VIDEO DESIGN: Singin in the Rain in the West End

Singin in the Rain made it's West End transfer this month to the Palace Theatre, taking over from Priscilla. Reviews were fantastic, with many giving praise to the video elements.

"this stage version makes brilliant and hilarious use of specially filmed footage of the movie the characters are supposedly making. this stage version makes brilliant and hilarious use of specially filmed footage of the movie the characters are supposedly making." ***** Telegraph

"elegant design by Simon Higlett and ingenious video by Ian William Galloway, which draws some of the biggest laughs" **** Evening Standard

"The movie inserts, in which we see the vehicles for silent film stars Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont as they try to make the transition to the talkies, are particularly clever." **** Guardian

"clips of film projected at regular intervals onto a screen at the back of the stage are a great touch, working brilliantly as a vehicle for comedy" **** Beaver

"Also memorable are the scenes where the film of The Deuling Cavalier is being shot. Clever use of filming on stage and then later seeing what was just filmed on a large screen, is genius." Here Is The City

VIDEO DESIGN: Tom Vek @ Shepherd's Bush

Here's a couple of clips from last month's show at Shepherd's Bush - oone from the Youtube fanbase, and one which Tom stitched together from some of the live visuals generated by the system.

VIDEO DESIGN: Eugene Onegin

We created a series of opening slides for the various location scenes of the ENO's Eugene Onegin, directed by Deborah Warner. The show will transfer to the Metropolitan Opera, New York, in 2013.

VIDEO DESIGN: The Lion in Winter

A simple video opening and historical introduction for the Haymarket's new production of The Lion in Winter, directed by Trevor Nunn and starring Robert Lindsay and Joanna Lumley.

VIDEO DESIGN: Lovesong

Lovesong is the new piece by Frantic Assembly, written by Abi Morgan. We produced it in Plymouth Theatre Royal in October and it tours until Feb 2012.

"With the elegiac mood built up through an ambient soundtrack and suggestive ripples of video, it’s all you can to do to fight back the tears"
- The Telegraph (****)

VIDEO DESIGN: The Missing

The Missing opened at the Tramway last night to a fantastic welcome. The show is a series of encounters that retraces and reanimates the final journeys of sons, daughters, sisters and childhood friends; the missing. Video was produced on a semi-transparent LED wall which moves up and down the auditorium.

Guardian review
Telegraph review

FILM: J. Smith Esq for Guoman Hotels 2011

I made this short for milliner Justin Smith's new 2011 collection in association with Guoman hotels - he made five different designs to be worn by doormen at the five London hotels. All sounds in the accompanying track are made from actual workshop sounds recorded on the day, and composed by Tony Wade at Sixteen.

J Smith Esq - 2011 collection for Guoman Hotels from Ian William Galloway on Vimeo.

VIDEO DESIGN: The Tempest

This opened on Tuesday at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, directed by Trevor Nunn and starring Ralph Fiennes and Nicholas Lyndhurst. Various layers of projection through gauzes to give everything a semi-transparent feel.

WIP: J Smith Esquire

I've been putting together the final bits of a short for J Smith Esq - a London-based milliner. We shot this on the Ikonoskop last week in his workshop.

VIDEO DESIGN: Singin in the Rain

Singin' in the Rain opened last night in Chichester to fantastic reviews - Daily Mail (*****), the Guardian (****) praised the 'exceptionally well done' video, and What's on Stage (****) say that it 'the clever video work...made the most of the medium and captures the awkwardness of the era'. Lovely.

WIP: Making of Singin in the Rain

Will Casela filmed this during our first Singin In the Rain shoot down in Parham House, West Sussex. It's the shoot for 'The Royal Rascal', the opening silent movie in the play.

VIDEO DESIGN: Seven Angels

Seven Angels is the first opera by Luke Bedford, and a new production by The Opera Group and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Opens tonight, and tours until the middle of July, ending with ROH2 and a recital at the Latitude Festival.