December 2022 – Heather Fenoughty

23 December 202224 August 2023

Music on Telly – Blogmas #11

Red Riding Hood After Ever After Poster (final)

The lovely project I worked on during the summer is being broadcast on UK telly tonight. It’s streaming on Now TV. Red Riding Hood: After Ever After is live, so it’s ok for me with the powers that be to talk about it now.

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15 December 202224 August 2023

Winter Walk – Blogmas #10

Redmires Reservoir on a cold, sunny winter's day | Photo by H Fenoughty

Just a quick one today (and, as promised, way more optimistic!). This morning, a bunch of lovely friends, a magnificent dog, and I went on a brisk, refreshing and death-defying (tres icy 🥶) walk around one of the local reservoirs. Sheffield was rather dashingly handsome today.

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14 December 202224 August 2023

AI, Streaming, Royalties, Sustainability… Blogmas #9

DALL·E - a piano in the middle of a storm on the surface of planet jupiter

The genie’s out the bottle with AI. We’re moving to post-broadcast, streaming-only media consumption. Whether you look at the dwindling royalty system for creators, rights grabs by commissioners, the many dubious ethics of creating datasets, or any other de-valuing of a human's creative output in the 21st century, one thing is true: I’ll say it again, it is all unsustainable.

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13 December 202224 August 2023

Final Draft – Blogmas #8

silver stars on a black background | Photo by Kier in Sight

You know how it feels to send off the final draft, don’t you? I always forget. Leading up to it, I always think of how celebratory and different I’ll feel. How much lighter, but also how accomplished and even… reliable? I feel reliable in a really solid, content way. As if I set out to …

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10 December 202224 August 2023

Filling the Creative Well – Blogmas #7

White Snow with Footsteps - Photo by Liudmila on Unsplash

The well is the store of creativity, the depths of which I like to plumb on a fairly regular schedule.

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9 December 202224 August 2023

Blogmas number whatever

Woman walking in alley - Photo by Bruno Martins on Unsplash

Missed a few days because life. You know how it is, I expect. Give yourself an audacious goal and go in with guns blazing and all the commitment and enthusiasm and then suddenly... ... there’s a day of meetings and peopling and chatting and meeting a celebrity comedian (!) and travel and timetables and getting …

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5 December 202224 August 2023

The Penultimate Draft – Blogmas #5

I’m at (fingers crossed) the stage of the penultimate draft on this project. Between the last draft and this one was a massive overhaul in tone to really shift the vibe of the film to a far more dark, serious and ominous arena.

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4 December 202224 August 2023

The Perfect Hot Chocolate – Blogmas #4

Composing Music for Theatre with A Hot Chocolate In The Music Studio

It’s essential to stay cosy and warm in the studio on these dark, wintry, chilly days, especially with the cost of fuel and the carbon footprint of gas-powered central heating etc, etc. Join me in getting wrapped up warm in many fleeces, fingerless gloves, a hot water bottle with a blanket around you after making …

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3 December 202224 August 2023

How I structure my week – Blogmas #3

It’s Saturday, so it’s a bit weird to be sitting down to type this out. I rarely work weekends - unless it’s on a play, which tends to shift work weeks to include Saturdays and ditch Mondays instead - but either way, having two clear days off a week is essential for me. If I …

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2 December 202224 August 2023

A Good Director – Blogmas #2

Two Robot Toys Holding Pencils by Heather Fenoughty

I got feedback! It is as I suspected; time to evict the lovely... which gives a very different tone to some of the scenes, but it’s like I’m watching a new film. There are some subtleties and nuances to the acting and direction that weren’t coming out before I started putting ominous dark drones under …

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