Posts Tagged ‘Composers’
Concept Art for new Short Film
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We’re writing the music for a new short film by Director Ben Jacobson (@benjjacobson). Here’s some of the Concept art for the locations:
The concept art is by Emma Fitzpatrick – http://www.emmafitzpatrick.co.uk
We plan to have very simple music played on Ukeleles and mandolins. Farid from @valve_sound is going to be doing the post production sound.
Speak Soon
Maryann and Michael x
Animal ispy for iPad
Our music used for ToyTek’s youtube promotional video.
ToyTek used a track of ours called ‘Buh Bah’ for a promotional video of one of their products.
The track itself is a very popular track because of it’s quirky nature and we’ve had a lot of interest about it. Unfortunately through a few chains of bad luck the multitracks and original files for the track have been lost so without re-writing we can’t lengthen the track or edit it!
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Maryann and Michael x
Short Film – Something Blue finished Shooting
Something Blue
‘Something Blue’ the new short film we’re scoring is in the can.
Here’s the Directors vision for the film:
This 20 minute short juxtaposes the preparations for a big sister’s wedding, with a young boy’s struggle to claim his true identity.
With a very defined look and colour scheme, the film will have an ever changing mix between soft pinks and cold blues emphasising Charlie’s dream of womanhood in contrast to the bleak realities of life as a young boy.
Using reflective surfaces, taps, mirrors, windows, water, we are constantly reminded how important it is for the characters examine themselves and how they appear to the outside world. With constant referencing of gender stereotypes, Something Blue will heighten our sense of masculine and feminine whilst making us aware for some the world is not as simple as being pink or blue.
Through stunning cinematography and truthful and engaging performances Something Blue will be a moving and uplifting film that will make its audience reconsider its attitudes to things outside the accepted norms and rejoice in the beauty of a parent that loves its child unconditionally.
Speak Soon
Maryann and Michael x
Our Short Film ‘Self Help’ being distributed on DVD and online.
Directed by James Page – Self Help.
Late September 2009 and a small but dedicated crew descend upon Tamworth, in the heart of England. For three weekends the crew worked tirelessly, shooting at various locations around the area; the Castle Hotel, the local park, and a local builders merchants, BuildBase.
When James approached us about the music for ‘Self Help’ he described the film as being a balance between sad, funny and weird. He wanted the music to be slow , odd and eerie with a sad humour to it – something lofi and modern.
If you’d like to watch the film on IndieFlix visit the link below.
http://indieflix.com/film/self-help-32217/
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Maryann and Michael x
Cinematic Western Track
Midwest Adventures
We wrote MidWest Adventures last year. We used Cubase and the PLAY symphonic library. It’s always a challenge keeping realism in the instruments for tracks like this but I’m very pleased with how its turned out.
The big libraries like PLAY have multiple mic positions and we find that making the most of these mic positions really helps keeping the instruments sound believable.
Let us know what you think.
You can license the track from http://www.feltmusiclibrary.com
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Maryann and Michael x
Artwork with Music
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We like add artwork to our compositions, especially now with the integration between Soundcloud, linkedin and twitter. ie.. if you post a music with artwork on soundcloud – that picture will be displayed on the other social networking sites.
The Artwork below is by Daniel Kovacs.
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- Release
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- Flower
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- Inside Edge
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- Fringe
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- Muin
I love seeing how someone else in another artistic field interprets our music.
Some of the tracks are available to listen to on the right, and you can hear the others at our soundcloud page. http://www.soundcloud.com/manikemusic
Speak Soon
Maryann and Michael x
First Blog Post
Ok , so I thought it was about time we started a proper blog.
I’ll give you a little background info on who we are. Were two composers working from a place called Phoenix Square in Leicester. We’re signed to a company called Felt Music and we write music mostly for Film , TV and Advertising though we do sometimes do other projects like games, audiobooks – that sort of thing.
We’re brother and sister and we started working with each other professionally after we scored the music for a Royal Shakespeare Company play called ‘The Pilate Workshop’ which was performed in ‘The Other Place’ , Stratford. We think it works composing together, – we’re good at different aspects of music writing, we’re able to critic each others work – be brutally honest with each other and not fall out over it. It allows us to talk things through and be completely sure we’re going in the direction we think is best.
I don’t want to make these things too long so I’ll finish there for today. Why not follow us on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/manikemusic
and have a peek at our website http://www.manikemusic.com
Speak soon
Maryann and Michael x
