The Jungle Group
Zoo Studios145 Wardour Street
London W1F 8WB
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Royalty Mews
off Dean Street
T +44 (0)20 7851 1234
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143 Wardour Street
London W1F 8WA
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Bookings
Transfer
MD – Graham Ebbs
Team
- James Cobbold
- Jim Griffin
- Scott Little
- Dominic Dew
- Chris Southwell
- Charlotte Martin
- Rosie Guard
- Jamie Brown
- Will Morris
- Jonathan Myers
- Nigel Manington
- Will Cohen
- Mike Bamford
- Nick Davis
- Gez Lloyd
- Johnny Lance
- Owen Griffiths
- Chloe Orriols
- Toby Griffin
- James Saunders
- Dave Poole
- Philla Marshall
- Matt Brace
- Kate Pengilley
- Graham Ebbs
- Graeme Elston
- Eve Bolton
- Claudia Page
- Chris Maclean
- Chris Turner
- Hass Hassan
- Rick Morris
- Claire Anstey
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Paddington Bear
Client DDB London
Producer Chris Styring
40"
Rock Band
Client McCann Erickson
Director Ulf Johansson
Music Composer David Bowie
Producer Jeri Low @ McCann Erickson & Philippa Smith @ Smith & Jones
Creatives Elliot Harris & Cameron Mitchell
90"
Part Of The Weekend Never Dies
Client PIAS Recordings
Director Saam Farahmand
Producer Grace Bodie & Sasha Nixon @ Partizan Soulwax
Trailer for the feature length documentary edited and mixed by Will Cohen.
Jump
Client Fallon
Director Johnny Green
Music Composer Esquivel ‘The Breeze & I’
Production Company Fallon London
Producer Jon Chads & Matthew Brown
Creatives Tony Davidson & Kim Papworth
90"
Jam
Client Fallon
Producer Jo Charlesworth
60"
Showreel
543"
Fireworks
Client BBH
Producer Georgina Kent
Creatives Matt and Dave @ BBH
30"
Scientists
Client Euro RSCG
Director Richard Morris @ MPC
Music Composer Saunders/Bamford/Cohen
Producer Fiona Plumstead
Creatives Gerry Moira
30"
Fingerprint
Client BBH
Director Daniel Barber
Producer Carol Oakley
Creatives Paul Yull and Adrian Birkinshaw
30"
Some recent news for you to read about:
11 July 2008 – Some of the more interesting bits and pieces we have been up to lately.
'Persil' BBH
Gez Lloyd and Mike Bamford kung fu'd their way around London with Sam, Dan and Brad from BBH with a couple of budding young stars for their recent Persil radio spots. The boys ran around Regents Park recording 8 year old Raul Griffiths singing Glenn Campbell's Rhinestone Cowboy and 5 year old Katie Wilson singing the Carl Douglas classic, Kung Fu Fighting. Next up was piling everyone on the 205 bus to entertain the passengers on the top deck with another rousing performance before finishing up in a busy square just off Liverpool Street entertaining the lunching city folk. The final result was two excitable kids, two exhausted recording engineers, two happy creatives and two very lovely radio ads.
Honda 'Jump' Weiden & Kennedy
The new Honda “Jump” TV spot is on air, after a year of planning and an amazing shoot in the Mojave desert. Directed by Johnny Green and conceived by Wieden and Kennedy Creative Heads, Tony and Kim, the film is a beautifully photographed piece, capturing the adrenalin rush of a mass skydive, as the Honda team create shapes in mid-air which symbolise the innovative features of the new Accord. Finishing up with a parachute display spelling out the word Accord, the film needed a Sound Design to reflect the grace of the skydivers, and the feel of a huge parachute team in action.
After creating the sound for the teaser spots which aired before the live Channel 4 jump – a groundbreaking tie-in which was broadcast the week before the 90” broke - Owen had a day and a half to finalise all the sound for the flagship film. Integrating his own carefully created Sound Design, largely recorded and treated in the studio, Owen built on the atmospheric early edits created by editor Neil Smith at Work. As the wind noise of the actual jumps rendered any location sound useless, Owen worked with the team to create a soundscape of violent engine and wind noise for the opening sequence in the planes, which juxtapose with the quiet, calm shots of Mr Honda in the Control Tower. Then the extraordinary mid-air sequences shot from the sky as the team descended at over 100 mph required a graceful palette of almost abstract wind noise, occasionally ripped by a diver scything through frame. All this had to work with the excellent Esquivel track sourced by Nick at Soundtree, which takes the piece to another level. Take a look at Owen's show reel to see for yourselves...
'Budweiser' Fallon
The band in Fallon's new Budweiser spots really did play most of their instruments with bud bottles. Recorded by Eric McConnell at his East Nashville studio, his colleague Richard Battaglia then spent three sleepless nights compiling the individual takes and uploading them to our ftp site so by morning the transfer boys could prep them for James Saunders to piece together and mix. This also involved adding extra detail to the tracks with Scotty overdubbing percussion on various lumps of wood and Will Morris tapping guitar strings with his Jungle pen. James Saunder's show reel shows all....
'Soulwax' PIAS RECORDINGS
Soulwax/2manydjs 1 hour feature film premiered at The Ether Festival at The Royal Festival Hall on Thursday 24th April to a sold out auditorium followed by the band playing live in the foyer. Directed by Saam Farahmand and filmed with one camera across a good deal of planet Earth, the film is pretty much a warts and all, snapshot of life on the road with one of the most popular bands around at the moment capturing all the chaos, humour and excitement of a world tour. The film will now follow the band on another 25 date world tour and will be released soon on dvd. Will Cohen was called up to take on the epic task piecing together an engaging soundtrack from whole heap of very different live recordings. An enormous amount of dialogue editing, serious amounts of fixing, foley, sound effects/design, mixing of some of the band's live multitrack recordings and a final mixdown.. The film also includes interviews with the band, various collaborators, behind the scenes footage and of course lots of music. Have a look at the Trailer on Will's show reel!
"The Observer - Book of Food" Weiden & Kennedy
Matt Brace from Marmalade recently cast the diet aside for some work on a nice stop motion animation short for The Observer Food Monthly. This basically involved a sizeable purchase from Berwick Street Market which Matt had to chop, peel, munch and swallow in order to create the sounds required for the animated items in the piece. Check it out for yourselves on Matts show reel...
"Trevor Nelsons The Lick" MTV UK
Jim Griffin has helped long-term clients MTV celebrate 10 Years of Trevor Nelson's The Lick. Trevor is the longest serving VJ on the UK feed of MTV and to celebratethe show'x tenth anniversary, Director Anna Snowman filmed pretty much most of the current British RnB, Hip Hop, Soul and Grime royalty dancing around with party blowers. Jim cut up the track, added some phatness to it and recorded Trevor's virtuoso performance on the Party Blower. It's a fun piece and if you look closely you may just see John Barnes. Take a look at Jim's showreel to find out more...
"Nissan Qashqai" TBWA
Owen has just finished a Global Nissan campaign for TBWA, directed by Danny Kleinman. Filmed in Argentina, the 60, 40, 30 and 20 second spots feature a whole city of buildings coming alive and playing with the new Nissan Qashqai. With smashing debris fists, arms made of fire escapes and scaffolding, plus cranes kicking the car around, the project provided excellent scope for exciting sound design. In fact, Chris Southwell even went to the lengths of temporarily “liberating” two lengths of scaffolding to drag around in the Jungle mews for a section within the film. Ironically the next day, workmen arrived for neighbouring restaurant Quo Vadis to erect scaffolding in exactly the same place! Owen's showreel tells all....
11 April 2008 – One to watch...
"Guinness" AMV BBDO
Chris Turner sent a team of crack audio operatives down to Twickenham for some recent Guinness work where they were allowed access to various parts of the stadium during a sell-out game to record crowd reactions as well as commentators in the gantry. They also went along to Rosslyn Park and bribed a team with a crate of Guinness to record close up player action and movements such as kicking, tackling, passing, gouging, stamping, pulling heads off and drinking Guinness from cans. See it for yourselves on Chris Turner's show reel!
"Nick Replay" Nickelodeon UK
Engineer Jim Griffin had the pleasure of working with sports presenter Chris 'Unbelievable' Kamara, commentating with his trademark flanbouyant style on snail racing for a series of promos for Nickelodeon's Nick Replay. Check out Jim's show reel to see for yourselves!
07 April 2008 – Hooray!
28 March 2008 – Golden Hour
No Golden Hour winner this week, better luck next time....
27 March 2008 – Hooray!
20 March 2008 – It's Easter!
Wishing everyone a Happy Easter, make sure you eat lots of chocolate! See you next week!
14 March 2008 – This weeks 'Golden Hour' Winner!
Congratulations to our next successful 'Golden Hour' winner - Ollie Courtney - Well done Ollie!
09 February 2008 – New addition to the family!
Congratulations to Adrian on the birth of his beautiful bouncing baby boy!
03 January 2008 – Happy New Year!
02 January 2008 – Well done Mike!
Congratulations to Mike on the birth of his brand new baby son!
21 December 2007 – HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
The Jungle Group wish you all a very merry Christmas, look forward to seeing you all in the New Year!
http://xmas.thejunglegroup.co.uk/card.htm
xx
04 December 2007 – Charity Triumph at The Eve Club!
Our charity night at the Eve club was a huge success. The total raised was £3'300 and the charity nominated by our draw winner Manuela Addis was Cancer Research, so a cheque is on it’s way as we write. A massive thank you to everyone who contributed their hard earned, and to those who helped out on the night.
29 November 2007 – Charity Club night !
Look forward to seeing you all at the fabulous Eve Club, Mayfair 8pm - 2am!!!
21 November 2007 – Star studded Autograph Book up for auction!
In order to raise money for Charity, we've produced an Autograph Album with a star studded selection of signatures by the likes of Ian Wright, Edith Bowman, Nigella Lawson, Joanna Lumley and many more... It's now up for auction so if you fancy your chances, follow this link and get bidding!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260185167912
15 November 2007 – Welcome back Mat!
Mat is now back in the Studio after the birth of his second beautiful baby boy.
01 November 2007 – BTAA's
Congratulations to all the winners at the BTAA's!
01 November 2007 – Well done Charlotte!
Congratulations to Lottie the birth of her beautiful baby girl!
01 November 2007 – Well done Matt!
Congratulations again to Matt on the birth of his baby boy!
18 October 2007 – The Jungle Group Christmas Charity Club Night
The Jungle Group will be holding a Christmas Charity Club night on 29th November 2007. It will be held at the fabulous Mayfair Eve Club and tickets will be £15. We've paid for the club, the entertainment, the drink and the food which means every single penny of ticket sales will go to charity - a prize draw, in 3 Lots, on the night will decide which 3 lucky charities get the proceeds. For more information and to book your tickets please contact Bookings at Zoo, Jungle or Marmalade.
18 October 2007 – Promax Awards
Best of luck for all our clients nominated in the Promax Awards, we'll see you there!
18 October 2007 – Lottie off on Maternity Leave
Wishing Lottie all the best for her new arrival x
10 October 2007 – You Can Now 'Smoke' at The Jungle Group!
Or rather The Jungle Group now has a new video facility called 'Giant' using Smoke HD which is being run by Jonathan Myers. Call 020 7534 5900 for bookings.
04 October 2007 – Eve to Join the realms of Parenthood
Congratulations to Eve - Who's baby is due in April next year.......xx
04 October 2007 – Caro Wins Golden
Congratulations to Caro at AMV for winning our prestigious Golden Hour this week.
20 June 2007 – Nickelodeon UK wins Gold at Promax Awards
Congratulations to Will Cohen and Gez Lloyd for their sound design on the 'See Something Say Something' Promo's for Nickelodeon UK, which won Gold at the Promax World Awards.
13 June 2007 – Simon Blaxland Wins Golden Hour
Congratulations to our next successful 'Golden Hour' winner - Simon Blaxland - Well done Simon
25 May 2007 – Yellow Pencil at D&AD Awards
Congratulations to Owen for winning a Yellow Pencil at the D&AD Awards in Old Bishopsgate for his outstanding achievement in sound design on Honda Choir.
22 May 2007 – Anni Cullen Wins 'Golden Hour'
Congratulations to Anni Cullen who won the very first Jungle Group 'Golden Hour'.
Book and confirm time over the randomly selected 'Golden Hour' and you will win that hours studio time for free....Well done Anni.
10 May 2007 – The Jungle Group Golden Hour
Book and confirm time over the randomly selected 'Golden Hour' and you will win that hours studio time for free - Good Luck with your next Booking.
01 May 2007 – Final 24 Wins Promax
Well done to Dave Poole for his work for Discovery on Final 24 helping to win a Gold Promax in Arabia and a Silver Promax in Africa.
23 April 2007 – Bronze Bulldog for Hogfather
Congratulations to Chris Mac and all at Marmalade for their hard work on the 'Hogfather' audio which has paid off with the retrieval of a Bronze Bulldog award at the Televisual Bulldog awards for Audio.
08 December 2006 – Jungle gets Refurb
Unbelievably, it's been 7 years since Jungle opened it's doors so it's time for a freshen up. We're getting a new look reception with improved client facilities plus a smarten up in the suites. Watch this space for the opening drinks invitiation!
02 December 2006 – Nice one Charlotte
Our Xmas dinner saw Charlotte win the Jungle Group Shorts Person of the Year Award. It's our award for the team member of the year, so well done Lotts.
01 November 2006 – Owen and Steve Sidwell done good.
Owen and Steve Sidwell's audio for Honda "Choir" cleaned up the Best Sound Design Award at both the Conch and BTA Awards. If you haven't heard it check out Owen's showreel.
04 August 2006 – Congratulations to Owen
Congratulations to Owen who won a Silver Lion at Cannes for his work on Wrigleys TV and to Graeme who won a Silver Lion for his work on monster.co.uk RadioRush out and buy the Cafe Ibiza album and listen to Toby's 'Parallel' track on this funky Ibiza Chillout album - well done Tobes!! Congratulations to Will Cohen who won Gold at the Creative Circle Awards for his sound design on 'Killer Katy'- and now been given the ariel award 2006 best leisure commercial! Unfortunately the award is MIA but it was a great achievement!! Hass left for his latest sabbatical on June 16th he will be returning on September 4th! Book in advance to avoid disappointment!! Owen has just finished the latest Honda "Choir" TV spots.
12 July 2006 – The Thick of it
CONGRATULATIONS to The Thick of it - who won best new comedy at the British Comedy Awards - well done to Chris Mac and Marmalade for all their hard work on the audio!!!