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Freefonix main characters |
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| Genre | Cartoon |
| Created by | Magnus Fiennes, Alex Tate and Simeon Warburton |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 40 |
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| Running time | 30 mins |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC One |
| Original run | January 4, 2008 – July 6, 2008 |
Freefonix is a CGI animated television series about the adventures of fictional band of the same name. To date, the show consists of 40 half hour episodes. The series was launched on January 4, 2008 and was aired as part of the CBBC strand on BBC1. The first 20 episodes aired on BBC2 during July/August 2008, with all 40 episodes being aired on CBBC over December 8 and January 2009. The series last played on the CBBC channel in December 2009.
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Freefonix's début album was released on 26 January 2009 through Freewave records a sub division of Union Square Music. The album was recorded by Freefonix and Produced by Magnus Fiennes. 5 songs were also produced with Lucas Secon (Jordin Sparks, Pussycat Dolls, Sugababes). A second album will not be produced.
Freefonix,created by Magnus Fiennes, Alex Tate and Simeon Warburton, is produced by Richelle Wilder and Chris Rice for Cinnamon Entertainment with Method Films and Toonz India Ltd|Toonz Animation. The series is directed by Jerome France and Pierre Alan Chartier, and features new tracks from Freefonix with some of the world's top record producing talents and features performances from Justin Hawkins (of The Darkness), Jamelia and Joseph Fiennes actor and brother of Magnus Feinnes.
Freefonix, a music based animated adventure series set in the future, is a classic battle of good vs evil but with a twist – using music and sonic energy as the weapons. Sonic technology has been developed, graphics can operate without emitters, and the new cool (or 'wix') teenage trend is to be a freewaver.
Freewavers are all those who truly understand the popular music of the time, one which incorporates strains of Pop music|pop, techno, rock music|rock and rap. It takes on something of an underground element (centring on The Bounce, a submarine dance/music club), due to ComaCo, the authoritarian corporation and evil organisation of the series which markets manufactured girlband music that Freewavers call 'plasticised prepsie'.
The main characters, BB, Freezbone and Mostart, are thrown together by the mysterious Sugar Che (Jamelia), they form a band called Freefonix in order to safeguard the most powerful force in the universe - the 13th Note - as well as save their world from a dark future that will be brought on through the teaming up of an evil force, which calls itself Vox, with the most powerful person in all of Los Bosmos, Mya De Zya (the head of ComaCo).
Freefonix features performances from singers Jamelia, Justin Hawkins, cricketer Alastair Cook, and Joseph Fiennes and musician Haylie Ecker. With a budget of more than 10 million pound sterling ($15 million), Freefonix is the largest commission by BBC for an animation. The scripts for Freefonix were written in Los Angeles and Toronto, and story edited by Jeffrey Alan Schechter, Baz Hawkins, and Will Schifrin. Voices were recorded in Ireland, the voice artists included Adam Longworth, Shelley Longworth, Marcel McCalla and Jules de Jongh.
Band members - Freefonix
Powers: Lead vocals. Can turn her voice into a beam of kinetic energy, but only when it is channelled through her customised microphone.
Powers: Electric guitar, that can generate long strands of power beams which can knock down his opponents. From a single piece of personal information he can craft a custom song which can allow him to make the person he's singing about do any thing he wants.
Powers: His unique, hand built, holographic synthesiser, known as the Soundshaper, generates percussion beats and bass-lines, keyboard sounds, squiggily noises, knob twiddling, sonic bubbles, frequalising fx and manipulating both sound, and via the 13th note, the fabric of space-time.