Archives for Map Sequences

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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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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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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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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Conspiracy Theories – Who shot down MH17

A BBC production, where our graphics helps examine the evidence behind the various theories behind the downing of Malaysia Airlines Fight 17. From looking at doctored images, to proving the validity of real photographs, this project was quite a challenge and I’m guessing the documentary will be forensically poured over by the conspiracy theorists. Please look at some of the highlights below, emphasising our motion graphics input. Produced and directed by Mike Rudin from the BBC.
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The Queen’s Big Night Out

The story of the night when the future Queen Elizabeth II slipped out of Buckingham Palace with Princess Margaret to party in secret on the streets of London. Medioto provided pop-up maps showing the route the Princesses followed through Central London celebrating VE day. We also composited some of the archive material to emphasis the documented Conga-line which the royal party joined through the Ritz on Piccadily. Directed by Mike Wadding for Blast!  
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Panorama – Terror on the beach

On 26 June 2015, 38 tourists, 30 of them British, were gunned down in a brutal terror attack on a Tunisian beach. Panorama’s Jane Corbin hears the extraordinary stories of that day.
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