Happy Slapper

As part of RTE’s new Storyland web drama competition, ten production companies were each given a limited budget to produce a first episode of a potential series and then after a public vote, the successful candidates will go on to make their next episode.

I was asked to be Music Supervisor by Screenworks for their short ‘Happy Slapper’. They wanted to use all Irish music so I picked a variety of songs by Irish musicians which I thought would gel well with the dark script of Happy Slapper. In the end, we whittled it down to just three songs ‘Something Growing’ by Katie Kim, ‘Multipass’ by Patrick Kelleher and ‘Cloud’ by Hunter Gatherer. As it’s only 7 minutes long, the songs aren’t used in full but what does features fits excellently.

I can’t embed the version that’s up on the RTE website so here’s the Directors cut:

Please head over the Storyland site and vote to get ‘Happy Slapper’ through to the second round. Voting is open until the 30th of March at 5pm.