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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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The Poachers Pipeline – Al Jazeera Investigates

An Al Jazeera undercover team penetrated the network of dealers, agents and traffickers who profit from the multi-million dollar trade in rhino horn in Africa; an illegal business that is decimating the Rhino population close to the point of extinction. The motiongraphics helps define the different individuals involved and show how they relate to each other from poacher, to facilitator, dealer, importer and finally the customers. See evidence below or watch the full documentary via this link.
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