Work

A selection of some of my favourite work from recent years, click on the cards for more info and videos

Ford Ecosport Sound Design

Ford – Ecosport

This ad for Ford from GTB has a lot of nice touches. Very classic from a sound point of view, but it comes together into a nice piece of work with some nice detail.

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Relish Sound Design

Relish Broadband

An animated introduction to Relish Broadband from the Corner. Narrated by David Mitchell and with a clear animation style it needed strong simple sound design punctuate the action.

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Cadburys Sound Design

Cadbury’s Referee

This charming film is littered with little thank yous for the seemingly unaware referee. A straightforward mix of live action, music and sound design come together to tell the story.

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Amazon GBBO Sound Design

Amazon – GBBO

A small selection of the many bumpers that Amazon produced for the Great British Bake Off. I worked on the sound design for half of these with the talented Alex Wilson-Thame taking on the other half.

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DFS Aardman Sound Design

DFS – Christmas

This ad is from DFS in partnership with Aardman animation. Aardman’s character’s are full of charm, as always! The mix was relatively straightforward with simple sound design and music, but the end result is a lot of fun.

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Argos Sound Design

Argos – Fast Track

When I first saw this ad I was worried I might have to dust off my 25 year old skateboard and knee pads and make a fool of myself at the local skate park. Thankfully the library had sufficient SFX and saved my blushes.

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Pizza Hut Healed Sound Design

Pizza Hut – Better

This TV ad for pizza hut starts simply enough but quickly takes a turn for the strange. It doesn’t take long to understand that the seasoning perhaps isn’t quite as magical as first thought.

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EE Techmas Sound Design

EE – Techmas

This is series of three ads for mobile brand EE, each one highlighting a feature of modern phones. The protagonist is a technophile grandma who adds a touch of octogenarian charm to proceedings.

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Quickbooks Sound Design

Quickbooks

A TV ad for Quickbooks accounting software. With a lot of information to get into 30s it was important that the mix be clear and the sound design be restrained whilst helping along the narrative.

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Google Expeditions Sound Design

Google – Expeditions

This is a film for Google to promote the expeditions on their Cardboard VR platform for smartphones. The action follows a young boy’s adventure to the depths of the ocean with his classmates. Wooaaaah!

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Ford Mondeo Sound Design

Ford – Mondeo

A promotional film highlighting the benefits of the new Ford Mondeo Hybrid. Part of the brief was to add elegant and calm movement to the car without any engine sound. Electric is the future.

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Tresemme Rosie Bea Sound Design

TRESemmé – Rosie Bea

This TV ad for TRESemmé features beauty blogger (or vlogger) Rosie Bea and is quite a classic beauty ad, there’s even a science bit! A fun music track and sound design to punctuate the action round things off.

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Google Yangzhou Launch

Google – A&C Launch

This is the launch film for Google’s Yangzhou Arts & Culture project. A unique virtual experience with loads of different exhibits about the region. The film is designed to give an overview of the exhibition and the sound design brief was to enhance the movement and keep interest.

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Dove Men + Care Sound Design

Dove Men + Care – Nelson

This was one of a series of 8 ads as a part of Dove Men’s #realdads campaign for both the UK and the US. This 15s ad features Nelson and was the TV ad. There were longer online and digital vsns.

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Co Op Funeral Care Sound Design

Co-op Funeralcare

This is an unusual ad for a funeral care service, focusing on an older gentleman’s love for his steam engine. I must say it’s not often I get to recreate the sound of a steam engine!

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Pizza Hut Xmas Box Sound Design

Pizza Hut – Xmas Box

An ad for Pizza hut promoting their Christmas box with a Christmas box of an entirely different kind. Innuendo, puns and a touch of tinsel foley for authentic Christmas boxiness.

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Amazon Empty Nest Sound Design

Amazon – Empty Nest

In this ad promoting Amazon’s wide variety of goods, two newly child-free parents have differing ideas of what to do with the room. It looks like mum wins, but hopefully the child doesn’t want to come home any time soon.

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Kwik Fit Sound Design

Kwik Fit – Radio

This fun radio ad from a series of 6 for Kwik Fit is out of this world. A lot of fun recording all the different parts and getting the effects right to tell the story.

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Nickelodeon Make It Pop Sound Design

Nick – Make It Pop

This promo for Nickelodeon music show Make It Pop is a good example of kid’s TV promos. Loud, fast, high energy and with a super quick narrative pace. Clarity and energy in the mix are key and creating the sound design for the graphics is always a pleasure.

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Amazon Easy Returns Sound Design

Amazon – Easy Returns

This TV and online ad for Amazon follows the tribulations of a woman buying a duplicate gift. Thankfully she has Amazon to call on for a homemade solution. A mix of live action, sound design and music.

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Nicktoons Earcons Sound Design

Nicktoons – Earcons

This was a long series of bumpers for the Nicktoons channel at halloween, each one different and designed around the sounds of specific shows. Listen out for my very best witchy laugh.

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Nicktoons TMNT Sound Design

Nicktoons – TMNT

Another promo for Nickelodeon, this time for the Nicktoon’s offering Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Included as another example of my promo work but also because TMNT was my childhood favourite!

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South Park Sound Design

MTV – South Park

This promo for South Park on MTV was inspired by the trailer for Prometheus. I enjoyed parodying the big over the top sound design a lot…and the change of course was quite fun too.

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Carphone Warehouse Sound Design

Carphone Warehouse

This ad for Carphone Warehouse quickly takes a turn for the strange. The brief was to make everything sound as though it’s in the loading bay. It was very low budget and there was very little time so I make a fair few cameos in this. I wonder if working in a warehouse is actually this fun?

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Public Health England Sound Design

Public Health England – Mental Health

This radio advert for the government’s Public Health England department is very simple, but there’s a deceptive amount of work and consideration gone into it. The excellent voice over performance switching from cold and distant to warm and hopeful over the course of the ad took some crafting.

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Line 9 Sound Design

Line 9

This is the launch film for action sports collective Line 9. I was tasked with adding sound design and bringing together the mix. The brief was to keep it high energy but still laid back and in line with the track an the company ethos.

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IBM Sound Design

Ogilvy – IBM

This series of 3 ads for IBM featured Dominic Cooper. Unfortunately the shoot sound was not usable so we had to ADR every last line! A couple of days later and we had these charming ads for the tech giant ready to go.

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TFL Contactless Sound Design

TFL – Contactless

This ad for TFL is getting a bit long in the tooth now, we’ve had contactless for some time after all, but it’s noteworthy as I both sound designed it and composed the music. If only I’d been able to do the voiceover too…

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