Music and Sound Design
Su Tais is our Sound-in-Chief. From subtle textures to full cinematic scale, Su sculpts sound and score in service of the story. Her work spans genres and formats, composing everything from punchy beats and whispering atmospheres to lush orchestration and cutting-edge synth design. Whether it's emotional nuance or sonic impact, Su builds worlds you can hear. Learn about her influences and inspirations.
Su's soundscape breakdown approach for music scoring creates a shared language, empowering artists to precisely communicate thoughts and feelings through music. This includes what we call rehearsals, inspirational sound iterations that can be fit in as early as pre-production to support story development.
Versus
Versus is our sound studio. A fully equipped space fine-tuned for music composition, sound design, and audio post-production.
The studio features a Nord Piano, a Moog synthesizer, an Axe-FX III, midi controllers, and a variety of musical instruments like guitars, flutes, and dulcimers. It also carries a range of studio microphones for vocals and instrument recording. Powered by a Mac Studio Ultra, it runs Pro Tools and Logic Pro with a deep collection of electronic sounds, effects, and orchestration plugins like Vienna Symphonic Library, Izotope, and other industry standards.
🖖 I'm Z...
Z Tennyson is a filmmaker, colorist and VFX artist. He has been working on animation, lighting, color and digital media pipelines since 2001.
Fun fact: Before filmmaking, Z had a long career as a Designer and UX Engineer, he wrote books on Design Thinking and was part of the Augmented Reality team at Meta Reality Labs.
... and I'm Su.
Su Tais is a Berklee College of Music alumni music composer for film and TV. She's been sounding films, TV and games since 2017.
Fun fact: Su plays multiple instruments since she was a child, with classical piano being her main. Before transitioning into film music she worked in many A.I. projects at Apple in Silicon Valley.
Questions we are always asked
"We actually do care" policy:
Our "we actually do care" policy exists to support storytelling and crafty deliverables. Here's how it works:
We price per day to keep up with budgeting standards. If we notice the job could benefit from extra magic touches we will communicate and get consent from you to take a bit longer. We won't charge you for the extra care we proposed to put in. If there is no change to the agreed scope (amount of footage/ scenes) there is no extra charge.
Where are you located?
We are based in the UK, a quick 20 min ride from London Paddington. That said, we provide fully remote color, visual effects and music services for clients worldwide.
Do you work with commercial and music videos?
Absolutely.
What files I need to provide for Grading?
You'll need a picture lock cut. No changes to edit after grading starts. This will help you save money and achieve consistency throughout the grading process.
Remote Grading:
All you need to provide us with is a lossless Prores 444 (or similar highest possible quality) render of your picture lock cut.
Grading + Conform:
If you are supplying hard drives with RAW camera footage, we will send you detailed instructions on how to groom and export the timeline for grading so we can achieve the best results possible.
How many reviews do I get?
You will get two review rounds, and it should suffice for most projects. If you need more review rounds, we can provide them at an additional cost.
How Witchery came to be?
Just take a look at the disheartening post-production stories on Reddit. As filmmakers, we've been there. We've lost money, got our footage wrecked, and, in the end, had to redo it all ourselves.
Story-aware post-production work is not easy to find, and it is especially harder for low-budget productions. We want to help indie filmmakers tell their stories.
Tell me about the overall workflow.
We will be discussing story and moods at the beginning of the project and then meet for remote review rounds. Our client engagement workflow is completely automated and runs on top of widely adopted industry standard tools like Frame.io. No materials or notes are ever exchanged via email or files through third-party transfer sites. This also avoids messy, untraceable back and forth and keeps everyone informed, happy, and the project moving.