May changed this by writing and arranging the themes for television programmes, including Bellbird, Return to Eden, The Last Frontier, A Dangerous Life and Darling of the Gods.
May also composed the theme to the highly successful Countdown television series launched by the Melbourne Show Band.
[2] At the time of his death, May left his collection of music manuscripts to Queensland University of Technology.
The Trustees have determined that the scholarship will be provided for tuition in film-scoring at the USC's Thornton School of Music in the course known as the 'Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Graduate Certificate'.
[6] Mad Max won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Original Score.