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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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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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British & Irish Lions: Uncovered

This is a title sequence we produced for Ben Uttley at Stamp Productions for his behind the scenes documentary following the preparation for the task of beating the All Blacks on their home turf and the ups and downs of the whole New Zealand tour. The titles were created with a multitude of subtle techniques from camera tracking, rotoscoping to careful blending of textures and clever transitions.
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Outbreak: The truth about Ebola – This World

The inside story of how and why the worst Ebola outbreak in history wasn’t stopped before it was too late. The map sequences here really help explain how the virus spread so quickly by tracking the location of it’s first victims or carriers and our shaded motiongraphics using ink bleeds increase a sense of this hidden disease spreading into different regions of West Africa. Directed by Dan Edge & Produced by Sasha Achilli.
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Night of Heroes

We’ve provided all the titles, stings and other branded elements for the ‘Night of Heroes 2018’, a Jewish News event celebrating Jewish heroes and community members. The evening was hosted by David Walliams.
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Football’s Wall of Silence – Al Jazeera Investigations & C4 Dispatches

Former youth football coach Barry Bennell, one of the top talent spotters in Britain with ties to major clubs like Manchester City and Crewe Alexandra, spent his days coaching children and his nights abusing them. Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit reporter, Deborah Davies first reported on Bennell’s crimes 20 years ago. She has befriended his victims and has a rare insight into their plight. Our efforts were spent bringing the specific details in various documents to light which exposed his deeds and often show the turning of a blind eye to his crimes on the part of the clubs and governing
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Spy Merchants – An Al Jazeera Investigation

We helped the Washington based Al Jazeera Investigations team uncover the murky world of selling surveillance equipment, often to anyone willing to pay, regardless of the government, end user or final usage. Titles, subtitles, as well as all the visual effects and explainer graphic sequences are spread over 47 mins which as not an easy feat considering that there’s barely a minute free of overlays and VFX. To see the whole programme which was beautifully shot and directed by Colin MacIntyre and brilliantly edited by Nicholas Dove, click on this link.
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Big Ben: Saving the World’s Most Famous Clock

Commissioned by ITN Productions to help the Director, Jenny Dames relate the complexity of the Big Ben (properly entitled The Elizabeth Tower) mechanics and the scale of the four-year refurbishment project which is undergoing a four year refit.
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Unreported World – Titles & Branding

Channel 4’s Hugo Ward commissioned us to rebrand the channel’s flagship documentary strand ‘Unreported World’. We thought we would create a series of silhouetted figures inhabiting a diverse landscape which would attempt to suggest that the programmes were concentrating on the normally faceless figures which the news often bypasses or certainly has less time for. See below.
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