Archives for Title sequences

Football’s Wall of Silence – Al Jazeera Investigations & C4 Dispatches

February 19, 2018 | Comments Off

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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Unreported World – Titles & Branding

April 15, 2017 | Comments Off

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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Rolex Minute

February 19, 2017 | Comments Off

We have created the new branded idents for Rolex’s sporting roundups from their five featured sports; Motor racing, Tennis, Yachting, Golf & Equestrian sports. The idents feature animated abstract patterns based on a Rolex watch face, as well as sporting pictogram designs. Everything is overlaid on key moments from recent tournaments. Original design by Manuel Succi at Medioto. Commissioned by Evoke Films.
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When Television Goes Horribly Wrong

October 4, 2016 | Comments Off

For this programme we built our own CGI television studio which formed the backing for celebrity interviews and off course we created the large hanging studio title which breaks away from it’s supports and crashes downwards providing some indication of what is to follow in this 3 hour extravaganza.
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Stealing Paradise – An Aljazeera Investigation

October 4, 2016 | Comments Off

Al Jazeera investigates the islands of Maldives and finds that behind the idyllic destination that attracts so many honeymooners lies endemic corruption. Evidence of this dark side was uncovered on 10GB of data extracted from the former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb’s mobile phone. Our motion graphics were used throughout to detail the SMS conversations, explain how the embezzling works, provide profiles of our main characters and generally to add some stylish welding of the storyline. See evidence below or watch the full documentary here.
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Brexit: The Big Debate Live

October 4, 2016 | Comments Off

Presented by Alastair Stewart, this studio debate required titles, bumpers, straps and large scale printed panels designed by Toni Marshall. An ITN Production for C4.
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The Final Referendum Debate with Jeremy Paxman

October 4, 2016 | Comments Off

Printed panels, cue cards, animated chapter stings, titles, bumpers & animated namestraps formed our contribution to the big C4 debate on the eve of the EU Referendum with Paxo. Everything was built using very simple elements so as to keep the designs quite abstract and unbiased. Moving arrows, UK outlines, stars, stripes and printed dot textures were overlaid allowing multiple colours and patterns to emerge and provide a quite vibrant backing for the nuances of the debate to occur. An ITN Production for C4.
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30 Greatest Disaster Movies

September 21, 2015 | Comments Off

An ITN production for Channel 5. We created a CGI Cold War-like tunnel setting which the camera travelled down onward to the bunker’s large air-tight doors where the title was framed. Countdown clocks and various multi-faceted backgrounds were created to encompass all disasters from Shipwrecks, astroids to plane crashes and alien invasion. Available for a while on 5 on Demand.
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Simon Schama’s Face of Britain

November 7, 2015 | Comments Off

An Oxford Film & Television production for BBC 2. Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture, revealing the stories behind the most compelling images in British art. The series is also accompanied by complementary exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Our title sequence emphasis the paintwork, the photographic moment and the power of the human gaze. Each programme focuses on the themes of Power, Love, Fame, Self and People. Available for a while on the BBC’s site.
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