Client: BBC Worldwide
In deep dark water we meet the odd looking Angler fish, a potential threat to all it encounters.
Electronics
Crown of Thorns Starfish
Client: BBC Worldwide
Big bad & mean just like it's subject matter.
Combining distorted loops with dark muted brass gives the prefect mood.
Electronic orchestra & Distorted Loops
Jellyfish
Client: BBC Worldwide
A dark ambient otherworldy electronic cue.
electronics
Sardine Run
Client: BBC Worldwide
A big two & a half minute cue, we relaid the music over the final images.
This is an orchestral piece charting the sardine run up the east coast of Africa & the carnage that ensues.No V/O
Electronic orchestra
Sea Horses
Client: BBC Worldwide
A gentle cue showing courting seahorses.
Strings & bell sounds
Sharks
Client: Off the Fence
From an episode of 'Wildest Africa'
One of two shark cues on here, this is a more orchestral treatment focusing on mood & potential threat.
Electronic orchestra
Sharks 2
Client: Off the Fence
One of two shark cues on here, this combines orchestral strings with bell sounds & electronic sequences to create a more contemporary feel.
Electronic orchestra & samples
Unusual
Ancient Plants
Client: Off the Fence
From the 'Namibia' episode of 'Wildest Africa'
Working with flute player Sadie Finch we created textures using delays , reversing audio & filtering to help create the curious soundtrack you hear.
Samples, audio manipulation & flute
Dead Trees
Client: Off the Fence
From the 'Namibia' episode of 'Wildest Africa'
We used similar techniques to the 'Ancient Plants' cue to help create this soundscape before moving into dark string chords.
Samples, audio manipulation & flute
Wildest Africa
Cheetahs
Client: Off the Fence
From the 'Namibia' episode of 'Wildest Africa'
Combining orchestra with electronics giving a quietly dramatic demonstration of unreleased potential without going over the top.
Electronic orchestra & samples
Kingfisher
Client: Off the Fence
From the 'Nile' episode of 'Wildest Africa'
Using old samples which don't have the over produced effect of todays libraries allowed us to get a more ethnic sound for this cue.
Samples & electronics
Quiet River
Client: Off the Fence
From the 'Zambesi' episode of 'Wildest Africa'
This is a very gentle version of the 'Zambesi theme' heard in the 'Zambesi Pretitles' cue.
Piano, electronics & strings {samples}
Wildest Africa Titles
Client: Off the Fence
A simple song that builds representing the wonders your about to see.
featuring vocals from Gbubemi Amas & Julia Coles.
Samples, electronic orchestra & vocals
Zambesi Pretitles
Client: Off the Fence
From the 'Zambesi' episode of 'Wildest Africa'
This cue represents everything we wanted to get into the series, natural sounding African percussion, rich orchestral music & contemporary sounds to create an emotional responsive musical style, contemporary, filmic, & dramatic.
Electronic orchestra & samples
Wildlife
Bolas Spider
Client: BBC Worldwide
Using electronics & piano we tried to create the strange world of the bolas spider.
Busy Beetle
Client: Off the Fence
From the 'Namibia' episode of 'Wildest Africa'
Using ethnic percussion & strings to create a scurrying mood of haste until mr beetle meets his nemesis.
Samples, electronics pan pipes & Madagascan valiha
Cheetahs
Client: Off the Fence
From the 'Namibia' episode of 'Wildest Africa'
Combining orchestra with electronics giving a quietly dramatic demonstration of unreleased potential without going over the top.
Electronic orchestra & samples
Dragonfly
Client: BBC Worldwide
Trying to create the strange world of the dragonfly transforming from monster to flying beauty.
Piano & strings {samples}
Flying frogs
Client: BBC Worldwide
A wonderful slowmo sequence of frogs leaping & flying.
We would have loved to have used real cello on this but budget wouldn't allow.
Strings & samples
Kingfisher
Client: Off the Fence
From the 'Nile' episode of 'Wildest Africa'
Using old samples which don't have the over produced effect of todays libraries allowed us to get a more ethnic sound for this cue.
Samples & electronics
Nile Crocodile
Client: BBC Worldwide
The brooding power of this beast looking for a meal is the mood we tried to convey using sampled percussion, electronics & pan pipes.
Offline clip no V/O