My name is Michael and welcome to my portfolio website and blog. Here I document my adventures in cinematic music creation and more.
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All in Animation
We have been busy over several months working with Leatherhead local George Jarvis to bring his first commercial project “Panama Rose” to life!
My friend and colleague Steve Hope-Wynne over at Tangitise Ltd approached me with a brief to compose a short music score complimenting the branding for his company branding and voice over introduction.
I decided to take a modern-meets-elegant approach and employed the use of synthesisers, flutes, strings, horns, pianos and light percussion to complete the piece.
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After the recent success of the Frankie Fraser online documentary which hit 35,000 views in just one month, I recently collaborated with my friends Louis Frost and Bob Taylor of Silver Lining Pictures to produced yet another original score for another short animated documentary, this time focused on the notorious London gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray.
Silver Lining provided me with just a few drawings of which I was to base a 13 minute composition on, this was a real challenge for me as I'm so used to composing directly to picture. I was told the music would need to be atmospheric, but still musical and repeat but still change in timbre and mood, below are the results.
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I have just heard that Meredith Strandquist’s “Æ Har Det Bare Bra”; a short animated film I designed the sound for has been entered into the festivals!
The film was shown at the following film festivals during 2013, winning 3rd place on two occasions and receiving some great feedback from Innsbruck, very well done Meredith!
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