Children First! Singapore International Festival

Dynamic New Animation have returned from the Prudential "Children First!" Theatre Festival in Singapore. They were asked to perform and represent the UK with their early years puppet theatre production "Ball Pond Bobby" featuring the music of Verbal Vigilante Music.

Since its inauguration in 2000, the festival has showcased all manner of professional and first-class performances and art forms ranging from mask work, physical theatre, story telling, drama, comedy, circus theatre, dance, puppetry, mime, music and even short films!

The festival has hosted performers originating from all corners of the globe: Argentina, Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan, the Czech Republic, Israel, Korea, Italy, Peru, Singapore, South Africa and the USA.

Prudential Children First! Singapore International Festival for Children has become the dedicated Arts event for children and a leading international Children’s Arts Festival in the South East-Asian region.

The Festival is an annual hallmark event in Singapore not only for children, but for parents and teachers who have all come to enjoy the performances and to further understand the benefits by exposing the young to the Arts.

Annecy 2008

We have just received news that Linda McCarthy's animation "Small Birds Singing" has been included in this years Annecy International Animation Festival. We had the pleasure of working with Linda on SBS last year. It's great to see something so quintessentially English being screened at a French Animation Festival! Linda has just set up Tiny Elephants and is currently working on a series of "Small Birds Singing" shorts, which we're looking forward to working on this year.

Annecy has been showcasing the very best in animation for over 45 years, making it the industry's leading international competitive festival. The capacity to present and promote animation in all its different forms has made Annecy a world-wide point of reference for the animation industry.

Also, included in this years festival is Katie Steed's "Death by Scrabble", which is doing very well on the festival circuit, and is currently up for an RTS Award.

Good Luck to both!

Verbal Vigilante Music

New Music Strategies - The Online Music Bible?

A couple of weeks ago Verbal Vigilante Music attended the Northern Edge Music Masterclass at the Future Works in Manchester. A select number of music businesses, mainly consisting of Record Labels were invited to take part in the day long event.

It was a schedule packed full of Industry speakers dissecting and analysing their own marketing campaigns for artists ranging from the Pigeon Detectives to random Dub-Step acts, who's names at present escape me!

Organised by AIM, it was an invaluable insight into the strategies that are not only emerging but being implemented by some of the more discerning and forward thinking Production Companies and Record Labels.

The highlight for Verbal Vigilante Music was the talk given by Andrew Dubber, the author of New Music Strategies. His comparatively short speech was a summation of his thesis on how to utilise online technologies for reaching your audience, building a relationship and ultimately selling to them.

His take on how to approach and use the technological tool, that is the internet, has influenced us and after reading his free E-book "20 Things You Must Know About Music Online" you are left thinking "Why didn't I think of that!?". It's succinct and just makes sense!

Check out his sight, download the E-book, Sign up to the RRS feed and learn.

New Music Strategies - The Online Music Bible? We think so!

Verbal Vigilante and Viva TV

Last week VVM met with the Northwest's newest and best-est digital broadcaster, VIVA TV. We got a sneak preview of the content for the Channel and without giving too much away, we are all in for real treat! 

A new television experience for the Northwest. Launching in 2009, VIVA TV will be offering wide range of entertaining programmes, that you can watch whenever you want.All of the programmes wiil be produced by VIVA TV's team of broadcast professional using creative ideas and input from the community.

They are set to work with some big name writers and have a great catalogue of material ready for us, the viewers, when they go live next year!

Definitely watch this space www.vivatv.co.uk

RTS Nomination for "Death by Scrabble"

Congratulations go to the talented animator Katie Steed! Her short animation "Death by Scrabble" has just been nominated for a Royal Television Award.

The nomination follows a string of world wide festival screenings for the film and inclusion on Sky's Propellor TV.We composed the soundtrack to the short and are proud to be involved with the film! So fingers crossed for Katie and here's to many more successful collaborations!

Together with fellow animator Aaron Wood, Katie has set up an animation Production Company Slurpy Studios. You can check out some of Katie's work, at www.slurpystudios.com