This article is from page 12 of the 2014-04-08 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 12 JPG
AN ENNIS postman is on the verge of making a big splash in the film world with two new film credits to his name in 2014.
Local postie, Kerry Whitehouse, took up composing as a hobby a number of years ago and has been inundated with offers of work, including two films which will receive Irish releases in 2014.
Kerry worked on the sound effects and title music for Irish film ‘Somebody’s There’, which will released on DVD and Blueray across Ireland and the UK in June of this year.
He also completed the score for the American horror film ‘Slender’, which will be shown at a number of Irish film festivals in the coming months.
Indeed, Kerry has been in so much demand lately that he was considering giving up composition altogether because it was taking up too much of his time.
“It is going really well. So much so that I was considering packing it in before Christmas because I was just too busy.
“I work a full time job and the film composition has always been more of a hobby,” said Kerry.
“If the opportunity arose I’d go into it [film score composition] in a heart beat. I work in the post office and I get my fair share of bad weather going around the place.
“It is difficult though – even composers who are working on film shows in America often have another job. But if the opportunity arose I’d jump at it.”
Kerry is also in line to work on a new TV series which will deal with the events surrounding the famous Roswell alien sighting in 1947.
“I think one of the maddest things that I’ve been involved in recently is to do with the UFOs.
“I do music for a radio station in America and through that I came across Jessie Marcel, the grandson of Lieutenant Jesse Marcel – who was first on the scene at the Roswell UFO incident in 1947.
“He is putting together a new series for the Sci-Fi channel in America and I am in talks about doing that as well,” continued Kerry.