Tenbury Wells in a Day

“Tenbury Wells in a Day” video guide with original ambient soundtrack written and performed by Nick and Jane. This short film was created by Tenbury Photographic Club as a historical record of the town in the snapshot of just one day. Tenbury Wells is a small rural town in Worcestershire UK. Queen Victoria referred to it as “her little town in the orchard” as it used to be surrounded by cider apple orchards. The film is a combination of video and stills designed to capture the essence of Tenbury Wells at this particular moment in time 3rd June 2019. For the latest photo's from Tenbury Photographic Club see    • Tenbury Photographic Club 2021   Nick and Jane were commissioned to write and perform the ambient film soundtrack. It was an interesting challenge as the film has no dialogue and no action or emotion to portray. As the film is 20 minutes long we decided to write five separate musical sections to create a sense of steady motion. The film includes aerial footage provided by “Skycamera.co.uk” this footage appears throughout the film indicating the location from the air. As there is no dialogue we decided to add birdsong (recorded from the garden) during the aerial sections as a form of narration. We used some of the aerial sections as a segue points to move between the musical sections. The musical sections are: • 00:00 “Teme Theme” named after the river which flows through, and sometimes over, Tenbury Wells. Written and performed by Nick using a Collings OM2H acoustic guitar and Alembic Epic bass. • 05:31 “Tony’s Theme” Jane named this section after Tony Crabtree who is featured twice in the section of film – he is the lollipop man. Written and performed by Jane using Cubase VST instruments. • 08:43 “Stevie’s Fludde” this stretch of Tenbury Wells is notorious for flooding, so Nick thought a nod to the flooding in Texas might work. Written and performed by Nick using a PRS Custom 22 electric guitar and Alembic Epic bass. • 13:05 “The Ghost of Gordon” played on a glorious custom Fylde classical guitar which used to belong to a certain Mr Giltrap. Written and performed by Nick using a Custom Fylde classical guitar, Fylde Touchstone mandolin and a Hathway OM-1 Octave Mandola. • 18:46 “Credit where Credit’s Due”, a tune to back the credits and exit the cinema by. Written and performed by Nick using a Collings OM2H acoustic guitar and Alembic Epic bass. In addition to performing Nick and Jane are also songwriters and are available for Film Soundtrack Commissions. Facebook:   / nickguitartutor