Plastic Zoo

A short film summing up the days events at SoundBytes: Unconvention preston. Featuring wise words from UK Indie Touring, Song By Toad and Hospital Records.

Music by The Travelling Band

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We teamed up with the wonderful men and women of Edit 19 to create this 30 second animated TV advert for mobile phone recyclers Envirofone.

We were brought in to illustrate this script voiced by Inbetweeners’ James Buckley.

Animated music video for ‘The Devil Woman Living On Our Street’ by Aidan Smith and his Indulgent Friends

Illustrated & animated by Sam Alder

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We set up a load of projectors and filmed the handsome men of epic rock band Embers to make this video for their track ‘Tunnel Vision’

Cameras: Luke Bather, Nathan Bather, Sam Alder
Edit: Sam Alder
Director/Producer: Sam Alder & Toby Potter

You can make Embers related purchases here: embersembers.bigcartel.com/

Them lovely lads The Riptide Movement got in touch with the idea of creating trilogy of animated music videos, so along with Animator Scott Lockhart we got to work.

Here is part one of the trilogy, ‘Without You’.

Designed: Sam Alder
Animated: Scott Lockhart
Directed/Produced: Sam Alder
Story: The Riptide Movement

You can purchase the single here:
itunes.apple.com/ie/album/without-you-single/id563760053

Music video for ‘Po’ By O Emperor. We co-designed and directed this animated music video for the wonderful O Emperor. We created a set of illustrations which were then passed on to animator Jono Candlish-Wilson who added is own twist to the designs before bringing it to life.

As well as collaborating on the concept and storyboards for this national TV ad for Blacksticks Cheese, we supplied our friends at Edit 19 with a whole load of illustrations, which they used to produce this dynamic animation. The music was composed and recorded by Manchester’s own Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six.

We provided a whole load of illustrations for this lovely advert put together by our friends Edit 19. We prepared the hand drawn illustrations in Photoshop and those clever souls made it move!

Produced by Photolink, we were commissioned to edit this promo video for JD Woman’s Autumn & Winter collection.

Filmed on our faithful and ever-giving Hitachi VHS camera, this end of the world ramble took us to the beautifully eerie Formby Beach, where our favourite garage rockers Brown Brogues slowly but an end to an unfortunate guitar’s life!

Selfishly, we filmed this for ourselves. We went into the woods and jumped up and down until our shins could take no more.

We were commissioned to document this fantastic event by Manchester’s Unconvention. The premise to the event was that eight bands, along with three hundred volunteers and sixty industry experts, would produce an album…in a day. We were there to document the process and enjoy the amazing atmosphere and working environment.

in 2010, we were commissioned to produce the official In The City Festival promo film. We filmed live panels, band performances as well as the good time vibes of the festival itself.

Commissioned as part of Ghost Outfit’s ‘Young Ghosts Project’, this video was filmed on an old VHS camera. We chased Ghost Outfit around Manchester’s city centre as they terrified the public in their Ghostly costumes.

This music video was animated using After Effects by our cohort Scott Lockhart and was heavily inspired by German expressionist aesthetics and shadow puppetry.

The initial idea behind this video was to film Mark & Ben from Brown Brogues drinking “until they puked”. However, as our evening at The Swinley Working Men’s Club unfolded, we got a whole lot more than that. There was dancing, romancing and even a high kicking cabaret maniac. The resulting music video has been seen at SXSW and provided Hew Stephens himself with “lols”!

We made this video for Aidan Smith and his overlords at Humble Soul in 2009. We combine live action and stop motion animation techniques to produce this fun, family friendly, allotment reveling tour de force!

Music video for Mammal Club‘s ‘Painting. We collaborated with Love & Disaster to create this VHS/Digital hybrid.