Director Research Task - Corin Hardy

Early years of Hardy 

With some school friends Hardy made a number of super 8 films, which saw his friends take the roll of zombies, werewolves and slasher victims. Throughout his teenage years Corin Hardy gained experience in sculpting  props, wardrobe and in the art department on a number of film, TV and theater productions. These productions included the Royal National Ballet's production of 'Dracula' and Columbia pictures 'First Knight'. Hardy studied special effects at Wimbledon School of Art, before going on to make his award- winning stop-motion short film in 2003. 

After this Corin was quickly signed to Academy Films where he has directed a number of music videos for a diverse rand of bands including McFly, Olly Murs, The Prodigy, Biffy Clyro, Paolo Nutini and Keane. 

Hardy's work has often been motivated by his obsession of storybooks, comics monsters and horror films.