What We've Been Up To...

            It's been awhile, but we've been busier than ever. Recently, we created and took part in a short film festival, Pocket Fest. The idea of Pocket Fest came from Global EP, Mark Beckhaus. Teaming up with Inner City Filmmakers and local production companies, directors could use nothing more than their talent and the Kodak PlayTouch pocket camera to create a two-minute film. The ICF is a pivotal part of the festival. The disadvantaged students from the ICF were involved in all different elements of the festival. This made the film festival more than your average short film festival.

Nylon Studios provided the sound design and music for these films. We worked with top-notch directors including Workhorse Media’s Angela & Ithyle, Foundation Content’s Focus Creeps, Harvest Film’s The Hoffman Brothers, Gartner’s Ted Melfi, B-Reel Film’s The Colony, Bob Industries’ Harry Cocciolo, Independent Media’s Tom Foley, Superfad’s Justin Leibow, Insomniac Content’s Mel Rodriguez, Tool of North America’s Matt Ogens, and City Film’s Kevin Donovan.

The support Pocket Fest received did not go unrecognized. The events wouldn’t have been possible without the support from Ellen Knable/EKA, Michelle Morris, Poolhouse, Gabrielle Schary Casting, New Hat, General Editorial, Butcher Editorial, Union Editorial, The Mill, Mike Persichina, and Jordan Lister.

The first screening of Pocket Fest took place out in Los Angeles this past September. The event was such a success that brain behind Pocket Fest, Mark Beckhaus decided to hold another screening in New York City. The exclusive New York event took place at the Soho House on November 29^th. The New York screening was an intimate event but all of the short films were played on the Kodak jumbotron in Times Square prior to the event.

Be sure to keep an eye out on Nylon Studios as we plan to make “Pocket Fest” an annual short film festival. As our motto says, “From small things- comes something big”

Check out the videos on our site. Also, feel free to take a look at the pictures from our NY reception here! 

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NYLON STUDIOS MAKES A ROCKING TRACK FOR SUZUKI WITH NYLON COMPOSER AND IN-HOUSE SINGER NAT JOYCE PROVIDING VOCALS

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NYLON STUDIOS TEAMS UP WITH DIRECTOR NOAH MARSHALL ON THE LASTEST TOYOTA SPOT FOR SAATCHI SYDNEY

NYLON STUDIOS TEAMS UP WITH RADICAL MEDIA ON A NEW STOP-ANIMATION TV SPOT PROMOTING EARTH HOUR

Nylon Studios just completed the music for a new stop-animation spot for World Wildlife Fund's cause, Earth Hour. The cause has cities throughout 100 countries cutting power at major sites for one hour on March 26th in a stand against climate change and to promote sustainable living. Teaming up with Radical Media in LA for Leo Burnett Chicago, Nylon was tapped to create a composition which complements the animation portraying symbols of the movement.
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THE LOST THING, WITH A SCORE BY NYLON COMPOSER MICHAEL YEZERSKI, WINS THE OSCAR!!!!

Sunday night’s Oscars show delivered the prestigious award to “The Lost Thing” in the best animated short film category.  

The trailer may be seen here:http://www.thelostthing.com/

Nylon Studios’ composer Michael Yezerski wrote the music for the amazing 15-minute animated short that tells the story of a boy who finds an unusual creature on a beach and tries to find a home for it. The film was developed from the book of the same name by award-winning Australian author/illustrator Shaun Tan. It was directed by Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann and produced by Sophie Byrne.

Michael comments, “The music of the film needed to tell an emotional story, but also evoke the strange world of the ‘Lost Thing.’  In collaboration with Shaun and Andrew, I developed a non-traditional musical landscape for the score that would be both heartwarming and yet somehow a little unfamiliar, which reflects the themes of the film.”

In November, Michael won an Australian Screen Music Award for his work on the film. The film previously won top prize at the prestigious Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

NYLON STUDIOS CREATES MUSIC FOR NEW CANADA DRY TV AD

 
Nylon Studios recently completed the music and sound design for a new TV commercial for Canada Dry. Nylon teamed up again with young star directors, Josh and Jon Baker, aka Twin, to add sound to the spot, which portrays several young farmers working the fields at Ginger Farms.

The narrative takes a surreal turn when one farmer is excited to find a bottle of Canada Dry dangling from the roots of the crops.   Investigating further, another farmer unearths with a mighty tug a whole Canada Dry vending machine.

NYLON WORKING ON A NEW SPOT PROMOTING EARTH HOUR

Nylon Studios is teaming up with Radical Media in LA for Leo Burnett to create the music for a new stop-animation spot promoting Earth Hour.  The World Wildlife Fund cause has cities in 100 countries cutting power at major sites for one hour in a stand against clime change.  Watch for the spot to be released soon!

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NYLON STUDIOS TEAMING UP AGAIN WITH STEVE ROGERS ON A NEW VW TV SPOT

Nylon Studios is teaming up again with director Steve Rogers to produce a new spot for VW on behalf of DDB Sydney.   Last year Nylon worked with Rogers on a TV ad for Cascade Beer.   Watch for the new commercial to be released soon!

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BRAND CHANNEL PROFILES NYLON STUDIOS

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WATCH BEHIND-THE-SCENES FOOTAGE FROM THE NEW SMIRNOFF PURITY CAMPAIGN

Check out this video of Nylon's Simon Lister and Blair Joscelyne discussing how they created the music and sound design for the recent Smirnoff Purity Campaign spot. 

NYLON STUDIOS CREATES MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN FOR SMIRNOFF PURITY CAMPAIGN COMMERCIAL

Nylon Studios recently joined forces with JWT, Collider and Animal Logic to create a new spot for the Smirnoff Purity campaign featuring players from UK football team, Manchester United.

The spot features a football game that is played both under water and above. Nylon sound designer Simon Lister and composer Blair Joscelyne worked together on the intense sounds. Commenting on his use of sound effects, Simon remarks, “The soundtrack we created for the spot needed to blow you away. The spot shows a lot of impacts and hits of the ball among the players, and as they were playing the game in water, we used water explosions and water sound effects to reinforce the action on screen.”

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NYLON COMPOSER BLAIR JOSCELYNE COMPOSES MUSIC FOR QUIRKY NEW CASCADE BEER TV SPOT

Nylon Studios recently teamed up again with Droga5 and production company Revolver - this time to create a new commercial for Cascade Brewery Co. Titled "Brewed by Feel," the spot follows a chatty brewer biking casually along a dirt path through idyllic country fields.  The brewer barely pays attention to the path as he describes how Cascade beer is special as it is brewed by "the feel."

Nylon composer Blair Joscelyne created the spot's music and notes his creative approach, "I really wanted to get in touch with how the brewer was feeling as he rode along.  There is something very normal about a bike's slow stroll, but this spot has a slightly unsettling humor as he never watches where he is going. I think this normality, mixed with something a little off, was key to creating the music."

NYLON STUDIOS CREATES MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN FOR NEW AT&T SPOT

 
Nylon Studios composer Jack Milas recently wrote and performed the original music for AT&T’s new spot advertising their high speed Internet offering. The playful Indie pop music highlights the lighthearted tone of the spot, which features a man traveling around town on the back of a computer mouse. As the line reads at the end of the commercial, “Now everyone can explore the world from home.”

To add a “human element” to the quirky music, Jack incorporated as much live instrumentation and percussion as possible. He comments, “The instrumentation was fairly unique. The two main instruments are an old 50’s Silvertone acoustic guitar and pitched up Double bass put through a guitar amp. Also the fact that it doesn’t have drums was refreshing to work with.”

NYLON STUDIOS SOUND DESIGNER AND CO-FOUNDER SIMON LISTER SHARES HIS ADVENTURE FILMING AND PHOTOGRAPHING IN MOROCCO

Interviewed here, Nylon Studios co-founder/sound designer Simon Lister speaks about photographing and filming during his recent 8-day tour through the Moroccan desert on a motorbike. Originally from New Zealand, Simon has been in the audio industry for more than 20 years and worked on major campaigns with some of the world’s most renowned ad agencies and television directors. 

Read below for a detailed account of Simon’s trip.

INTERVIEWER: Welcome back! Is the experience of riding on a motorbike in Morocco unlike any other?

SIMON LISTER: If you want to ride on rocks, harsh arid land, dried up riverbeds and mountains, I guess Morocco would be the place to go. And that’s what I found. Morocco is definitely a hard, barren place and the country is all made upon rock. I arrived by plane into the town of Ouarzazate at 2:30 AM and met my guide who was going to take me on my off-road motorbike tour. I wanted to travel by myself on this trip since I wanted to be able to stop wherever and whenever I wanted and take photos without holding up a group.

NYLON’S MARK BECKHAUS INTERVIEWED BY AGENCY RECORD MAGAZINE

Agency Record magazine interviews Nylon Studios’ Mark Beckhaus on creating killer campaigns and the importance of music in connecting with the viewer.

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WATCH THE NEW BEHIND-THE-SCENES INTERVIEW WITH NYLON STUDIOS COMPOSER BLAIR JOSCELYNE

Check out this video interview of Nylon Studios composer Blair Joscelyne demonstrating the amazing range of vintage and unique constructed instruments that form Nylon's sound design and music compositions.

To watch the video click here

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NYLON STUDIOS COMPOSER JACK MILAS CREATES SOUND DESIGN FOR NEW O2 COMMERCIAL

Nylon Studios composer Jack Milas recently worked on a new spot for the European telecommunications company 02.

Check out the spot here:


The sound design for the track lightheartedly mirrors the humor in the commercial, which spotlights the convenient features of O2 products. One user on a clunky cardboard laptop sends an e-mail by manually writing a letter by hand and posting it through a hole in the computer screen; another user searches a contact in her cell phone through a physically attached address book.

Jack states, “I wrote the music for the ad as a song and wanted the sound to feel as if it were pulled from a CD rather than composed for a commercial. I would describe the genre as somewhere between Indie folk and pop.”

 

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7UP "SMILEY SPADE" TV COMMERCIAL STARRING DAVID SPADE FEATURES QUIRKY MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN BY NYLON STUDIOS

Nylon Studios recently created an original musical score for a new TV spot promoting 7UP, featuring actor and comedian David Spade. In the spot, Spade is in the middle of the tiresome process of unpacking a new apartment, but gets rejuvenated after drinking a 7UP--who doesn't? Commenting on the music/sound, Nylon Studios executive producer Mark Beckhaus says "The objective was to emphasize the change in Spade's mood before he drank the 7UP (pre-bubbly) to after he drank the 7UP (bubbly)."

Still from "Smiley Spade"

To enhance the spot's sitcom-like style, Nylon Studios composers used quirky instrumentation to poke fun and play up the comedy. Beckhaus continues, "The music style was in the style of a 50's sitcom theme, fun and energetic. It enhanced the crazy nature of the spot and Spade's mood change."

To watch "Smiley Spade" click here

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NYLON STUDIOS REIMAGINES ICONIC “HAPPY LITTLE VEGEMITES” JINGLE

Nylon Studios recently reimagined the well-known TV commercial jingle “Happy Little Vegemites” for agency JWT. 




Vegemite, the popular Australian savory food spread made from yeast extract, aired its first advertising jingle back in 1954.  The catchy, drum-beat tune rang out across Australia, and quickly became an iconic advertising classic.   This new spot combines a more simplified group-sung version of the song against nostalgic, black and white imagery pumped up with bursts of color.

Nylon executive producer Karla Henwood says, "We wanted to conjure sounds which remind people of the long history most Aussies have with vegemite from their childhood, while emphasizing how it remains a part of our culture today." 

She continues, “Our creative goal was to revitalize the original vintage sound, which was very military and marching band.   We introduced some sonic elements from scraggy 60s pop arrangements and an indie sound.   The idea was to keep it raw and scruffy but still shiny, similar to the Where the Wild Things Are and Juno soundtracks.”

During production, Nylon Studios collaborated closely with JWT creatives, experimenting with different musical styles to complement the visuals.    After considering a more formal orchestra and celebrity vocal talent, they found that the spot called for something different - which composer Jonathan Dreyfus describes as “a more communal, folksy sound, and less of a concert piece.”

To produce the vocals Nylon brought in many combinations of singers for the group-by-group mash-up heard on the track.  

Henwood concludes, “The most exciting part for the studio was simply working with such an iconic jingle.  Most of us have known that song since we’ve known words, so working on it was a massive buzz.   When you approach a well-known piece like this, where so many great composers have worked on it, it is important to take on board what came before without letting it overpower what you want in a fresh, new arrangement.”

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NYLON STUDIOS INTERVIEW WITH "ADS OF THE WORLD"!

Ads of the World's Ivan Raszl interviews Nylon Studios on music and sound design in online advertising.   

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