Create Studios is a state-of-the-art digital media centre, with facilities in the centre of Swindon, as well as a mobile studio in the form of a wonderful airstream bus. With its three strands:

• Create Professional
• Create Inclusive
• and Young Create

we are working with industry professionals, those with special needs and children and young people, through a range of activities involving film, animation, web games, sound recording, photography and more.

News

Hot on the heels of our success at the First Light Awards this year for Best Documentary, YourFilm, Create Studios’ young peoples group, has received a grant of £5,000 to facilitate a collaboration between themselves - a group of aspiring young filmmakers - and group of autistic pupils from Crowdy’s Hill Community School.

Working alongside the 25 young people aged between 12 and 19 is Professional Film Director, Gurchetan Singh and Production Manager, Elise Hurcombe. They will help them create a documentary which will give an insight into how young people living with autism view the world.

Energy Without the Sun

The winners of Frequency Airborne Battle of the Bands, Energy Without the Sun, recorded their first album at Create Studios in November 2008.

Energy Without the Sun are a four-piece band from Chippenham. They won five days in Create Studios' state-of-the-art Sound Studio, working alongside top producer Barry Andrews (ex XTC), a Mac Book Pro & Logic Studio Software, courtesy of Western Computers. Mediaplant will provide the winning band with 1000 copies of the finished CD to take the next steps in their career development.

They competed against 40 other bands and two others in the final heat of the Battle of the Bands competition that was run by Frequency Magazine and Brunel FM.

The band said, "We are delighted with the tracks we did with Barry at Create. It's been so good. We managed to get far more done than we thought and are now at the mixing stage."

Band members are Ali Hoff - Guitar & Vocals, Mark Henly - Bass & Vocals, Simon Garraway - Guitar & Vocals, Steve Jones - Drums.

The album is called Good Clean Dirt.

They also secured a late sponsorship deal from Mark Pepperall Photography, in association with Hot Pepper Design Ltd, who are based at Create Studios, for a photo shoot and album cover design.

For bookings and hire rates contact Create Studios on 01793 465399.