Simon Wilkinson | Atmospheric Music For Documentaries, Films & YouTube
Intro theme music to feature film The Club (Logun Media) starring Treva Etienne (Black Hawk Down, Pirates Of The Caribbean), my first feature film score. Marching military snares and atmospheric synth washes give the track an air of mystery and intrigue. This track is available to fully license for use in your own films or trailers.
Another beautiful time lapse film from Eric Hines, this one’s called Fall Timelapse Collection and features my music track Outpost 31. Outpost 31 is a dark, dramatic and atmospheric instrumental soundtrack with an epic, atmospheric, icy winter feel.
You can download the track or license it for use in your own films, trailers and videos from my online music shop here:
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 Chase is a fast-paced and tense instrumental action music track ideal for car chases or energetic action scenes. Percussive electronic rhythms, piano, atmospheric synths, mystery and excitement. Music that would work well in fast paced action trailers or high speed film action or pursuit scenes. License this track by selecting from the options above.
ITV1’s Real Crime television documentary series will be featuring my music throughout the episode Bringing Down the Gooch -- Real Crime with Mark Austin to be broadcast nationally this Monday 27th September on ITV1.
This episode focuses on the story of the specialist police team who took down the leaders of feared criminals, Manchester’s Gooch Gang. The show airs on Monday 27th September at 22:35 on ITV1 and you’ll hear my music throughout!
Update: here’s the first of three parts of the show Bringing Down the Gooch – Real Crime with Mark Austin on YouTube (you should be able to find the other 2 parts of the show at the end of this clip, or just search for them on YouTube):
My music features throughout the documentary, alongside tracks from DJ Shadow and a few other pieces of music. If you’re interested in licensing any of my music for your own film or documentary, please get in touch here.
Another talented photographer has created a new time lapse video featuring more of my music. This time Harley Grady has created a piece called The Milky Way which uses my track Atlantis as the soundtrack (Atlantis can be found on my Royalty Free Music Collection Volume 2).
Harley’s Milky Way video consists of a series of time lapse videos shot between October 2010 and July 2011. You can read details of the equipment he used in the Youtube video description here.
Check out Harley’s Youtube channel for lots more time lapse videos and you can also see still photos from his work on Flickr.
If you’d like to license any of my music for your own videos, films or documentaries, I have a library of music in a range of styles from dark atmospheric ambient soundscapes to dramatic orchestral action tracks and many more, all available from my music download shop here.
Upbeat but mellow old school groove with DJ scratching, bass, flute and guitar. Ideal for quick trailers or short promo spots.
Short dance music sting with a Latin flavour ideal for use in short commercials, adverts, promos or stings needing an upbeat sophisticated flavour.
The 5th volume of my low cost royalty free music collections for film & documentary makers is now available from my online shop.
Royalty Free Film & Documentary Music Vol.5: Cinematic Piano contains 13 tracks (48 minutes) of atmospheric, melancholy, tense, dark (and some lighter) piano tracks aimed at film and documentary makers looking for suitable music to use in their films at a low price with no additional licensing worries.
Listen to full previews of all 13 tracks and instantly buy and download the music as either an mp3 or wav download:
www.thebluemask.com/royalty-free-film-documentary-music-vol-5-cinematic-piano
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.
