Simon Wilkinson | Atmospheric Music For Documentaries, Films & YouTube
15 second Hollywood style company logo fanfare starting with trumpets and French horns building to full orchestra and percussion hit. Ideal introductory music for a company logo, opening title sequence, credits or similar introductory audio ident or branding at the start of a film, trailer or video production.
Here’s a short clip from episode 2 of the TV documentary show Evolution: The Grand Experiment that I finished scoring the music soundtrack for earlier this year. The show features some stunning nature footage and underwater photography (seen in the video here) and the soundtrack includes more orchestral arrangements as well as acoustic guitar, piano and atmospheric ambient music.
The documentary film that I wrote the music soundtrack for, Evolution: The Grand Experiment, has just won 3 awards at the Visual Media Catalyst Conference held in St. Louis, Missouri.
The show picked up Crown Awards in three separate categories. The documentary won first place awards in Best Youth Film, first place in Best Curriculum, and second place in Best Documentary over $50,000.
The short film First Darkness by artists Wyllie O’Hagan, that I wrote the music for, has won two awards at the Monaco Film Festival: Best Art Short Film and Best Original Music Short Film.
Pictured here are Denise and Clare at the awards ceremony in Monaco with Sir David Jason (sadly I wasn’t able to make it to the ceremony!)
This is great news and my big congratulations to Clare & Denise! I’m very proud to have my music win the award and hope the film gets more recognition for Clare & Denise’s great work.
You can find out more about Wyllie O’Hagan’s film at the First Darkness Facebook page here. Click here for more details on the Angel Film Awards and here for the full list of 2010 winners -- I’m listed under the Short Film section.
My music track Bossa Lounge has been used in recent media spots for Cheez-Its. You can watch one of the light-hearted spots above and also license Bossa Lounge for your own video here.
Short 15 second instrumental music clip of upbeat crime jazz/funk suitable for short trailers, promos or commercial stings.
Uptempo muted picked jazz guitar, flute, hi hat drums and upright bass give this instrumental clip a fun, playful and mischievous feel similar to some of the tracks in David Holmes’ Ocean’s 11 heist soundtrack.
I’ve just released the 2nd in my series of royalty free music for film & documentary makers.
The collection features 45 minutes of dark atmospheric piano music and organic ambient soundscapes custom composed by an experienced film composer plus a license to use the music in unlimited film or documentary soundtracks without paying anything extra.
You can hear preview clips and instantly purchase the downloadable album directly from my shop by clicking the link below:
www.thebluemask.com/royalty-free-film-documentary-music-vol-2-more-piano-atmospheric-beds
Volume 3 of my Royalty Free music series for film and documentary makers is now up in my shop. This time the focus is on quirky upbeat plucked strings (cellos, violins, double bass), perfect for science, nature or human interest documenaries.
The royalty-free license allows filmmakers to use the music in unlimited film or documentary soundtracks without paying anything extra. You can hear preview clips and instantly purchase the downloadable album directly from my shop by clicking the link below:
www.thebluemask.com/royalty-free-film-documentary-music-vol3-animated-antics
As promised in the previous post, here’s a great featurette showing how composer team Asche & Spencer created the beautiful and hypnotic music soundtrack to the film Monster’s Ball, starring Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry.
The video shows how the team of composers worked to create a classic ambient and highly atmospheric score using guitar drones, piano and atmospheric soundscapes -- I love this soundtrack!
Check out this cool high altitude ballooning video from Michael Mönch which uses a weather balloon and 2,000 litres of helium to film a journey up to the outer reaches of the earth’s atmosphere. When the balloon finally bursts due to the low pressure at over 30,000 metres high, a parachute brings the camera safely back to earth and is located via GPS.
My ambient space music track Coronal Mass Ejection is used in the video.
