Yessian composer Dan Zank recently scored the music themes for the new Bob Costas show “Costas Tonight” on NBC Sports. The show kicked off for Super Bowl XLVI live from Indianapolis and will continue to air through Super Bowl weekend and beyond on NBC.
Yessian has formed a partnership with composer John Debney to collaborate on brand and advertising projects. Debney’s film and television credits includeThe Princess Diaries, Spy Kids, Sin City, Iron Man 2 and Bruce Almighty. His recent projects include the film scores for Yogi Bear, No Strings Attached andNew Year’s Eve. He was nominated for an Academy Award for the soundtrack to The Passion of the Christ.
Ikea “Manifesto” is on SHOOT’s Top 10 Winter Tracks for 2011
Written for a global Pampers/UNICEF initiative, the song took off on YouTube and is now available as a full-length download.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/kiss-single/id484418528
We’ve done it again! This marks our 7th consecutive appearance on the Shoot Top 10 list.
Well, we did it! Our Nokia “Don’t Fence Me In” spot has won for the Best of Music Arrangements category at the 2011 AICP show at the MoMa in New York City. The show celebrates the art and technique of the American commercial and will live within the permanent collection at the museum.
Our newest Sound Designer / Mixer, Weston Fonger, is working on a project that’ll help make a classic fly. For the past few months Fonger has been busy collaborating with renowned animator and former cartoonist, Bill Plympton and his team to help resurrect and restore Winsor McCay’s animated short film The Flying House (1921-2011).
Fonger is working with famous animator, cartoonist, director and screenwriter Bill Plympton, who, with some assistance from his crew and animation students from the New York area, has been devoting time to completely update The Flying House, an animated film by the legendary and prolific cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay. The film is currently getting a makeover using the latest renovation techniques along with colorization, added music and sound design, as well as the addition of Patricia Clarkson and Matthew Modine, whose voices bring life to the dialogue which had originally been created using only dialogue balloons.
McCay considered by many to be the “father of animation.” His groundbreaking animated film Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) is said to represent the first ever cartoon character to have a personality. He was also well known for his newspaper comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905-1914 and 1924-1927). Unfortunately his animation career was cut short when his employer William Randolph Hearst expressed he felt McCay was neglecting his drawing duties with the newspaper. The Flying House was his last film.
To help fund or spread awareness for The Flying House restoration please visit the KickStarter project page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1632099201/winsor-mccay-resurrection-project
Some of you might not know this, but 2011 is the UN International Year of Forests so the German state of NRW has created a campaign called Mensch Wald which is designed to send a resounding message to the world about the need for forest preservation. The PSA encourages filmmakers to enter an international competition to create short films about forests to support the forest preservation initiative. We worked with Traffic Konzept and Film GmbH/Berlin to create hopeful music and sound design to help lend inspiration for this great cause.
Credits:
http://www.menschwald.nrw.de
Landesbetrieb Wald und Holz
Nordrhein-Westfalen – Germany
United Nations – Year of the Forests
Director: Axel Baur
Production Company/Agency: Traffic Konzept + Film GmbH/Berlin
Post Production: Uncle/Berlin
Music + Sound Design: Yessian/Hamburg
