Narrative driven music for visual media.

*Hit the Wall* is a documentary that highlights the sport of handball in Ireland, once played in alleys across every town and village in the country and now kept alive by fewer than 10,000 players. Filmed over two years by director Ailill Martin, the film follows elite competitors including Caitríona Casey, Paul Brady, Conor McElduff, and Diarmuid Nash, with Ollie Cassidy guiding the story as narrator through a gruelling competitive season that captures the raw intensity and quiet obsession behind the game. The documentary premiered at the Cork International Film Festival in 2024, where it was nominated for Best Documentary Short, before broadcasting on TG4 in January 2025. It was self-produced by Ailill Martin and subsequently acquired by TG4.

*Reunion* is a short film that examines what happens when people come back together after time apart — and discover that proximity alone doesn't close the gap. The film sits in the tension between expectation and reality, between what was imagined and what remains. Colm scored the film with a palette of solo strings and sparse piano, letting the silences between notes carry as much meaning as the phrases themselves. The music avoids sentimentality, instead creating a quiet undercurrent that mirrors the characters' unspoken distances — warm enough to suggest connection, held back enough to acknowledge what's been lost.

*Elysian Siege* is a game score built around the collision of the sacred and the violent. The project demanded music that could hold both the grandeur of a world worth defending and the relentless pressure of its destruction — orchestral weight layered against electronic pulse, with moments of stillness cutting through the chaos. Colm composed the score with a focus on dynamic range: from sparse, reverberant textures in the quieter exploration passages to dense, driving orchestral and hybrid cues during combat sequences. The "Chapel" theme anchors the emotional core — a solo string melody that returns throughout, each time altered by the state of the world around it.