After graduating from Leeds University with a BA (Hons) music degree Vincent continued his studies at the internationally renowned Media School at Bournemouth University where he completed a masters degree in Music for the Screen and a post-graduate certificate in Sound Design for the Screen. He then moved to London and within a couple of years progressed to Head of Sound working in-house for a Shoreditch based post-production company. In 2007 after working on numerous film projects, Vincent decided to embark on a freelance career. He has worked independently ever since as a composer, sound designer and sound re-recording mixer establishing working relationships with countless film directors and production companies.
Vincent’s first major breakthrough came as a result of creating the sound design for 16 Years Of Alcohol the debut feature film directed by the ex-lead singer of The Skids Richard Jobson which won the Douglas Hickox Award at the British Independent Film Awards in 2003. After contributing music to Jobson’s second movie The Purifiers he completed his first feature length score in 2005 for the BAFTA Scotland nominated film A Woman In Winter, also directed by Jobson. The score received praise in the Film 4 review of the movie:
“Vincent Watts’ synth and piano lilts hit just the right note of reflective somberness…”
Vincent went on to write the score for Taking Liberties, the critically acclaimed documentary feature directed by Chris Atkins. The film was nominated for a BAFTA in 2008 and received a lot of attention in the press gaining several four star reviews. More recently Vincent created a chilling score for the British horror movie The Reeds which was selected to be part of the Horrorfest event in LA last year. He also wrote the music for Chris Atkins’ controversial second feature documentary Starsuckers, officially selected for the London International Film Festival in 2009. As well as scoring many short film projects Vincent has also written original music for a couple of BBC2 This World television documentary films. He also wrote the original score for a french documentary film due to be broadcast on the Arte channel later this year.
Vincent has worked on countless film soundtracks as a composer, sound designer and sound re-recording mixer. Many have won awards and / or been in competition at various international film festivals including London, Edinburgh, Berlin, Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival , South by Southwest and Sundance. His sound design work has also received praise in various film reviews.
Here are a couple of quotes:
“Especially good is the sound design…” Variety review of the slacker revenge movie Red, White and Blue.
“The film’s sound design is exquisite…” Film 4 review of the horror film Reverb.
