Wash Media is a London based production company creating distinct, stylish and informative films. With a background in the arts, a creative understanding of film and a portfolio of solid technical skills, Wash Media provides a unique service.
Wash Media is a production company and a partnership between Stephen Polydorou and Guy Wigmore. With film-making and music at our core we founded Wash Media to provide an informed, professional and flexible service. We are here to use a camera and an edit suite, to tell stories and convey messages, to understand our clients and their audiences, to use our skills and experience to make the best work possible and nothing else.
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OREN MARSHALL AND THE CHARMING TRANSPORT BAND
SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 2012
PhonePhotos - Kings Place
Look, it's young Pianist Joseph Moog and Louis Carraz, my favourite half French camera-op. We're all in Hall one at Kings Place shooting for Joseph, this was back in May or June and Kings Place was an excellent location. Have you been watching Borgen on BBC4? It's so good.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012
PhonePhotos - Glyndebourne
Should probably title these "Production stills" or something but they're far too amateur for that. Here's Steve by the lake at Glynedbourne. Notice the "pro" finger top left.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012
PhonePhotos - Roger Wright
After shamefully ignoring our terrible blogging record, we're back. Steve wrote a review of the year and I'm following him with some behind the scenes photos. Here's the first one, it's Steve grilling Radio 3 Boss Roger Wright. Notice Roger has matching socks and tie, that's why he's the Boss.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2012
2011 for Wash Media
2011 was a busy year for us at Wash Media. It began way back when in January, much like 2012 has just begun. The first project we worked on was a promotional film for the exhilarating dance company Theo Adams, and then a series of films co-produced with the Academy of Ancient Music including interviews with their Music Director Richard Egarr and long term collaborator Steven Isserlis. After filming a great performance by the Sacconi Quartet at the 100 Club as part of the Limelight series, we went on to work on one of the biggest projects of the year with Luke Crookes from Musicing. Musicing is a company which provides unique away days for businesses, getting people who might have very little musical experience to form an orchestra and put on a performance within a few hours of rehearsal. The results were fantastic for the first event, and Wash were there to document the proceedings and produce all of the promotional content for this exciting new company.
Following some films to promote the Britten Sinfonia's new scheme 'A Tenner for a Tenor', we began work on some films for the build up to the BBC Proms 2011 season. This started with an unusual film shoot on the steps of the Albert Memorial opposite the Albert Hall one rainy April morning with Benjamin Grosvenor and Alice Sara Ott, and continued through to producing the season preview film with Proms Director Roger Wright.
During the summer we made films for the excellent charity Results UK, the hidden gem that is Opera Holland Park, the virtuoso tuba player Oren Marshall and his Charming Transport Band, the singers of Glyndebourne Opera, the excellent coloratura soprano Albina Shagimuratova, conductors Enrique Mazzola and Stuart Stratford, cellist Jean-Guihen Queryas and pianist Joseph Moog. We also produced a series of films for the children's music book series Vamoosh which included a raucous but thoroughly entertaining morning in Sir John Cass Primary School.
To finish the year off in style, we made the 2011/12 season promo for the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, promotional video content for the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig's residency at the Barbican and a further series of films for the Britten Sinfonia's 'Tenner for a Tenor' campaign. We shot the BBC Symphony Orchestra in St Pancras for an impromptu performance of Beethoven's 9th, the Academy of Ancient Music performing in Cambridge, singer Luke Ritchie at Bush Hall for his album launch, and to bring us in to Christmas, we made an EPK for the Choir of King's College Cambridge from footage of their Nine Lessons and Carols service at King's College Chapel.
So a busy year all round for us at Wash Media, and one in which we got to work with some of the most exciting orchestras and artists in the country. Let's hope 2012 has even bigger and better projects for us to get our teeth into.
Happy New Year from all at Wash Media.
FRIDAY, JULY 8, 2011
2011 pt.1
It's the second half of 2011. Lot's of music came out this year that I (guy) love. Here is some of it.
