Companies first team on Beats by Dre campaign
Emmy-winning postproduction house Therapy Studios and bicoastal music production company Ring The Alarm have teamed up to form a partnership that will allow for seamless music and sound offerings to clients in the advertising, film, and television industries. The alliance will extend Ring The Alarm’s services to offer world-class mixing and sound design services to their clients via Therapy, and allows Therapy to connect their clients with Ring The Alarm’s creative team for original music.
The first project born out of the partnership was Beats by Dre’s largest campaign to date: “The Game Starts Here.” The three short films out of R/GA London are epic in scope, focusing on the captains of France, England and New Zealand’s rugby teams as they prepare for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
Ring The Alarm worked closely with Beats on the campaign from inception to delivery, which marked the audio brand’s first use of original composition in place of licensed songs. Ring The Alarm created a distinctive sonic landscape for each film, conceptualizing music that connected to each player’s story and creates a profound imprint of each nation.
Sound design and mixing were handed off to Therapy’s Eddie Kim and Jeffrey Fuller, who created a precise and delicate fusion of hushed intimacy interwoven with the din of team and countrymen.
Ring The Alarm was founded a year ago by Daron and Jenny Hollowell and Brent Nichols. They have worked with such brands as Lincoln, Visa and Gillette. Ring The Alarm shortlisted for 2015 Cannes Lions and the Clios.
Joe DiSanto is EP of Therapy Studios which is hot off two recent Emmy wins, from four nominations, for their work on the HBO docu-series Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways.
Review: Writer-Directors Scott Beck and Bryan Wood’s “Heretic”
"Heretic" opens with an unusual table setter: Two young missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are discussing condoms and why some are labeled as large even though they're all pretty much a standard size. "What else do we believe because of marketing?" one asks the other.
That line will echo through the movie, a stimulating discussion of religion that emerges from a horror movie wrapper. Despite a second-half slide and feeling unbalanced, this is the rare movie that combines lots of squirting blood and elevated discussion of the ancient Egyptian god Horus.
Our two church members — played fiercely by Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East — are wandering around trying to covert souls when they knock on the door of a sweet-looking cottage. Its owner, Mr. Reed, offers a hearty "Good afternoon!" He welcomes them in, brings them drinks and promises a blueberry pie. He's also interested in learning more about the church. So far, so good.
Mr. Reed is, of course, if you've seen the poster, the baddie and he's played by Hugh Grant, who doesn't go the snarling, dead-eyed Hannibal Lecter route in "Heretic." Grant is the slightly bumbling, bashful and self-mocking character we fell in love with in "Four Weddings and a Funeral," but with a smear of menace. He gradually reveals that he actually knows quite a bit about the Mormon religion — and all religions.
"It's good to be religious," he says jauntily and promises his wife will join them soon, a requirement for the church. Homey touches in his home include a framed "Bless This Mess" needlepoint on a wall, but there are also oddities, like his lights are on a timer and there's metal in the walls and ceilings.
Writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Wood — who also... Read More