Posts by Paul Trainor

Generation Hate

Al Jazeera’s investigative team managed to infiltrate a Neo Nazi organisation which hold some radical ideas including the re-migration of all muslims in Europe. The team finds more regular links to thuggish behaviour and more worryingly strong links to Marine Le Pen’s National Front party. Our cgi were used you help reveal what happens inside the Citadelle bar in Lille and reveal some of it’s unsavoury characters. You can also watch the full 2 part series on YouTube.
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Cricket’s Match Fixers – The Munawar Files

Al Jazeera’s investigators have obtained telephone recordings that show Aneel Munawar ringing in details of fixes in 15 international matches to a notorious Indian bookmaker often featuring big named players from England, Australia & Pakistan. The graphics played an integral part in showing the different profiles in the match-fixing and their links to Munawar; the details of audio phone conversations and explainers showing how the spot-fixing occurs (see below). You can also watch the full documentary on YouTube. [/vc_row]
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Panorama – Syria’s Chemical War

Working with the BBC Panorama team we plotted at least 177 Syrian Chemical attacks on our map sequences; subdividing them into years, land or air attacks, different poisons and those corroborated by more than one official source. The end result was projected onto a large studio screen for pieces to camera. This was a joint BBC Panorama & BBC Arabic programme and therefore all the graphics were also supplied with their Arabic translations.
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Where are the Police? – Dispatches

Dispatches looks into the alarming stats that suggest the under-resourced Police forces across England and Wales are refusing to investigate certain crimes. Directed and Produced by Claire Burnett for ITN Productions. We built a large map of all the police force boundaries in the UK and designed various icons to represent each crime.
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Islamophobia Inc

This investigation looks at the more recent upsurge in attacks on the Muslim communities in the US, most importantly since the election of Donald Trump.
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Panorama – Hacked: Smart Home Devices

Smart devices and the latest technological gadgets give us remote control of our homes and our cars – but how safe are they? Reporter Fiona Phillips investigates… To help highlight the nature of the smart homes vulnerabilities we built a model of the owners house and textured it so it appeared as a normal flat illustration. We could populate the rooms with animated characters and numerous smart devices all transmitting data awaiting capture from the hacker. Directed and Produced by Christopher Hardy for Hardcash Productions.
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Cricket’s Match Fixers

Over 18 months of investigations, Medioto worked with Aljazeera’s Investigative Unit and helped reveal how criminal gangs bribe players and officials to fix matches and parts of matches – and make millions from betting on guaranteed outcomes. The initial inspiration for the designs came from Bollywood posters and obviously some of the title text echo the old fashioned scoreboards on the cricket ground. Apart from the obvious title-card, we built profile animations, explainers for the uninitiated cricket fans, test match chapter headings, phone call animations, document/newspaper sequences and the players and authorities ‘right of reply’. There’s a montage below and
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BP – Shifting to Gas

This film plots BP’s move towards more natural gas production in the future. Apparently there’s lower carbon produced from burning gas rather than oil & coal. Directed by Ewan Taylor and animated by Chris Weyman Jones & Paul Trainor picking up the slack.
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Exposure – Great Ormand St. Hospital – EGID

A department treating sick children within Great Ormand Street Hospital has been found mis-diagosing & over treating patients. This documentary from ‘Amazing Productions’ uses our animated explainers to demonstrate how Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disease (EGID) is diagnosed and the scale of the problem and number of patients treated by GOSH leading to the closure of this departments. The child-like drawn characters were animated by a traditional hand-drawn method which not only provides the context but also provides charm and warmth to lift the analytical nature of this investigation.
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The Oligarchs

Using styling borrowed from agitprop posters from Soviet Russia, Medioto helped Aljazeera’s Investigative Unit unravel a plot hatched by powerful Eastern European oligarchs to make millions of dollars from a crooked deal involving a web of offshore companies and international lawyers to raid US$160 million dollars under the noses of the authorities. The Oligarchs include an exiled gas billionaire guarded by Russian special forces, a Moscow property magnate and an Olympic show jumper on the run from Ukrainian authorities. Throughout these deliberately murky, opaque dealings our motion graphics hopefully simpilfy the processes involved in money laundering and the formation of
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