THE GALLOWS POLE - OPENING TITLES

TITLE DESIGN / ANIMATION

DIR: Shane Meadows | PROD: BBC / A24 / Element Pictures

Nominated - RTS CRAFT & DESIGN AWARDS: TITLES

Opening Title Sequence for BBC Two mini-series THE GALLOWS POLE.
The writer/director Shane Meadows wrote a descriptively apocalyptic account of the title sequence into the initial scripts. The sequence actually needed to function narratively, acting as visions of an awful post-Industrial future that are being shown to our lead character, David. Later in the series David references the things he has seen, so it was important to build a visually powerful and attention grabbing sequence.
I began working on the foundation of the title sequence as early as the assembly edit of the first episode. Over time I continued to layer it up and add animations in parallel to working on the main series edit. Later, Ed Kevill-Davies at Coffee&TV brought his design and animation skills onboard to help take it to another level, with some deranged images he created in Midjourney and extra layers of grime and filth. This material came back into the edit to be incorporated with the best of what we had already created, and this is the final result.

LIAM BAILEY - ON MY MIND

EDITOR

DIR: Michael Holyk | PROD: Sony Music Entertainment

Music video for Liam Bailey’s single On My Mind, taken from the album Definitely NOW.
Shot on a mixture of Sony F55 Super 35mm and an old video Hi-8 camera. We originally put out a version containing all Hi-8 material, but this is the director’s cut and definitely my favourite version.

DIRECTOR / CAMERA / EDITOR / COLOURIST

PROD: Houndstooth Label / Fabric London

Official video for Snow Ghosts’s single Vetiver, taken from the EP Husk. The song was awarded Track Of The Week by Drowned in Sound.
I created this video using a mixture of archive footage, illustrations from the British Library collection, and ink blots which I filmed and animated myself.

DIRECTOR / CAMERA / EDITOR / COLOURIST

PROD: Houndstooth Label / Fabric London

Official video for Snow Ghosts’s single Lied, taken from the EP Husk. The video premiered in THE INDEPENDENT who described it as “full of wonderful gothic drama”.
This video is a collage of archive footage, some footage of deers and wildlife that I shot myself, and a DIY Cloud Tank that I made with a vase and a children’s Calpol syringe.

FILM EDITOR / COLOURIST

DIR: Michael Holyk | PROD: Communion Records

Bear's Den: "Back in 2014 shortly after we embarked on our first ever headline tour, we took a bit of a detour and travelled up to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. We didn’t know it at the time, but that trip would be something that helped shape the band in ways we never expected it would."
"Now, five years later, with many other tours across the world under our belts, we decided it would be an amazing thing to try and reconnect with those places, and that feeling of being a band on the road, in a van, in the far flung and stunning Highlands and Islands of Scotland once again."
This is something of a hybrid between documentary and promo, where we attempted to tell the story of the tour with some great performance edits too.

FILM EDITOR / ADDITIONAL CAMERA

DIR: Michael Holyk | PROD: Universal Music / HolykMedia

On November 9th 2013, in the middle of an arena tour and on the verge of the release of his second album, Jake Bugg came to Nottingham to perform a secret gig to only 100 people. The venue, The Maze, was where he had played one of his first gigs at only 15-years-old.
A behind-the-scenes documentary and music promo hybrid. I also edited the full concert which was shared on the Jake Bugg official website.