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About Me

About Me

Indie production partnership based near Brighton, UK

Set up and run by Producer Sam McCarthy and Director Laura Seymour, Open Book has experience producing animation & live action for film, tv, games and music videos. Key to a good production of whatever scale is always good story and working with people we like and respect, plus a keen eye for a strong aesthetic using texture and colour..

Recently completed low budget music video for Brighton based unsigned singer/songwriter Victoria Darby, 'Still' is a stylised live action & animation fusion involving plenty of green screen.. Also the focus of a 'making of' documentary filmed by students from Boundstone Community College in Lancing, as a pilot project championed by the Arts Council and Creative Partnerships.

Open Book represents a whole collection of talented artists from editors to animators, and always works to put together the right person with the right job whether it means managing a team remotely on a low budget animated short or placing a single artist in a studio.

Ever keen to bring people together, Open Book also runs and manages a regular monthly animation screening event in Brighton called Paper Bag. Housed in the Joogleberry Playhouse, the night brings together animated shorts from around the globe based on a theme and live local musicians with the aim to help promote and build the animation & film community in Brighton and maybe even lead to a bigger festival down the line...

Music Video Director Credits

Other Director Credits
Paper Bag 2008
Fuhrer's Legions - Stoke your Fires Animation festival 2008
Still...the making of - Access All Areas 2008
Still...the making of - Heart of Gold festival 2009
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Music promo for Richard Anthony Jay's track 'Gone...but not forgotten' featuring Grammy-award winning Davy Spillane. This promo was made entirely using found and public domain footage and materials...
posted on Nov 18, 2008
thanks lighthen... we wanted
Comment by openbook on Still - Victoria Darby (Radar Music Video post)
thanks lighthen... we wanted to suggest that she was offering him the message through the medium and that he was so blinded he could only see his own view of her... ...
posted on Aug 27, 2008
this is so much fun... this
Comment by openbook on CSS - Alcohol (Radar Music Video post)
this is so much fun... this should be getting a higher rating... surely a contender for a radar pick - caroline?? ...
posted on Aug 26, 2008
another fun piece of
Comment by openbook on Flipron - "Raindrops Keep Falling on the Dead" (dir: Alex de Campi) (Radar Music Video post)
another fun piece of work... keep 'em coming alex :) ...
posted on Aug 26, 2008
what fun... really enjoyed
Comment by openbook on "Apart of Me" - the Real Tuesday Weld feat. The Puppini Sisters (dir: Alex de Campi) (Radar Music Video post)
what fun... really enjoyed it..so camp. thanks :)...
posted on Aug 26, 2008
lovely work... a wee treat -
Comment by openbook on "Gone Fishing" by Second Person (Radar Music Video post)
lovely work... a wee treat - thanks...
posted on Aug 26, 2008
Still - Victoria Darby
by openbook (Radar Music Video)
‘Still’ is the first music video for Brighton-based singer/songwriter Victoria Darby, produced by Sam McCarthy & directed by Laura Seymour at Open Book. A fusion of live action and animation with ...
posted on Aug 8, 2008
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