Recent News...

May 08 : Pitch going in for 'Stella Light'. David works with musicians Tim Harrison, Mel Thomas, Jared Williams, and Jean Hasse. To hear a wee bit of it, click THIS!

April 08 : 'Rolfe' (working title) becomes a short film

Thomas Whitworth

Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor

David Hamill

Composer, Location Sound Recordist, Sound Design/Track Lay and Assistant Editor

Jonathan Scott

Dubbing Mixer

April 08 : See Dave in Greenland at work as a Location Sound Recordist (opens in new window):

March 08 : Dave heads off to Ittoqqortoormiit in Greenland as a Location Sound Mixer to gather footage for a new documentary. Click the photo to hear the sound! (opens in new window)

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Photography by Nick Ledger.

March 08 : Pitching for British Airways 'Aquarium' commercial

February 08 : Pitch goes in for the new Ford commercial

December 07 : Reviews for 'The Killing of John Lennon' :

http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/films/article.html?in_article_id=78665&in_page_id=27

http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/liverpool-arts/2007/12/07/film-review-the-killing-of-john-lennon-64375-20219469/

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/12/film_weekly_goes_psycho_with_m.html

http://www.futuremovies.co.uk/review.asp?ID=777

Watch the TRAILER: here

 

December 07 : Exciting plans are being made with Producer/Director Sean Crotty for a short film with Pete Postlethwaite and Sue Johnston

October 07 : Pitch is in for the new Stella Artois advert - David works with musicians Jared Williams, Tim Harrison and Jean Hasse. To watch it, CLICK here

August 07 : Work complete on 'RIP TV' by Neil Ferguson - click here for a sample

July 07 : Samples for a new style of game show title music have been sent off for pitching!

June 07 : A new collaboration with Neil Ferguson on his recent short is coming up soon. Also Dave has been working on another pitch for Lexus.

June 07 : David is pitching for the new Clarks advert

May 07 : David is pitching for the new Pizza Hut advert

May 07 : David is pitching for the new HSBC advert

April 07 : Provisional plans for another collaboration with Tom Whitworth on a new short film...

March 07 : New work as Co-Orchestrator and Programmer for the score of Andrew Piddington's new feature The Killing of John Lennon. David is working alongside Bristol based composer Martin Kiszko. Further info and examples to come.

Dec 06: David's compositions are used in Flashback's new war documentary!

Dec 06: New work for racing driver Craig Dolby has been successfully received by promoters and advertising agencies this month. The promotional dvd was produced, written and directed by Tom Whitworth and is available for viewing at www.cue6.com (2nd half of 'commercial & advertising' showreel)

 

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A Directors take on music for film...

"In what way does music best enhance film?"

Director Francis Ford Coppola states:-

 

"Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives."

 

Director Martin Scorsese states:-

 

"Music and cinema fit together naturally. Because there's a kind of intrinsic musicality to the way moving images work when they're put together. It's been said that cinema and music are very close as art forms, and I think that's true. Take a filmmaker like Kubrick. He really understood the rhythmic impact of two images coming together. He also had an extraordinary feel for the pace or tempo, a musical term, of a given scene. And he knew that when you add a piece of music to a scene, and if it's just the right piece of music, hitting at just the right instant – like the refrain of Handel's Sarabande, the main theme from Barry Lyndon (1975), over the little boy's funeral procession, or 'Surfin' Bird' by the Trashmen fading up over the panning shot of the soldiers in the second half of Full Metal Jacket (1987), or the use of the 'Blue Danube Waltz' in 2001 : A Space Odyssey (1968)– you've given that scene an extra dimension, a sense of mystery, of life beyond the frame, that it would not have had otherwise. Of course, that's very hard to do. It requires a lot of concentration. Because it's very easy for the music to become a kind of security blanket, for the filmmakers and then for the audience. It's bad enough when it's used for nostalgic purposes, or when it's used to place a scene in time, but there's nothing worse than when music is used to tell the audience what they should be feeling. Unfortunately, it happens all the time."

Music Video Director Chris Harding (Shynola) states:-

(Music videos for Radiohead's Pyramid song and The Rapture's House of Jealous Lovers, among others)

"Music is a powerful tool in film making, it can add layers of emotion, or even change the impact of a sequence entirely, but it can be a short cut to emotion and can make directors lazy. An example of really inspired use of music is the climax of Rintarô's animated re-interpretation of the sci-fi classic Metropolis (2001). A huge doomsday device is exploding in mind boggling anime detail, whilst Ray Charles' version of 'I can't stop loving you' plays, transforming a catastrophic event into a thing of sombre beauty."

Excerpts from bfi site - http://www.bfi.org.uk/