Hi all & welcome to Autumn!
i've just had a lovely two weeks off, plenty of fishing & Autumn walks & so am now raring to go again.
This week see's us start work on the reversions of Brian Cox's 'Wonders of the Solar System' with BBC Worldwide.
Twenty short films of visual splendour coming up.
We're also continuing to work on the job that i can now reveal as;
'Rory McGrath's PUB DIG!' A great 4 parter for The HISTORY CHANNEL & FIVE being produced by Oxford Scientific Films which sees Rory in Cahoots with a team of Archeologists digging in the grounds of some well known pubs, making amazing historic discoveries & imbibing copious amounts of fermented liquids. Very informative & very funny!
Halfway through the month we got a call from the desert from our old mate Mark Strickson.
He had an 8 minute job about the Arabian horse for a client in Qatar but the music wasn't quite working in certain spots, could we sort it out , oh & by the way it had to be done in the next three hours!!
So sort it out we did. We had to write new bits of music to blend & replace sections of tracks recorded by the London symphony Orchestra. Not the easiest thing in the world to do but subtlety was the key, so three hours later it was signed off & then we piped it over to New Zealand for the dub. Don't you just love the internet!!
NEW COMMISSION.
We have been commissioned to provide music for some of the broadcast material for next years Olympics which will whizz it's way around the world.
There will initially be 10 short films & a series of 30second clips but I have a feeling more will follow. The subjects vary from informative films about some of the towns where events will be taking places to some comedy shorts about cheese rolling & bog snorkelling.
Oh us crazy British people!!
LECTURING.
Having met Composer John Hardy at a PRS function we got together to arrange for me to give a few lectures to the students at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama where John is head of composition.
The first lecture was on 'the business of being a composer in todays market' looking at tax, vat, networking, getting clients & keeping them etc…
The second lecture was 'A day in the life of Brollyman', looking at how I write to picture, interpreting briefs, the technology I use etc. We all had a really good time- talked a lot, drank a lot of tea & learnt a lot to boot!
Brolly & John in the shade.
Talking money!
LISTENING.
We're always keen to improve our craft & to that end we invited Donal & Gethin down from Hafod Mastering to go through some stuff with us. '
Hafod' master all of our music as well as working with a lot of top Bollywood artist & many successful bands & groups.
We went through our monitoring, detail in the top end. How much sub should we roll off & lot's of technical stuff - too boring to write about but stuff that will keep on pushing us forward in terms of sound quality.
After lots of listening it was time for the obligatory curry of course!!
The technical chaps, Gethin, Carlos & Donal
Catalogue pointing simply has to be done!
& then there was curry....
For those of you who've enquired about our Autumn availability we still have plenty of space in the diary before Christmas hits, when our attention will be more focused on mince pies & alcohol.
Happy Halloween & Bonfire night -bring on the snow!!
brolly
