Showing posts with label Film Composer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Film Composer. Show all posts

Wednesday 24 August 2022

How to Compose Music for Film and TV

1. Music Composition Basics

Music composition is the process of composing original pieces of music for use in films, TV shows, video games and commercials etc. There are many different ways to go about composing music for these types of projects. One way is to start with a theme and then write variations on that theme. Another method is to start with a mood and chord progressions and then write melodies that fit that mood. A third option is to start with a scene and then write a melody that fits that scene.

2. Film Scoring Basics

Film scoring is the process of writing original music for use in movies. In order to do this properly, you need to understand how sound works in film. Sound in film is created using two primary methods: recording and editing. Recording refers to capturing sounds directly onto tape or digital audio files. Editing refers to manipulating those recordings to create the final product.

3. Writing for Film

Writing for film involves taking a script, or working with the visuals and breaking down each scene with the film director to discuss his or her musical vision. This is known as the 'spotting session'. Each character 'could' have their own unique musical motif. What's important is that the music supports or accentuates any dialogue or emotional context.

4. Orchestration

Orchestrating means arranging various instruments together to make a complete piece of music. When orchestrating, keep in mind that each instrument has its own range of pitch and volume. You'll want to find a balance between the instruments' ranges and volumes and balance them harmonically and tonally.

5. Mixing

Mixing is the process of combining several tracks of recorded music into one cohesive track. You'll want to listen to the finished mix and make any necessary adjustments before sending it off.

6. Recording Studio Basics

The recording studio is where the actual recording takes place. Studios vary in size, equipment, and cost. However, no matter what type of studio you choose, you'll need to know how to operate it or have an engineer on hand.

7. Post-Production Basics

Post-production is the process of making changes to a completed project after it has been mixed and mastered. This includes things like adding special effects, changing the length of a song, or adding additional vocals.


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Monday 21 March 2022

Journify Your World | Jon Brooks Music


It was an absolute pleasure composing and orchestrating the music for 'Journify'.
Many thanks to Paul Morrison at Maveriq Studios for having me on board.

Music Composer: Jon Brooks
Vocalist: Michelle Lee Williams
Audio Mix: Lee Williams
Audio Production: Maveriq Studios

Welcome to a new travel and lifestyle experience by Malaysia Aviation Group. Download the Journify app or visit myjournify.com to discover new places, plan a trip and shop your favourites.

Wednesday 6 October 2021

Orchestral Bundle | Download Logic Pro X Templates | Film Composition and Music Production


Instantly download 20 fully produced Logic Pro X projects composed and produced for film and television productions by award winning music composer Jon Brooks. Download bundle: https://bit.ly/orchestralbundle DOWNLOAD SIZE:  8.80 GB (Gigabytes) Templates include film scores and soundtracks orchestrated for movies, animations, television shows, TV commercials, corporate videos and social media. Jon's clients and credits include: Walt Disney, BMW, Coca Cola, NescafĂ©, Sony Playstation, Adidas, T-Mobile, Kentucky Fried Chicken, The National Lottery, Breitling, Xiaomi, Adobe, Mercedes-Benz, Pepsi, Yakult, Panasonic, X-Box, Black Sheep Games, MINI, Sony Music, Toyota and Strepsils. Purchasing the Logic Pro templates as a bundle provides a huge discount in comparison to purchasing the templates individually. Contact Jon if you have any queries. LOGIC PRO X TEMPLATES IN THE BUNDLE:
  1. Army of Doom
  2. Allelujah
  3. Breaking News
  4. Cybernetic Organism
  5. Deeper Realms
  6. Discovery
  7. Drowning
  8. Horizon
  9. Metamorphosis
  10. National Day
  11. New World
  12. Ocean Odyssey
  13. Once Upon a Time
  14. Phoenix Rising
  15. Prayer for Peace
  16. Prodigal Father
  17. The Confrontation
  18. The Power of Dreams
  19. Victory
  20. Wrong Time Wrong Space
Download bundle: https://bit.ly/orchestralbundle About Jon Brooks: Jon has been working professionally in the music production industry for over 20 years. You can check out his IMDB profile here. He was trained classically from the age of 6 and gravitated towards composition at school. He holds an MA in Film and Television Composition (Kingston University, London) and is an accomplished pianist and french horn player. Since 2012 he has run his own recording studio, based in Stockport (UK) specialising in music and audio production. About the Logic Pro X Templates: The templates are useful for learning the craft of music production within Logic Pro X whether you're writing for film, television, corporate videos, animation series, advertising or social media. Learn how to orchestrate and program MIDI, arrange music, mix and master from observing the professional techniques used within the downloadable DAW templates. The LPX templates are intended as educational resources, however, the templates can also be used for your commercial productions as long as your composition is significantly different from the original production. Note: You may have to replace some of the sampler instruments or plugins for similar ones unless you have them yourself; otherwise playback might be a little different. Settings, automation, mixed elements and mastering chains are included; but not the sample library audio content (due to sample library copyright terms). SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS YouTube Logic Pro X Templates: https://www.youtube.com/hairybigger YouTube Jon Brooks: https://www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/JonBrooksComposer SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jonbrooks-1 Website: http://www.jonbrooks.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/JonBrooks_Music Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonbrookscomposer/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jonbrookscomposer Download Logic Pro bundle on Sellfy: https://bit.ly/orchestralbundle Thank you for your purchase!

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Monday 27 September 2021

The Warrior | Jon Brooks (Epic and Dramatic Heroic Orchestral Film/Gaming Music)


'The Warrior' composed and produced by Jon Brooks. Epic and dramatic heroic orchestral film soundtrack music / orchestra gaming music.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JonBrooksComposer Website: http://www.jonbrooks.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/JonBrooks_Music SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jonbrooks-1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonbrookscomposer TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jonbrookscomposer Influential film composers include: Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Michael Kamen, Patrick Doyle, Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, Ennio Morricone, James Horner, Howard Shore, Alan Silvestri, Michael Giacchino, Harry Gregson-Williams, Randy Newman, Clint Mansell, Ramin Djawadi, James Newton Howard, Klaus Badelt, John Powell. #heroicorchestra #heroicmusic #thewarrior

Monday 20 April 2020

Ghostly War now has over 1.7k YouTube Views in 1 week!


Both Joanne and I are delighted to say that the message within our song 'Ghostly War' about uplifting people during the Coronavirus lockdown has had an incredible reception so far. It has been shared hundred's of times by friends, family and colleagues on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and various other social media platforms.

The highlight our our week was when Steve Benz at WSDI FM Radio interviewed us both live and debuted our music track. The response has been amazing. Thank you Steve and thanks so much to everyone for your kind words, shares and support. Love and compassion always. <3

Here's a link to 'Ghostly War' by Joanne Staples on Youtube: https://youtu.be/HINep_Yl2KA

Monday 13 April 2020

GHOSTLY WAR | Joanne Staples (Music Video) | Couple during Coronavirus Lockdown Create Viral Song



GHOSTLY WAR (Music Video) Couple during coronavirus lockdown write a meaningful and emotional song to uplift and inspire the world through the Coronavirus pandemic. Sales director and film composer couple create viral song.

Music and lyrics by Jon Brooks and Joanne Staples.
© 2020 Jon Brooks/Joanne Staples.
Please contact Jon to license the song (or instrumental) for your production.
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/JonBrooksComposer
Sound Cloud: https://soundcloud.com/jonbrooks-1
Website: http://www.jonbrooks.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JonBrooks_Music
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer

LYRICS

----- Verse 1 -----
Breathe, just keep breathing
Just keep going, time to face a new day
On we go, coming together
In these strange times
Alone, scared, fear building inside of all of us
Tears, pain, when will this all end?

----- Chorus -----
We’ll fight this together,
With love and compassion.
Whatever the reason,
We’ll win this ghostly war.
United we’ll stand tall.
Brave people, hear our call.
Whatever we’re facing,
We’ll win this ghostly war.

----- Verse 2 -----
Breath don’t stop moving.
You can do this, the sun will always shine.
Hope is in our children, so hold them tight.
Love, peace, joy, inside of all of us.
Change, forever, nothing will ever be the same.

----- Chorus -----
We’ll fight this together,
With love and compassion.
Whatever the reason,
We’ll win this ghostly war.
United we’ll stand tall.
Brave people, hear our call.
Whatever we’re facing,
We’ll win this ghostly war.

----- Instrumental -----

----- Chorus -----
We’ll fight this together,
With love and compassion.
Whatever the reason,
We’ll win this ghostly war.
United we’ll stand tall.
Brave people, hear our call.
Whatever we’re facing,
We’ll win this ghostly war.

With love and compassion,
We'll win this ghostly war.

#coronavirus #covid19 #coronavirussong

Tuesday 24 March 2020

Download professional Logic Pro X templates.

Download professional, ready mixed and mastered Logic Pro X templates by film composer Jon Brooks. Styles include dramatic orchestral instrumental music, children's music, pop songs, audio idents, epic orchestra, world music, corporate music and music for advertising.

Monday 24 February 2020

The Power of Dreams | Logic Pro X Template Download (Jon Brooks)

LOGIC PRO X TEMPLATE DOWNLOAD (Full Project)
(The download in the .zip includes the full mix bounce down for reference too).

"The Power of Dreams" LPX template by film composer Jon Brooks is a short dramatic orchestral film instrumental which includes all the MIDI programming, orchestration, arrangement, mixing and expression etc. Bold, powerful and uplifting. Big, melodic drama inducing a motivational and inspiring feel. Ideal for depicting motivation and success. Influences include Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard, Danny Elfman and Jerry Goldsmith. The style is ideal for advertising commercials projecting achievement and growth, sci-fi and adventure film trailers, movies and corporate videos.

Music composed, orchestrated and produced in Logic Pro X by Jon Brooks.


LPX Template
Track Duration:  0:40
Tempo BPM: Varies
Key: Eb Major
Download Size: 12.3 MB
Uncompressed Size: 16.6 MB

Note:  It's likely that you may have to replace some of the instruments or plugins for similar ones unless you have them all yourself; otherwise playback might be a little different.

- Audio Channels:  2
- MIDI Channels:  20
- Aux/Buses: 1
- Stereo Main Out:  1

PLUGINS / SAMPLE LIBRARIES:
Channel EQ (Logic Pro X Factory Plugin)
Compressor (Logic Pro X Factory Plugin)
SilverVerb (Logic Pro X Factory Plugin)
AdLimter (Logic Pro X Factory Plugin)
EXS24 (Logic Pro X Factory Plugin)
Synthogy Ivory II (Piano)
Vienna Instruments Special Edition Vol. 1 & Vol. 1 PLUS
Vienna Instruments Special Edition Vol. 2 & Vol. 2 PLUS
Project SAM Symphobia (Kontakt)
VSL Timpani (EXS24)
VSL Epic Horns (EXS24)

PATCHES:
Cymbal Crash
Cymbal Rolls
Strings Sus (Symphobia Str Ens Sus)
Strings Stacc (Symphobia Str Ens Staccato)
Violins Spiccato (VSL Orchestral Strings)
Cellos Staccato (VSL Orchestral Strings)
Violins 1 (VSL Legato Orchestral Violins)
Violins 2 (VSL Legato Orchestral Violins)
F Horns 1 (VSL Legato French Horns a4)
F Horns 2 (VSL Legato French Horns a4)
Cellos 1 (VSL VC-8 Legato)
Cellos 2 (VSL VC-8 Legato)
Cellos 3 (VSL VC-8 Legato)
Cellos 4 (VSL VC-8 Legato)
Double Bass (VSL DB-6 Legato)
Trombones (VSL TB-a3 Sustain)
Timpani (VSL Tmp_MD_trem-cre3_4s)
Piano (Ivory II American Concert D II)
Woodwind (Symphobia Ens Staccato short)
F Horns HO-8_cre2_3s (VSL Epic Horns)
Trumpet (VSL TrC Legato)
Piccolo (VSL PFL Legato)

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/JonBrooks_Music

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About Jon:
Jon Brooks is a British Film and TV composer based in South Manchester, UK. He studied music at Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge) followed by a Masters degree in Composition for Film and TV at Kingston University (London). Jon previously worked as an in-house composer in one of the best recording studios in Malaysia before returning to the UK to set up his own recording facility. He specialises in music production and library music for film, TV, advertising, sonic branding, animation series and corporate videos.

Jon is accomplished on piano and french horn and has performed on stage with Richard Clayderman, auditioned for Nigel Martin-Smith, performed at a variety of venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Kuala Lumpur’s Twin Towers and at the Vatican, Rome. He also had the privilege of performing for the Queen in London during her Jubilee Tour.

Writing from his purpose built recording studio based in South Manchester, UK, his clients and credits include: Walt Disney, Coca Cola, Sony Playstation, Breitling, Jaclyn Victor (Malaysian Idol winner), Cadburys, Oxford University Press, Pepsi, X-Box, KFC, Malaysia Airlines, Unilever, Sony Music, Panasonic, Strepsils, Xiaomi, Pantene and Toyota.

Tuesday 17 December 2019

Logic Pro X Templates (https://logicpro-templates.sellfy.store)



Download Logic Pro X Templates: https://logicpro-templates.sellfy.store
Learn, observe and analyse audio and midi programming, editing, mixing, arrangement, plugins, and mastering techniques within the downloadable Logic Pro X templates.
Templates and styles include: Film Scores, Children's Music, Epic dramatic Orchestral, TV Commercial Jingles, Electronic, World Music, Pop Music, New Age Music, Classical Music, Instrumental Music, Songs, Library Music, Background Music and Soundtracks.
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Official Website: http://www.jonbrooks.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JonBrooks_Music
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Thursday 18 July 2019

Evil Darkness | Jon Brooks | Suspenseful Dark Ambient Cinematic Music





Suspenseful evil darkness builds in this intense and dark ambient cinematic instrumental. Orchestral strings, synthesizers, brass clusters, dramatic percussion and metallic scraping sounds resonate within a haunting, terrifying and menacing tension bed. Mysterious, ominous and foreboding background film score music with a disturbing edge of seat mood.



Film Composer: Jon Brooks

Music production for film, TV and advertising.



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Monday 17 June 2019

♫ Production Music Library, Vol. 4 - Tracksonix



Track Listing:

1. "A Mystery Unfolds"
Mysterious, suspenseful and dark eerie dramatic music tension unfolds featuring dark synthesizers, piano, harp, strings, bending trombones, percussion, Indian drones and scraping metallic sounds. Ideal for edge of the seat underscore drama, nighttime scenes, horror, psychological thrillers and film scores. Cinematic, ominous driving instrumental background music with a thrilling sense of urgency and building tension that resolves to a calmer outro.

2. "Corporate Technology"

3. "Let’s Talk"
Beautiful, pensive and emotional tinkling piano and strings background instrumental film music ideal for underscoring a romantic or heartfelt narrative.

4. "Backyard Buddies (Instrumental)"

5. "Evil Darkness"
Suspenseful evil darkness builds in this intense and dark ambient cinematic instrumental. Orchestral strings, synthesizers, brass clusters, dramatic percussion and metallic scraping sounds resonate within a haunting, terrifying and menacing tension bed. Mysterious, ominous and foreboding background film score music with a disturbing edge of seat mood.

6. "Funky CPR"
Upbeat, quirky and funky groove with a retro and vintage funk pop positive mood. Featuring groovy bass guitar, wah wah guitar, percussion and heart monitor beeps. Cool, energetic, fun and happy optimistic music. Ideal for advertising, corporate videos, transitions, summer or a generic background music bed.

7. "A Sad Story"
Sad, emotional and touching piano and orchestral film music. Romantic, sentimental and pensive with a yearning for acceptance, validation and love. Music expresses what cannot be said. Ideal for scenes related to romance, death, lovers, a funeral, illness, sickness and sorrow.

8. "Goodnight Bollywood"
Ethnic Indian tabla, strings and optimistic piano music gradually transitioning into the peaceful night. Luminescent, flowing, tender and heartwarming. Ideal for a transition from day to night time or for a travel documentary. Percussive intro leading to a calm, relaxed and serene end of day sun down resolution.

9. "Retribution"
Classical, minimalistic and progressive instrumental music bed with an inquisitive and mysterious yet emotional mood. Ideal for a documentary or background music for a drama series or film. Other uses may include crime, nature, travel and thoughtful scenes. A modern chamber ensemble featuring neo classical piano, pizzicato strings, glockenspiel and upright bass.

10. "Aftermath"
Ominous, dark and foreboding strings accompanied by an Indian Esraj and low piano notes portraying a doomed, cinematic and grave aftermath. Sinister, evil, gloomy and eerie orchestral instrumental with a flavour of India. Disturbing, bleak and dreary underscore.

11. "Who Cares"
Quirky and playful instrumental background music.

12. "Dreaming of Home"
Sentimental, relaxed and emotional orchestral underscore music. Instilling hope, beauty and a touching heartfelt emotive mood along with sadness and nostalgic thoughts. Music builds to a brighter resolution. Ideal for romantic, thoughtful and pensive scenes with a passionate and bittersweet undercurrent. Instrumentation features piano, strings, synth, harp, oboe and french horn.

13. "Blood of the Dead"
Suspenseful, dark and foreboding cinematic orchestral film music. Ominous, menacing and chilling instrumental music ideal for a tense thriller, horror suspense scene or Halloween with a dramatic, sinister, gloomy and eerie undercurrent. Watch out, evil tension is looming!

14. "Forgive Me"
Emotional, touching and heartfelt film music expressing a yearning for pity, mercy and absolution. Sparse sentimental piano, strings and bassoon beg for forgiveness in this poignant romantic and emotive heart-rending score. Expressing disappointed anguish, despair and grieving for a loved one.

15. "Frisky Kids"
Bouncy, happy and energetic fun kids instrumental music rising harmonically to create a feeling of progression. Playful, upbeat and cheerful background music ideal for any jovial cartoon, comedic or perky video production accompaniment. Excited children’s music with a range of moods covered from uplifting, playful, whimsical, bright, cheerful, inspiring, optimistic, cheeky, comical, quirky, cartoon, cheery to amusing. Lighthearted underscore with a merry, jolly, wacky, goofy, crazy, amusing, comedy, gag, hilarious feel. Ideal as a joke theme with a silly, lively, joyful, perky, smiley, chirpy, carefree, happy go lucky, sprightly, vivacious and sunny disposition. Instrumentation features piano, flute, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, orchestral percussion, drums, harp, piccolo, clarinet, tambourine and bassoon.

16. "Haunted Halloween"
Haunted and spooky theremin instrumental Halloween music with a dark, creepy and scary suspenseful mood. Ideal for Halloween horror, trick or treat and frightening productions drawing on influences from John Carpenter and Danny Elfman. Loopable instrumental in C Minor. Mysterious, evil, ghastly and spine-chilling music expressing suspense, tension and a foreboding demonic presence.

17. "Indian Adventure"
Indian orchestral film music underscore with ethnic instruments ideal for an emotional and beautiful adventure in India with western orchestra influences. Instruments featured include tabla, sitar, strings, flute, oboe and harp. Asian fusion ethnic instrumental music.

18. "Raindrops"
Relaxing, ambient and peaceful new age instrumental music for healing, chronic fatigue, anxiety, yoga, mindfulness, reiki, massage, stress, reflexology, sleep disorders and other relaxation techniques. The tempo and emotional mood of this background instrumental is designed to encourage breathing and heart rate to slow down. Raindrops beautiful instrumental music to boost physical and emotional health whilst promoting inner peace and healing the soul. Ideal for nature, sleep, night time, calmness, massage, spa music, slow and sentimental tranquil productions.

19. "Looming Evil"
Dark ambient suspenseful cinematic music bed building to an intense, disturbing and scary climax. Instrumentation features orchestral strings swells, synthesisers, evil wailing metallic scraping, ambient synth pads, percussive hits, bending trombones and tubular bells. This chilling and mysterious soundscape is easy to loop, edit or extend to a tension build if required. Ideal for a psychological thriller TV drama, horror film score or twisted video game soundtrack. Creepy, tense and gory nightmare instrumental music with a distressing, looming and harrowing undercurrent.

20. "Sentimental Romance"
Romantic, sentimental and emotional piano classical film music. Touching, light and heartfelt emotive instrumental ideal for slow background music during intimate, thoughtful and melancholy scenes. Beautiful, gentle and slow sorrowful music ideal for heartbreak or loss of a loved one.

21. "Indian Mystery"
Mysterious, apprehensive and foreboding background instrumental film music with ethnic Indian instruments and ominous western orchestral elements. Sinister, evil and cinematic orchestra with a dark uneasy and edge of the seat mood. Instrumentation features tabla from India, strings, tambura, sitar, harp, brass and piano.

22. "They're All Gone"
Emotional, touching and heartfelt orchestral film music with a sense of calm yet inquisitive sad loneliness. Sad emotive instrumental background music expressing a thoughtful mind with sorrow and a pensive sentimental yearning. Instrumentation features strings, french horn, harp, piano, clarinet and flute.

23. "Uncle Bill (Instrumental)"
Fun, playful and upbeat children’s music instrumental background music bed.

24. "Deeper Dreams"
Relaxing, dreamy and hypnotic music with a fusion of electronic and acoustic instruments for a totally ambient chill out. Relaxation music to calm the body and mind and promote healing. This music is very popular with those suffering with anxiety and stress. Calming new age music that allows time to slow down; reduce stress and anxiety with this soothing, relaxing music. "Deeper Dreams" is ideal for healing (both physical and emotional), meditation, yoga, mindfulness, reiki healing, massage, reflexology, and other relaxation techniques. It is highly effective at inducing sleep and can be used as a way to help your brain get into a meditative state. The slow tempo and musical structure encourages the heart rate and breathing to slow down. This calming music is even more effective if you can listen with headphones on. Use 'Deeper Dreams' to help you combat negativity and a wide range of uncomfortable symptoms and sensations. Allow yourself some time to slow down; relieve stress and anxiety with this calming, relaxing music. Sit down (or lie down), close your eyes, take a few deep breaths and concentrate on the music to clear your mind. Be kind to yourself.

25. "Pensive Theory"
Pensive, sentimental and sorrowful piano and flute classical romantic music with a lonely, forlorn and sincere mood. Heartbroken, isolated and unhappy with a hopeless outlook. Depressed, compassionate and alone.

26. "Jana Gana Mana National Anthem India"
Indian national anthem Jana Gana Mana. Stirring traditional orchestral patriotic, gentle and anthemic royalty free music building and rising to a resolution. Originally composed and produced by Ram Singh Thakuri and Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal, India. Arranged by Jon Brooks. Ideal for royalty and regal background music and underscore use. 

27. "Please Stay"
Sentimental, emotional and heartfelt classical instrumental film music with an underlying sense of sorrow leading to a bright and happier resolution. Featuring piano, strings, synth, french horn and clarinet. Romantic, delicate and thoughtful background music bed.

28. "Silver Lining"
Calming new age music that allows time to slow down; reduce stress and anxiety with this soothing, relaxing music. Relaxing, dreamy and hypnotic music with a fusion of electronic and acoustic instruments for a totally ambient chill out. Relaxation music to calm the body and mind and promote healing. This music is very popular with those suffering with anxiety and stress. "Deeper Dreams" is ideal for healing (both physical and emotional), meditation, yoga, mindfulness, reiki healing, massage, reflexology, and other relaxation techniques. It is highly effective at inducing sleep and can be used as a way to help your brain get into a meditative state. The slow tempo and musical structure encourages the heart rate and breathing to slow down. This calming music is even more effective if you can listen with headphones on. Use 'Deeper Dreams' to help you combat negativity and a wide range of uncomfortable symptoms and sensations. Allow yourself some time to slow down; relieve stress and anxiety with this calming, relaxing music. Sit down (or lie down), close your eyes, take a few deep breaths and concentrate on the music to clear your mind. Be kind to yourself.

29. "Horn Sound"
Every sound in this composition, from the melodic to the percussive, the atmospheric effects to the bass originates from a Paxman French Horn. 

30. "Thoughtful"
Emotional and sentimental instrumental music with echoes of the past. Dreamy, thoughtful, pensive and slow. Reflecting the goodness of the innate kindness of human nature. Instrumentation features piano, harp, woodwind, vocal ahhs, percussion, french horn and strings. Starting with a sad and reflective theme, it builds to an airy and positive solution. Ideal for depicting dreams, nostalgia, Valentine’s Day lovers and memories of the past.


Tuesday 22 January 2019

Film Composer Interview - ICanCompose - Jon Brooks

ICanCompose.com has featured me in an interview... Click the link below to check out the interview.


Fellow ISM (Incorporated Society of Musicians) member Rachel Shapey joined me in the studio.
Music composition and production for Film, Television, Advertising and Sonic Branding.

Wednesday 9 January 2019

Dark Highlands - Horror Movie - OUT NOW

DARK HIGHLANDS

Now out in the USA and Canada on cable, Blu-ray, Streaming, Download and DVD.
December 2018

A Japanese artist visiting the Highlands of Scotland, is about to find out that one wrong word can get you into a lot of trouble. Especially when not everyone in Scotland, is friendly. When THE ARTIST crosses paths with the disgusting GAMEKEEPER - only one of them will leave the Highlands alive. Starring the multi award-winning Japanese actor, Junichi Kajioka (47 Ronin, Johnny English Strikes Again), Dark Highlands is a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across the vast, unforgiving wilderness of Scotland.


It's available at the following stores:

  • Amazon
  • iTunes
  • PrimeVideo
  • Google Play
  • Redbox
  • Vudu
  • Fandangonow
  • Microsoft
  • YouTube
  • Vimeo
  • Playstation
  • Comcast
  • Cod
  • Suddenlink
  • Shaw
  • EastLinkTV
  • Walmart
  • Barnes & Noble
  • Target
  • Alliance
Music Composer (Soundtrack): Jon Brooks
Digital Distributor: Gravitas Ventures
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes
Hats on Sticks Pictures



AWARDS and NOMINATIONS
  • WINNER - Best Feature Film (Scottish Independent Film Festival 2018)
  • WINNER - Best Scottish Director (Scottish Independent Film Festival 2018)