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Superme - ‘Resilience’ Film
In July I scored and sound designed this film about social resilience for Ch4’s Superme Project featuring British hip hop/grime artist Bashy.
SuperMe is the latest project from Channel 4's consistently inventive education department and is aimed at trying to reach disillusioned, depressed and unhappy teens.
It helps them tackle problematic choices and difficult situations by building 'emotional resilience' in a game format that includes candid real-life video stories from various celebrities and sports stars.
SuperMe was produced by Somethin' Else for Channel 4 in partnership with the creative studio Preloaded, and is based on principles of positive psychology. As well as videos, there are facts, quotes and probing questions to help players build life skills and deal more positively with bad experiences.
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Baldacci ‘True Blue’ - TV Ad
Here's a TV advert I sound designed and mixed in June for MacMillan Publishing to publicise the new Novel ‘True Blue’ by best selling author David Baldacci. It was a collaboration between Kin Design and The Short Form Film Company. 3D animation and compositing by Alex Amelines.
It was aired on Channel 5 and FIVE US during broadcasts of CSI.
In Development
You should follow @papasangre himself here… he’ll be revealing more about the game before it’s released later in 2010.
This game is being developed by the dangerous minds at Somethin’ Else. It has been supported by 4iP (the paramilitary wing of the UK’s Channel 4).
In alphabetical order, the development team includes Paul Bennun, Ben Cave, Adam Hoyle of Do Tank, Margaret Robertson, Nick Ryan and Tassos Stevens of Coney.
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VOLVO Subject 60 Viral Film
Production studio Mainframe and Creative Director Merlin Nation commissioned me to sound design/score this viral film Subject 60 campaign launching the new Volvo V60 vehicle.
The films advertised 5 ‘secret’ parties in Barcelona, Berlin, Madrid, Paris and London. A competition encouraged people to find hidden ‘Code Cubes’ distributed around each city that would enable them to gain entry. Once inside, guests were unwittingly taking part in a covert social experiment...
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“This is the Order” magazine front cover
I was asked by Rebecca Wright and Erasmus Brand Consultancy last year if could devise a printed magazine cover that produces sound. Together, Rebecca and I set about designing an interactive printwork (using embossing and foilblocking techniques) that allowed readers of the magazine to ‘hear’ a series of popular musical rhythms.
By printing the ‘duo-phonic’ rhythmic components of distinctive musical genres, as embossed ridges on the magazine cover, readers are able to run their fingernails over the cover surface and, as my article on the inside cover explains, experience the rhythms haptically (though touch) and sonically through the atonal ‘clicks’ it produces.
Click here to launch the online viewer. Thanks Rebecca, Sarah and all at Erasmus for making this piece happen...
