Creative team Original idea, Direction and Choreography – Tom Jackson Greaves Director of Photography – John Crooks Music and Sound – Dom Coyote Editor and film consultant – Brett Harvey Producer – Gabby Vautier Creative Associate – Nandi Bhebhe Design – Tom Jackson Greaves Animation – Zander Grinfeld at Venn Creative Production Assistant – Millie …

This educational resource pack will provide an insight into the ideas and creation behind the short film The Neon Shadow. As well as exploring how the short film was created, The Shadow Kit will also encourage students and artists to interact with it by following practical creative tasks and challenges to spark ideas for making. …

I’ve always been drawn to stories of otherness – stories of outsiders and of voices unheard. I have also always adored the magic of fairytales and their universal themes. Themes that resonate with the old and the young, the modern and the ancient and the joyful and the broken… On a drizzly autumnal Brighton day …

I have worked on and off with Kneehigh for a few years and have been lucky enough to collaborate with writer Annamaria Murphy on a couple of joyous projects. She is the queen of adaptation, the queen of creating magic and the queen of playful partnership! So, in December 2017 I brought together a group …

Story Beats Tom Jackson Greaves As we began plotting bringing the show to the stage in 2020, we had enough embers burning to bring everything together to make a full burning production. But as Covid-19 hit, we realised our story had to find a new way to be told and be kept alight. ‘How about …

My head was buzzing with images and references that could inspire the world of ‘The Neon Shadow’ – you can see snippets of some of these ideas from my scrapbook in the background of these pages… Alongside imagery I personally find that exploring and being inspired by films, comics and visual artists really gets my …

  The Movement Tom Jackson Greaves I adore working with movement and dance because it is a universal language that bypasses text, conversations, and backgrounds. We can all watch movement and imagine how it might feel in our bodies – the freedom of flight, the discomfort of tension or the joy of a boogie! I …

Exercise 5: Environment and Character Use your scrapbook to jot down your ideas or any answers that crop up in this section… Part 1: Explore the environment your character or characters may be in. Are they in a bedroom? A waiting room? A garden? How would they naturally feel inside of this environment? Comfortable? Warm? …

Exploring emotional states: I find exploring big emotional changes in the body can be very exciting to watch for an audience. They can imagine what it feels like for the character and go on an emotional journey with you. What happens if you pinpoint a big emotional change and expand upon it? In the film …

Dreams and Dancing: Let’s try make some bigger movement that delves into your inner thoughts. There is a sequence in ‘The Neon Shadow’ where ‘The Boy’ dreams he is dancing and meeting Edvard who lives opposite him. It is a sequence inspired by MGM musical movies and their use of ‘dream ballets’ to show their …

When I start to make music and art projects, the initial moment of creation tends to happen in different ways. But usually, things really get moving when I collaborate. When Tom asked me to write the music for the Neon Shadow, I got excited! He shared a lot of ideas and inspirations, from comic books …

Listen to the world around you. The Neon shadow is a silent film. That means there was no sound recorded at the time of the filming. I had to create the entire sonic landscape of the piece. That was great for me. I love it when I can treat sound in the same way as …