Excalibur

Trevor Alfred Charles Jones is a South African orchestral film score composer. Although not especially well known outside the film world, he has... composed for numerous films and his music has been critically acclaimed for both its depth and emotion. At the age of five, Jones already had decided to become a film composer. In 1967 he attended the Royal Academy of Music in London with a scholarship and afterwards worked for five years for the BBC on reviews of radio and television music. In 1974 Jones attended the University of York from which he graduated with a Masters Degree in Film and Media Music. At the National Film and Television School Jones studied for three years on general film-making and film and sound techniques. During this time he wrote the music for twenty-two student projects. In 1981 Jones wrote the score for the Academy award-winning short movie "The Dollar Bottom" and for the short "The Black Angel". Jones was soon after brought to the attention of John Boorman, who was in the midst of making his Arthurian epic, Excalibur .
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Ardmore Studios, located in Bray, County Wicklow, is Ireland’s only four wall studio. Opened in 1958 by then Minister for Industry and Commerce Seán Lemass, the studio has grown to house numerous Irish and international productions, including Braveheart, My Left Foot, King Arthur and... Veronica Guerin. In July 2008, Kevin Moriarty, Ardmore Studios boss, criticised Irish movies saying that: "there is an absence of a core structure, a surface storyline that allows the audience to navigate its way." In 1910 Sidney Olcott made his first visit to Ireland. Prior to this visit Irish film was made up of newsreels. His first film based in Ireland was The Lad from Old Ireland and was produced by Kalem. His next Irish film was called Rory O'Moore and was based around the Irish Rebellion of 1798. This displeased both the British Home Office and the Catholic Church. Most of his films at this time were filmed in Kerry in the towns of Beaufort, Dunloe and Killarney. Films of the time included The Gypsies of Old Ireland, Arrah-na-Pogue, Robert Emmet, Ireland's Martyr, You'll Remember Ellen and Ireland the Oppressed.
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