See and hear the best music and sound fare that 2017 has to offer, culled from the year's quarterly Top Ten Tracks Charts. Here are the top five offerings as selected by SHOOT's editors–with work for Porsche, University of Phoenix, Nat Geo's "Genius," Gatorade and Tile.
1: Porsche’s “High Speed Orchestra”
Music/Sound: Yessian Music, Hamburg, Germany, and Detroit; “Winter” composed by Antonio Vivaldi, adaptation by Jens Schliecker. Uli Witt, sr. producer; Ingmar Rehberg, exec producer; Max Fritz, sound designer; Gerard Smerek, music mixing; Michael Yessian, head of production; Brian Yessian, chief creative officer; Audio Post: Yessian Music, Hamburg, Germany; Max Fritz, Michel Riecken, mixers; Agency: Grabarz and Partner, Hamburg, Germany; Production: Czar Film, Berlin; Bart Timmer, director
2: University of Phoenix “We Can Do It”
Music/Sound: Beacon Street Studios, Venice, Calif. Andrew Feltenstein, John Nau, composers; Adrea Lavezzoli, Leslie DiLullo, exec producers; Lindsey Lerman, producer; Amber Tisue, sound design; Kate Vadnais, sr. producer. Good Ear Music Supervision, bicoastal Track: “Dreams” by the Cranberries Audio Post: Beacon Street Studios, Venice, Calif. Amber Tisue, mixer; Kate Vadnais, sr. mix producer Agency: 180LA Production: Hornet, New York Dan Abdo, Jason Patterson, directors Visual Effects/Animation: Hornet, New York; Hana Shimizu, EP; Sang-Jin Bae, head of prodn; Kristin Labriola, development producer; Nikke DiCesare, producer; HyeSung Park, art dir; Stephanie Andreou, editor; Kendelle Hoyer, storyboard artist; Aiden Sugano, character designer; Christina Faulkner, designer; Riley Spencer, coordinator; Richard G. Kim, CG lead, ltg & render TD; Fred Kim, lead compositor; David Soto, Pedro Conti, character modelers; Michael Altman, character TD-animator; Javier Leon, Esau Perez, Marta Pomb, Javier Jaen & Isabel Garciad, environment modelers; Gabe Askew, FX TD; Matt Parent, Andrew Boccio, previs artists; Roman Kobryn, lead animator; Ozan Basaldi, Hee-Jin Kim, animators; Aaron Baker, Christine Kim, ltg & rendering; Elizabeth Ku-Herrero, texture & look dev. artist; Dark Hoffman, matte painter; Shawn King, colorist. (Toolbox: Maya, Nuke, Adobe Creative Suite, Resolve, Vray)
3: Nat Geo’s “Genius”
Client National Geographic/Genius Music/sound: JSM Music, New York Music supervision Joel Simon, chief creative officer Song: “Bad Romance” written by Lady Gaga and RedOne. Audio Post: Soundsquare, Prague Karel Havlicek, mixer Agency: McCann New York Production: Smuggler, bicoastal/international Ivan Zacharias, director
4: Gatorade’s “Sisters in Sweat”
Client: Gatorade
Agency: TBWA, USA
Agency Producer: Ian Mitchell
Creative Directors: Mark Peters, Kirsten Rutherford
Production: Tool of North America
Director: Jaci Judelson
Director of Photography: Danny Hiele
Edit: Matt Lee
Editor: Chris Murphy
Music Production and Sound Design: Pivot Audio
Executive Producers: Neil Devlin, Jonas Holst
Music Producer: Guy Amitai
Vocals: Dana Winter
Arrangement: Roma Otto
Sound Designer: Lawrence Horne
5: Top Spot of the Week: Mark Molloy Directs “Lost Panda”ย For Tile, Deutsch
Client Tile, Inc. Agency Deutsch Pete Favat, chief creative officer, North America; Guto Araki, executive creative director; Eric Manchester, creative director/copywriter; Neal Desai, creative director/art director; Jeb Quaid, copywriter; Vic Palumbo, director of integrated production; Dan Kaplan, executive integrated producer; Mariana Perin, integrated producer; Eryk Rich, music director; Chase Butters, music producer; Dez Davis, music coordinator. Production Smuggler Mark Molloy, director; Patrick Milling Smith, Brian Carmody, co-founders; Shannon Jones, exec producer; Gustav Geldenhuys, line producer. Editorial Work Editorial Stewart Reeves, editor; Keith Hamm, Josh Sasson, assistant editors; Marlo Baird, exec producer; Brian Scharwath, producer. Color Company 3 Tom Poole, sr. colorist; Alexandra Lubrano, producer. Post CG/VFX ALT VFX, Inc. Colin Renshaw, founder/VFX supervisor; Chris Fieldhouse, exec producer; Jess Calvert, producer; Mathew Chance, head of 2D; Chris Rentoul, animation lead. Creature Build/Panda Legacy Effects Alan Scott, producer. Graphics Lobo Mateus de Paula Santos, creative director; Luis Ribeiro, exec producer; Gabriela Leal, producer; Leandro Beltran, Bruno Ronzani, design & animation. Music Mophonics Track “Girl in My Dreams” Track courtesy of Stephan Altman, composer/creative director/performer Audio Post Lime Studios Mark Meyuhas, sound engineer; Peter Lapinski, assistant mixer; Susie Boyajan, exec producer; Kayla Phungglan, producer.